Talk:Orbiter/@comment-50.69.17.208-20160328234509/@comment-4448946-20160705060207

If you look at the concept art of the orbiter you can see the liset docked into a port on the front. Assuming DE is still working off that orbiter concept, the Liset is the only landing craft that would be capable of docking to the front of the Orbiter and as such the only landing craft capable of acting as a command center for the Orbiter.

This would mean that when you take a different landing craft to missions you're leaving the Liset in place on the orbiter and launching from some hangar or bay area in the storage sections of the ship. At the end of the mission you return to the liset because it's the command center.