Automation still needs awake compartment watchkeepers

Can trusted automation replace human watches throughout a BC-304?

Not safely; occupied compartments still need awake personnel who can detect and respond to local life-support or sensor failures.

Two comments connect crew size with the reliability of internal sensors and automated systems. Even a highly automated starship contains airtight compartments where a local environmental failure could kill sleeping personnel before a central system reacts. The proposed safeguard is at least one awake watchkeeper in every occupied compartment, which quickly raises the minimum complement toward six hundred. The reply accepts the underlying point that automation changes crew duties but does not eliminate the need for distributed human awareness.