User blog comment:SupcommMonroee/Suppy Super Post 7 - Ratios and Numbers! Space Navy Numbers!/@comment-771241-20130512044405/@comment-3155949-20130514032518

Automation is an important factor to consider, and several times I lowered the crew levels of vessels to account for that. However, I believe that robotic crew can never truly replace organic crew due to the fact that simple EMP can render them useless, they are incapable of higher-level creative thinking, and can be simply reprogrammed.

Referring to the robotic invasion, I would be shocked if there were still modern galactic armies incapable of issuing survival equipment for planets with hostile atmospheres. Modern medical technology also creates a wider range of openly survivable biospheres due to the far lessened risk of death by foreign infection. In line with the robotic crew line of thinking, organic soldiers have several advantages. In addition, I firmly believe that the basic rifleman is a component of an army that can never be replaced. I honestly believe that in a thousand years there will still be 'riflemen' doing the same job they are now, and the same job they are in many GC militaries. We just won't recognize them.