Space - Crush Pressure

[David Johnston2]

Originally Posted by malloyd

Honestly, not much. Maybe not even 1. In most settings spaceships aren't *supposed* to be diving into oceans or gas giants, they're for flying around in space. There's no reason to design them for more than highest pressure atmosphere they will encounter minus the interior pressure..

Assuming that they are armoured to take missile hits they probably have decent compression resistance. So yes there's a reason.