Warhammer's crew totals are qualified by the setting's unreliable storytelling and repeated revisions. A number described as the official crew may instead be the population placed aboard when the ship entered service. After years of births, losses, and movement within the ship, that figure need not match the people actually living there. The suggestion to add a zero is presented as a fan rule of thumb, not a reliable conversion formula. Comparisons of overcrowding therefore depend on what a fictional crew figure is intended to count.
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Warhammer's official crew totals are uncertain population counts
A follow-up warns against treating an initial crew establishment or an unreliable narrator's number as a precise later census.