I missed the general crew portion of the question; same reading applies -
base crew for 26Kt disp., plus any additional crew incurred by the drives
being for a 40Kt disp. ship.

On Fri, 10 Jul 2026 13:43:16 -0400, Christopher Sean Hilton wrote:

>When building planetoid ships, there's a crew sizing question which seems murky to me:
>
>**Q:** How many crew do you assign to the bridge of a 40000 dTon buffered planetoid hulled
>ship?
>
>Is it 20 because there 40,000 total dTons of ship? Or is it 15 because there's only 26,000
>usable dTons of ship?
>
>Similar for the general crew assigned to the ship, 80 for 40,000 total dTons or 52 for
>26,000 usable dTons
>
>
>Thanks

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