Does the Crew in the future update also act as a away team?

[Asmodium]

was thinking it would be cool if you could assign a crew member as a body guard

 

[psteiner]

was thinking it would be cool if you could assign a crew member as a body guard

I'm fairly sure that escorting you will be one of the functions of crew.

 

[Crimson-Artist]

technically speaking you can already do this but its extremely simple and not very useful atm