Molly Brown, concept artist and designer for Iron Lung, posted a shitload of the assets from the movie on her website (love you Molly)
Some of the assets under "Cam Pictures" include files from the SM-8's black box that are very very briefly seen on screen from 01:43:30–01:43:50. This post is specifically focusing on the Crew Manifest seen at 01:43:41.
All crew members are listed with their ID numbers, surnames, sexes, blood types, and role.
All ID numbers include a sequence of 4 digits, 4 characters, then 2 characters, aside from crew member Vaughan, who has 2 digits, 1 character, 1 digit, 4 char, 2 digits. Considering that it's the only outlier, I'd assume this is a typo or a glitched 8. There isn't any immediately obvious pattern, but I'll have to do some further analysis to say for certain.
The presence of surnames confirms that 300+ years in the future, humanity, or at least those within the C.O.I., has continued the use of surnames
There doesn't seem to be any order to how the crew is listed; not alphabetically, not by ID number, not grouped by crew role. This leaves us with the options of:
Sorted by order of when they joined the crew
Sorted by a column that is not shown in this section of the file
My instinctual reaction is to say by hierarchy? Captain, Chief Officer, Head Engineer, etc etc. I have no confirmation of this obviously, it's just a working hypothesis that could easily be disproven.
Speaking of hypotheses, I doubt that this is the crew manifest of the SM-8 itself. The SM-8 and the SM-13 are similar enough to share the same manual, and the size looks to be about the same. There's no way they're fitting 33 people in there, so unless this is a complete list of everyone who has gone on a voyage in the SM-8 (doubtful), my hypothesis is that this is the crew manifest of the tow ship at the time of the SM-8's voyage.
Is the crew really 18% medical staff or does the role of "Medic" encompass like... medical research staff?
Why do they have the crew's blood types on file?
What convention are the ID numbers following?
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