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Nice looking setup [@Lucidnonsense]. Looking forward to seeing what you come up with. To answer your question, it is not an exact science. If you were to back me into a corner and demand a number, depends how large the ship is and how large the equipment is, factoring in the need to carry consumables and spares aboard ship as well. Drones? IDK. Say 200?
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Drones come in a variety of sizes, some of them are like little more than a tiny engine with some equipment attacked to them, others actually have guns, some are more utility based, like construction robots.