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Re: Crew info on cruisers?
Noone got my joke, oh well.

But yeah, a skeleton crewed Orion probably have as much combat effectiveness as the Bastion in Clash of the Titans (FS2)...doesn't shoot doesn't launch fighters. Just moves (that's all an oil tanker has to do).
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Re: Crew info on cruisers?
A Nimitz is a carrier and a warship, so you can expect it to get damaged and have to make repairs at sea.
Some of the crew may also be killed in action, so you'd have to replace them.
You need crew for aircraft servicing and maintaining the nuclear reactor, as well as operating weaponary and radars.
An oil tanker is pretty much just a floating barrel, so you only need navigation and engineering crew to operate it.
Also, you could run a Nimitz with a crew only slightly larger than crew of a tanker (it's called "skeleton crew"), but it won't be capable of fighting or launching planes.

there is also things like command and control for the supporting taskforce, crew rotation for the day which something like tipples the number on board. You also have things like cooks for all those crew and medical staff (i believe Nimitz like most carriers has numerous surgical suites as well as various wards which need staffing), i also believe Nimitz carrys a number of marine guards.
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Re: Crew info on cruisers?
Noone got my joke, oh well.

But yeah, a skeleton crewed Orion probably have as much combat effectiveness as the Bastion in Clash of the Titans (FS2)...doesn't shoot doesn't launch fighters. Just moves (that's all an oil tanker has to do).

Funny ... I thought the Bastion still fires some of its laser turrets.
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Re: Crew info on cruisers?
It does?
Well...
In my defense, those turrets are pretty much useless so I never payed any attention to them. The Aeolus cruisers do the job well enough.
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Re: Crew info on cruisers?
They do their job well, but the occasional Helios is still able to find its way past the flak and AAA screens.
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Re: Crew info on cruisers?
I never saw any escape pod leave the bastion.

So that leaves me to conclude:

Its flown remotely or they all An Hero'd

 

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Re: Crew info on cruisers?
I never saw any escape pod leave the bastion.

So that leaves me to conclude:

Its flown remotely or they all An Hero'd
The cutscene following the mission indicates it was flown remotely.
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Funny ... I thought the Bastion still fires some of its laser turrets.

remotely controlled from a command ship?

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The cutscene following the mission indicates it was flown remotely.

iirc, all the cutscene establishes it was detonated remotely. logically however, i dont think anyone was stupid (pronounced "heroic and brave") enough to actually be on a ship that was gonna go boom

 
Re: Crew info on cruisers?
I could swear that in the breifing it said it would be flown remotely.

 
Re: Crew info on cruisers?
Not in the COTTII mission briefing at least.

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Re: Crew info on cruisers?
Command probably gave it a cheap AI to fly it in a straight line and replaced everything inside with some kind of rudimentary auto-targeting system.
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Re: Crew info on cruisers?
In "A Lion At The Door," if you lose the Dashor, the debreif will say that 8,000 vasuadans died

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Re: Crew info on cruisers?
If GTC Fortune gets destroyed in "Endgame" it says that "Thousands of courageous officers and crew sacrificed their lives for the GTVA. We as a squadron must ask ourselves what could have been done to avert this tragedy. "  Same thing though if Monitor gets destroyed.

 
Re: Crew info on cruisers?
I wish I had a good idea for a welcoming text...

:welcomeorange:

And back to topic:

It's pretty strange that they wrote "thousands" after a cruiser got destroyed...

Unless they were lazy and made a single text for both cases, or the Fortune was also meant to be a corvette early in development.
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Re: Crew info on cruisers?
I think the most likely scenario is that the size of the ship's crew changes depending on the mission/operation it's undertaking. A cruiser may not need more than 300 to assault a convoy when it's operating from an Arcadia or a Ganymede, but it may need a crew in the thousands to sustain it when it operates without support in the nebula.

 
Re: Crew info on cruisers?
I'd personally go with a smaller crew on long range, unsupported missions.

Unless they have a way to produce unlimited amounts of food.
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Re: Crew info on cruisers?
lets cite precident here, the Carrack-class cruiser from Star Wars, which serves similar purpose to the fenris light assaut, anti-fighter) which is roughtly 50% larger than the fenris-class. (carrack is 350 meters, fenris is 250). the carrack has a crew of 1092. so scale that back to about 2/3 of that, and we get roughly 700 crew, but my opinion thinks that would be a bit igh, given the shape of the fenris. but that's just what i think, nothing i can back up

 

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Re: Crew info on cruisers?
I'd personally go with a smaller crew on long range, unsupported missions.

Unless they have a way to produce unlimited amounts of food.

I'd assume with a ship of that size, you'd be able to store a very large amount of food and water. But remember, when a ship is acting in the nebula out there, it needs to be more or less self-sufficient, and carry the necessary crew to make a lot of field repairs.

 
Re: Crew info on cruisers?
So, back to the original original question, the most popular numbers tend to be between 600 and 1000 crew for a cruiser.