The armored command-center concept could do more than shield controls during battle. If automation reduced the essential crew to roughly one hundred people, the protected space might also be designed as a self-contained survival capsule. It could carry independent power and, in an extreme design, separate from a fatally damaged hull. The proposal is speculative, but it shows how crew reduction, remote control, armor, and escape planning interact.
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An armored command center that could become a survival capsule
Concentrating a highly automated crew in a protected command cocoon opens the speculative option of making that space independently survivable after loss of the ship.