


Suppose the players board an empty Star Destroyer with the desire to salvage and capture it. The question is, what do all of those people do, and how many of them are really necessary? This number specifically excludes gunners. They define the skeleton crew as "the absolute minimum number of crewmembers necessary to fly the ship" (emphasis theirs). The stats for the Imperial class Star Destroyer in West End Games's Star Wars RPG list the skeleton crew for the vessel as 5,000 people.
