I would really love to be able to make ai/drone/droid/robotic ships. Ships or stations that function without any crew on board. Consider drones walking or flying around maintaining and using the things the crew normally would. Or perhaps the ship and modules themselves are designed to be more reliable or automated and require fewer crew with the same level of capabilities (depending on research level?)
Proposal for
Drone Crew:
- Drone Crew modules will replace crew quarters and act similarly but without the need for living comforts biological creatures require, thus making it smaller in tonnage
- Drones/ai require power from a power plant. Without power, the ship is disabled. (Perhaps there's an automated command a ship can perform if the AI goes offline)
- A new technology which establishes the performance of your drone crew, types of drones, perhaps a tech to lower the power required, etc
- Automated ships won't require as much MSP as a crewed vessel
I really want to be able to say there's no crew on board and so my morals are safe when sending in the drones.
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Non Crewed checkmark when designing a ship which would apply the following research tech (if you have any):
Automated [Crew/Systems/Maintenance/etc]:
At default, the player has no technology into automated crew (or just systems that repair themselves, however you flavor it) and will do nothing. Each level of this tech decreases the required crew for each ship by a set percentage. Max tech level means the player can do entirely automated ships.
Ty for reading.