How Many Humans were at Hell's Gate?

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Originally Posted by Human No More

Well, the ISV carries around 200 passengers, plus crew.... In effect, we know that the number of survivors is 200 at most

It seems as if a lot more than 200 people survived. I would imagine that most of the scientists wanted to stay but only a very select few scientists were actually allowed to do so.

Throwing a random idea out there about this limited ISV space dilemna:

Most of the ISV's space is devoted to storage for cargo (like unobtanium). On this evacuation flight, most of that space would have been unused. I wonder if was possible to manufacture makeshift cryomods via stereolithography and bring them onto the ISV using the shuttle. We do not see much of what happens immediately after the battle is over but I would imagine that some sort of agreement (terms of surrender) was reached in which the humans had several days or a few weeks to prepare for departure.