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* Spacecraft in ''[[EVE Online]]'' can be controlled by a single person, assuming that said single person is a 'capsuleer', or 'pod pilot' and the ship is designed to accept a pod. Otherwise it takes a full crew to fly a ship. Only a small fraction of humanity has the potential to be pod pilots, and those people are considered a valuable resource, to the point that capsuleers are assured access to clones and that no empire can lay claim to them.
** It's assumed by the EVE-Online community that even capsuleer ships have some crew (1-6 for frigates, thousands for a battleship) but they're invisible because [[Crapsack World|Life is Cheap]] in the Eve 'verse.
*** [https://web.archive.org/web/20150427081645/http://www.eveonline.com/background/potw/default.asp?cid=14-07-05 Assumed] my [https://web.archive.org/web/20150511201243/http://www.eveonline.com/background/potw/default.asp?cid=20-04-09 foot]. EVE Online is an aversion, except possibly in the case of the Reaper, which thematically is so small it barely escapes getting classified as a two-man fighter ''without'' a capsule. The question of crew presence has long been answered; they're just smaller than in non-capsuleer craft (and still generally huge). The question of late is if the crew should have any sort of in-system representation.
* Derek Smart's ''[[Battlecruiser 3000AD]]'' series is this trope taken to the ridiculous extreme. Of course, in-universe, there are crews, but it's actually one man, the player, doing EVERYTHING.
* In ''[[Mass Effect 2]]'', the Cerberus-built Normandy includes an AI that could theoretically take over pretty much every aspect of running the ship, apart from helming it, and allow it to be run by a crew of one. Cerberus intentionally made the AI unable to do so, {{spoiler|at least without overriding its safety constraints which you have to do late on in the game}}, and thus the ship features a full human crew complement.
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