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CrewEscape

The chance that a destroyed vehicle's crew steps out as an infantry survivor.

Specification
Applies to
global rules
File
rules.ini
Section
[General]
Value
floating point
When omitted
.5

The value is a fraction, weighed against a random figure between 0 and 1 and passing only while it is the larger, so 0 never produces a crew. The roll is taken once and yields at most one soldier, whose type comes from Crew or Technician. That soldier appears at the wreck with a strength between 5 and half its own maximum, hunting for a computer house and standing guard for a human one.

Only a vehicle reaches the roll, and only under All of:

  • the hit that destroyed it was not flagged as leaving no crew — an energizing laser fence, a collapsing bridge and a crashing aircraft all set that flag;
  • it is Crewed=yes;
  • it declares no Passengers at all.

A transport is therefore excluded by its capacity even when it is crewed and empty. A structure never consults the setting; its own count comes from SurvivorRate and SurvivorDivisor instead.

A vehicle that was taken by a hijacker skips the roll entirely. The hijacker steps back out in the crew’s place, at any setting and without the Crewed=yes requirement.

See alsocapture, Crew, Crewed