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== Spaceships ==
* The ''[[Andromeda]] Ascendant'' is a kilometer-long capital ship with dozens of slipfighters and relativistic missile launchers and for most of the series functions with a crew of ''six''. Albeit justified as most of the original crew of thousands abandoned ship in the pilot and [[Sapient Ship|the AI]] is capable of filling most of their functions.
* Played with in ''[[
** This can be surmised by the fact the control console is hexagonal indicating 6 duty stations.
** There's also the fact that when you consider how many times the TARDIS malfunctions or is otherwise inaccurate in arriving at its destination, it seems that the Doctor is just barely able to maintain the thing. It is also occasionally implied that even he is not quite sure how it works, and leaves a certain degree of its operation to chance or trial and error. It helps that this particular TARDIS was a banged-up, obsolete model when the Doctor originally stole it.
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** Real Life Subversion: [http://tfl.gov.uk/dlr Docklands Light Railway] runs trains with a crew of nought.
*** Though the on-board Passenger Service Agent is trained to become the [[Crew of One]] and drive the train if computer operation fails.
* Both used and averted in ''[[Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood (Video Game)|Assassin's Creed Brotherhood]]''. The {{spoiler|Bomber}} is justified as only having enough space for one man. The {{spoiler|Tank}} needs three people to run it, though gameplay usage does not act as such. The {{spoiler|Machine Gun}} is clearly meant to have a driver and gunner, but you get separate parts of the mission for using both and during the latter the thing is on autopilot or something. The {{spoiler|Naval Weapon}} clearly is meant to have a gunner and driver too and this time Ezio has to switch between the two positions as necessary.
* Almost all fighter aircraft have a one-man crew, who both flies the aircraft and operates the weapons.
** Many exceptions to this are electronic-warfare variants of what are otherwise single-seat fighters (themselves often based on a two-seat trainer variant). The second person runs the (much more extensive) electronic warfare equipment. There are also fighters that only exist in two-seat configurations, which often carry much more elaborate electronics packages than single-seat aircraft do (since there's another person there to operate the more complex systems), such as the F-14 and A-6.
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