Charted Space Capital Warships are under gunned.

[Condottiere]

If we're moving back to military ships, currently there is a tension between automation and redundancy, or as I heard one French historian explain the Royal Navy, expendability.

Crew comfort being an issue gaining greater priority.

However, going back to a previous point, the larger the hull, the less crew per tonne you need.

If you leave damage control to the droids, you probably can sacrifice some redundancy.

 

[tytalan]

If we're moving back to military ships, currently there is a tension between automation and redundancy, or as I heard one French historian explain the Royal Navy, expendability.

Crew comfort being an issue gaining greater priority.

However, going back to a previous point, the larger the hull, the less crew per tonne you need.

If you leave damage control to the droids, you probably can sacrifice some redundancy.

Military ships generally have less automation not more. There’s a lot of reasons including but not limited to the human ability to be creative when fixing a issue, greater redundancy (one human can and usually are crossed trained in multiple roles while automation/robots are most efficient if built for a specific role). As for less crew for larger hulls that’s not even a part of the equation. As for using Droids they are vastly more expensive in most cases.

This has never been a talk about how many crew members a ship requires it’s about a more realistic way for quartering them and the effects of the privilege of rank.

 

[Condottiere]

It's sort of connected.

Accommodations dictate how many crew life support supports onboard.