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[TheN7Penguin]

Here's a question: Due to the Volus' pressurised suits, if you threw one out of an airlock, would it just drift in space forever or would it die in a similar manner to every other being? Just for, you know, scientific purposes.

[Taki17]

That depends on how their enviromental suit is built. The volus live on a high pressure world, so their suits are designed to hold that high pressure inside against the normal air pressure from the outside. The suit is probably not a spacesuit, which is built to hold its internal air pressure against zero air pressure in space. I'd imagine it would cost a lot for a volus enivromental suit to funciton as a spacesuit, plus there is no need for diplomats and traders to wear it, so they probably use specialized spacesuits when needed.

 

As for the question, I think a volus in a normal enviromental suit would last a bit longer in space than bare naked, but since there is no outside pressure to press against the suit, the high internal pressure would eventually rupture the suit from the inside, and the since pressure is probably pretty high inside the volus itself, the creature would bloat in a matter of seconds. Nasty,

[iM3GTR]

As for the question, I think a volus in a normal enviromental suit would last a bit longer in space than bare naked, but since there is no outside pressure to press against the suit, the high internal pressure would eventually rupture the suit from the inside, and the since pressure is probably pretty high inside the volus itself, the creature would bloat in a matter of seconds. Nasty.

I'd imagine it would look like bursting an over-inflated baloon.

[Taki17]

I'd imagine it would look like bursting an over-inflated baloon.

Not entirely, as a baloon would suddenly pop when yielding to the intertal pressure, where as the suit would first leak at its weaker parts (joints, bolts, etc) then rupture. The volus could still be alive for a minute or two, but would soon lose conciusness due to the lack of the gas they breathe, and eventually die from its lungs exploding, when the remaining gas would rapidly expand inside of them.

 

Not trying to be too graphic over here, but space is a nasty business, and I still did not cover the extreme cold and radiation.

[bunch1]

Considering how the quarrians suits double as space suits I imagine it would function the same.  Since they do travel on ships and stations they have to know their is a risk of depressurization and they would have a hard time trying to get into another suit on top of that one so for those that go off world it's probably all included to make their lives easier.  So the same thing that happens when Tali and Shepard go into space would have to the Volus.  That is to say they would live until they ran out of breathable atmosphere.