12-08-2003, 02:35 PM
(11-28-2003, 11:52 AM)Goku1 link Wrote:Ah, another thing Tank. Remmember the legendary Catana Fleet of Alderan? It was sent off crewed completely by droids. That's the way we'll have the SSD Rebel crewed. We can enlist some officers to oversee her, but it'll be primarily droids.
Still wouldn't work. Even the Katana fleet (of the Old Republic) made up of Dreadnaughts still needed a 1,000 to 2,000 crewmen each. And they didn't have droids, they each had central computers, much like Star Trek ships do. It was when they vanished that the trend towards droids became fully standard.
A SSD requires nearly 1 million crewmembers! Even if you had central computer cores, you'd still need more crew than a single starfighter wing can provide.
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Tanker (tangk'er)n. 1. A dusty, crusty, grease-covered, dirty, sweaty, bright eyed, fuzzy faced, haircut-needing, beer-drinking, underrated, over-worked, underpaid, oversexed, little s%#* who can take a Tank and do more battlefield damage in ten minutes than a grunt squad can do all day.
Tanker (tangk'er)n. 1. A dusty, crusty, grease-covered, dirty, sweaty, bright eyed, fuzzy faced, haircut-needing, beer-drinking, underrated, over-worked, underpaid, oversexed, little s%#* who can take a Tank and do more battlefield damage in ten minutes than a grunt squad can do all day.