Intergalactic Summit

The most destructive battle in the history of the Empyrean-controlled outer regions was fought in and around system B-R5RB yesterday. Because this forum is overrun with bleeding-heart humanitarians, it might be interested in crew death statistics for the battle.

CONCORD has provided the following capital ship destruction totals. I have multiplied them by the minimum crew numbers for Empyrean piloted ships of each ship type. The range exists because each racial type has different crew requrements, Minmatar the highest and Gallente the lowest:

75 titans * (3,000 to 6,000 crew) = 225,000 to 450,000 titan crew
14 supercarriers * (1,000 to 1,700 crew) = 14,000 to 23,800 supercarrier crew
370 dreads * (300 to 800 crew) = 111,000 to 296,000 dread crew
123 carriers * (350 to 700 crew) = 43,050 to 86,100 carrier crew

All capital ship crew: 393,050 to 855,900. Note that this figure does not include subcapitals, which I gather were engaged in multiple systems, nor fighter or fighter-bomber pilots.

Note that these crew statistics are for empty ships; that is, ships without modules. Sadly, I do not have data for ships with modules; the guidelines cited above only provide statistics for empty ships and ships stuffed with passengers.

Also note that crew survival percentages for this battle will be very, very low due to the following:
— disproportionate destruction due to Doomsday strikes (versus "normal" combat)
— stealth bombing
— smartbombs

If those numbers are not reason enough to end this sort of warfare, I don't know what is. How many mothers, sons, and friends will spend their week in mourning now?

"Defeat, like victory, is but a moment under the stars." But the fatherless are so to the end of their days. Those who value life find no comfort even in justified warfare, they are simple necessities.

Unfortunately, potential losses are increasing as non-imperial factions are becoming capable of building larger ships.

That is heartbreaking. What a waste of life.

Hearing Mittens talk about twisting the knife sent goosebumps on my skin.

Naupilus,
We do not fly capitals with the minimum crew (as you have listed), we fly with a full compliment. The average titan would have something like 80,000 people. Erebuses would be call it 60k at one end, Ragnaroks at 120ksih. Avatars would fly with 100k, most likely. Levithans 80k, there abouts.
Supercarriers would have their fighter bomber wing, so there's the personnel for that and the full compliment, call it 30,000.
Dreadnoughts and carriers would have around 10,000 people on board each. Carriers deployed with their full compliment of fighters, as well, bringing their numbers in line with the larger dreads.

Rabble rable sadness. Rabble rabble justice. Rabble rabble hypocrite...seems the threads followed the normal IGS path. Anything left to talk about or can we get a lock here?

I'm sure we could come to a consensus about getting you locked out, sure.

Our Federation is amply supplied with volunteer crews from the Greater Western Co-Prosperity Sphere. Many volunteers jump at the opportunity to leave behind their consumer electronics and robotics sweatshops to see the universe. They know what they're signing up for.

If one person dies it's a tragedy. If a million die, it's a statistic.

Maybe this is some sort of evolutionary safeguard to prevent each and every one of us from being a crippled emotional wreck in the face of such catastrophes, but when so many lives have been spent at such a rapid rate it doesn't seem to register to me. It's less like individual lives have been claimed and more on par with having just set fire to an insect hive.

I can't feel rage for the people who caused this, I can't feel happiness for those who survived, and I can't bring myself to see a reason for our universe to change. Whenever I see statistics like what occurred in B-R5RB, I just feel a light melancholy that seems to dissipate with a quick shrug.

So I suppose I just don't care. It doesn't effect the State, so it doesn't effect me.

Gods and spirits...

Malkalen pales in comparison, yet I doubt there will be a memorial held for the people that died in this battle.