You can either get rid of the Escape Pods, or sell them at any prison, your choice. Since the credits are maxed out (the limit is 2 billion), that's at least
what it is in Multiplayer, if a character goes beyond the limit it'll crash and cause problems, so you can just get rid of the Prisoners to free up the cargo space.

I've decided to leave them be either way, but if you start with the CF Campaign directly... you'll definitely need to get rid of them because during the CF Missions, 
you'll need your cargo space for the "CF-Based" materials.



Tip:
If you start directly with the Freelancer Campaign, in order to progress through the Storyline, you can sell the Escape Pods at the prisons according to how much it is
required of you. 

Let's say for example, that to progress to the next mission (so that Juni can call you), you need 200 000k credits. Go to any prison in the vicinity (in this case
would be the one in Texas near the planet Houston) and sell escape pods that sums up to 200 000k (or more, your choice... though you don't need to, due to the fact that
I've maxed out your credits) and Juni will call you for the next mission. Do this for each time they ask you to "look around for some missions" or in other words, to 
level up for your "Next Mission".

The prisons that I've used during the FL Campaign, are:
- LPI Huntsville (Texas)
- BPA Newgate (Manchester)
- Fuchu Prison (Shikoku)

If you don't know where they are located, you can look here: https://swat-portal.com/forum/cms/wiki/crossfire/sectors

I've used these specific prisons, because during the Campaign you move from Liberty to Bretonia and then to Kusari, so I've used those that were most close to me.

Also, you don't need to sell every prisoner so that you can progress, just sell the amount that it requires of you because otherwise you'll have to collect more.


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In the Crossfire Campaign however, you won't need any of that because it's an Unofficial Expansion and you just follow along (don't go astray of the path though, because it
might crash, in case that happens -> just restart from the Autosave).

