Other than for the fact that most of us were totally enamored by Skywalker taking his Xwing up against the Death Star and lets face it, the idea of 1 man and his trusty steed is a very romantic one; Wouldn't it actually be better to have a crew for a fighter?<br /><br />First, one admission: I'm a total David Weber fan and have been strongly influence by his books- originally his LACs were incredibly short legged system only craft not carrying enough fuel bunkerage to be anything but a target in a full up fleet battle but over the course of the series technical developments changed that leading to a "fighter' revolution much like what occurred on earth at the dawn of naval air power.<br /><br />However, his LACs are manned by a small crew. and I was thinking that SF fighters, if they were designed along these lines would get better performance, having a dedicated pilot, gunner, and engineer all rolling on their own personal skills.<br /><br />Despite the length of the KH game turn the standard pilot kind of reminds me of "bionic Nazis" (many war-game rules made the Germans so capable that someone coined the phrase "bionic Nazis") he'd really need to be super human to do all those things effectively and funny thing the game lets him!<br /><br />a LAC design doesn't need to be a full up deck plan as the crew would not really be moving around much- only having head, a coffee dispenser and maybe a fold down bunk for long missions. The minimum life support requirements covers 3 individuals. since they're a parasite warship they'd always have a carrier or station near enough that it wouldn't be an issue for a crew to be crammed into a very tight space for a patrol or mission.<br /><br />The only thing I can see in favor of the 1 fighter 1 crew paradigm is its cool. (though I think we should enforce the use of R2D2 type robots to handle engineering duties).<br /><br />Including a LAC paradigm into existing SF games doesn't even have to disrupt the established flow as it could be introduced as:<br />1. just a new design being tried out<br />2. the design philosophy of an alternate race.<br />
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