A quick question:

Do the massive ships of 41 millenium have escape pods?
I could understand that the crew would live and die with the ship but I would imagen that the captain and his direct officers would have some sort of emergency way of getting of a dying ship?

GrtZ,

Santiago...

Yes I think they are called Salvation Pods.

They've been mentioned by a few novels (like the Cain novel about the Ork WAAAGH! on Perlia), yes. And while there probably might not be enough for the whole crew, there are quite a few people on the ship that are valuable enough to be saved - the astropaths, the navigator, the enginseers,...