Posted by: Jorgen_CAB
« on: December 14, 2019, 11:26:43 AM »If all you want is a bare bones EM and TH sensor, you can make a fighter with zero systems at all, nothing but crew endurance. I have Long Watches, which are 15 ton fighters with 50 year crew endurance. It isn't necessary, 3 months would be enough for a commercial ship/station, but it was cheesy enough I wanted there to be some cost to it.
In role-play spirit I usually consider commercial stations at 3 moths deployment to receive worker and replacement crew once in a while. I even create small shuttle craft and set them to automated movement between stations and populated colonies to represent this. These small shuttles are carrying replacement crew and supplies.
This usually make sense to me that it would work like that, this is also how I imagine that most commercial vessels to work, they will replace their crews once in a while when they are at populated colonies.