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By Professor Scott (Mathew McCalpin)
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From the Glossary under Capturing:

Brigs
Some cards allow you to add a Brig to a ship or facility. While you control the ship or facility, you may move captured personnel into and out of the Brig during your turn (while in the Brig they are held but not escorted). If your opponent commandeers or assimilates the ship or facility, their personnel may subsequently release any of their other personnel held captive in the Brig (if present).


There is no limit listed.

The Rulebook offers no additional limit information:

Capture:

Some cards allow you to capture your opponents' personnel. Captives are disabled.

Upon capture, captives immediately relocate to one of the capturing player's crews or Away Teams at the same location, if possible. That team immediately assumes custody and begins escorting the prisoner, who is considered held.

If you don't have any teams at the location, the card that caused the capture remains on the table as a trap card. Place the captured personnel under it; she is now held. Once your crew or Away Team arrives, they may assume custody by either being present with the prisoner or beaming her from the trap card to their ship. The trap card is now discarded.

An escorted prisoner may be moved like an Equipment card. Each crew or Away Team may escort any number of captives. You may not initiate battle against personnel you have captured. If the ship or facility has a brig, the captive may be placed there. (She is still held, but is no longer escorted, which affects a few cards like Suicidal Attack.)

Captives that are held (or Brainwashed) can only be rescued by a card that specifically rescues or releases captives (like Prisoner Exchange). Captives that are left unattended, however, with neither a trap card nor an escort nor a Brig holding them, are conceptually "tied up and left behind" and thus may be rescued by their owner's other personnel present, without any special card. When a captive is rescued or released, all capture-related cards (like Impersonate Captive) played on her are discarded.
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Short answer: it's an abstraction, in the same way three people fly a Galaxy or five hundred Alice Series all fit in a shuttlecraft.
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AllenGould wrote: Thu Jan 26, 2023 3:29 pm Short answer: it's an abstraction, in the same way three people fly a Galaxy or five hundred Alice Series all fit in a shuttlecraft.
But Androids stack neatly in overhead storage compartments.
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Professor Scott wrote: Thu Jan 26, 2023 4:08 pm
AllenGould wrote: Thu Jan 26, 2023 3:29 pm Short answer: it's an abstraction, in the same way three people fly a Galaxy or five hundred Alice Series all fit in a shuttlecraft.
But Androids stack neatly in overhead storage compartments.
:lol:
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The three people flying the Galaxy class allows it be so empty they can just fill the rest of the thing with brigs.
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