Emergency space suits

A space suit is a garment worn to keep its occupants alive in the harsh environment of outer space, vacuum and temperature extremes. Emergency Space suits are necessary for loss of pressure in the spacecraft. By law, all passenger spacecraft are required to provide one emergency suit for each passenger. Most are for standard Homo Galactus, but suits are available for any Union species.

Emergency space suits augment the basic pressure garment with a system of equipment and environmental systems designed to keep the wearer comfortable, and to minimize the effort required to bend the limbs, resisting a soft pressure garment's natural tendency to stiffen against the vacuum. Unlike standard suits, these suits are not “form fitting” but designed to fit loosely.

A self-contained supply of air and environmental control system is employed to allow complete freedom of movement, independent of the spacecraft. They also include some form of repair equipment (sealing tape, sealing foam,  emergency beacon and two independent communication devices) and shielding, but no propulsion.