Quoting ice27828, reply 6
Quoting Pbhead, reply 5We do know some of the crew sizes on some of the ships.
The crew sizes for the titans will prolly be in the maneul as well.
I think they reduced the crew size down to a factor of 10 at a minimum. I mean crewing a capital ship using on 50 crew please.
technically it uses only 50 supply. we have no idea the amount of supply to crew ratio. if the kol has 2500 crew then it would mean 1 supply is equal to 50 crew. I can tell you that a modern day navy battleship has a crew complement of nearly 3000. These ships are much larger, so a single supply might be equal to 500. I can tell you that it would be hard for a space age planet to support more than 16 capital ships if their crew each numbered in excess of 25,000.
I dont think the supply points are meant to represent just the crew members (or a multiple of them), but all of the resources needed to maintain a ship. Not all capital ships have the same complement. The Rapture, for example, has 4000 souls on board. And while the cobalt uses 5 supply, it only has 150 people while the Disciple only has 75 (4 supply).
These ships are highly advanced and there is likely a great amount automation to keep them running.
However, I do hope that there is an updated manual with lore for the new ships.