Talk:Mantis/@comment-76.101.137.100-20151017023021/@comment-25240495-20151020235511

The orbiter part is partially true, the Liset was originally supposed to be one part of a two part craft. It was talked about back a long time ago in a Devstream in which the second part's concept was shown... which has the Liset dock to IT. It was a much larger blocky ship type thing that the Liset docked too and was concepted to have additional space and components in addition to the Liset as it was released. If I remember right, DE said the large Orbiter (what the Liset docks to) would be released at a later date, but I don't know what has become of this concept. It may still be a work in progress or it could be scrapped by now.

This means that no, the Liset is not the Orbiter, it's the drop ship or "landing craft". Also notice that the interior window on the front of the ship you walk around in has the same shape and look as the front window of the Liset, as well as having the interior be roughly the same shape as we can see from the outside on the original Liset.

I think the fact that the Mantis has an identical interior is either something that was overlooked, or more likely, was just lazy on DE's part. But I could be wrong.