Post by jageriv on Dec 21, 2019 21:30:52 GMT
Crew is one of those things that, can, well, balloon very quickly. For example, take one smallish task which hasn't been mentioned is comm officers: currently, its modeled pretty much universally as 3 comm officers, so a three shift rotation with someone on hand at all times. However, communications needs can easily balloon past that: you can easily have two or three comm people on at all times: how many depends on the rate of data and communications that need to be maintained. Doctors generally seem to need 2-3 assistants per doctor, and if you need to be able to perform two surgeries at once immediately doubles that to 6+. And if you need any specialists, that balloons quickly.
Hell, the McDonalds I used to work at employed 50! people for one small little store which doesn't even operate 24/7 and didn't do anything complicated. But just handling a drive through window can have 2-3 people just handled to handling the orders coming through the windows. Currently each drone has 3 operators in flight plus actual maintenance crew. So by that measure you would expect our light carriers to have some 30-100 people for drone operation, instead of the 4 we currently have.
Generally, making things more efficient involves more specialization which requires a larger crew, a return to scale and such. Of course, the more short term the actual trip, the less of a mass penalty crew is: for example, right now it assumes a 25 crew module weighs about 100 tons. However, for a relatively short term stay, say about as long as the lunar trip, about a 10 day trip, can do that at about 1 ton per crew, and at the level of cramped of the lunar lander have about 1/10 the internal volume. Of course, if your so close that your only doing couple of week trips, you should also be able to unload more personnel planet side as well.
Hell, the McDonalds I used to work at employed 50! people for one small little store which doesn't even operate 24/7 and didn't do anything complicated. But just handling a drive through window can have 2-3 people just handled to handling the orders coming through the windows. Currently each drone has 3 operators in flight plus actual maintenance crew. So by that measure you would expect our light carriers to have some 30-100 people for drone operation, instead of the 4 we currently have.
Generally, making things more efficient involves more specialization which requires a larger crew, a return to scale and such. Of course, the more short term the actual trip, the less of a mass penalty crew is: for example, right now it assumes a 25 crew module weighs about 100 tons. However, for a relatively short term stay, say about as long as the lunar trip, about a 10 day trip, can do that at about 1 ton per crew, and at the level of cramped of the lunar lander have about 1/10 the internal volume. Of course, if your so close that your only doing couple of week trips, you should also be able to unload more personnel planet side as well.