IMHO the ship AI would only instruct its robotic maintenance systems to maintain those functions required to ensure minimum efficent sustainment of ship's function per instructions received from the crew; if crew dead, no instructions, therefore sleep mode. If the crew dies, the AI shuts down the systems and waits. Likely would maintian only 0.1% of functional systems for security and communication monitoring. For all intents and purposes it would be a 'dead' thing for those not aware of the technology, so natives would just see is as an incredibly different metal object of no particular use (assuming no internal access).
This is a ship that lands in good repair.
If there is hull breach damage that maintenance robots can't fix, then its another story, but the breach may well be secured by some system that zaps the curious natives with low voltage, requiring nothing more than fencing wire. Low tech counter-measures for low tech threats.

On 10 February 2016 at 05:50, Knapp <xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote:


On Tue, Feb 9, 2016 at 5:52 PM, <xxxxxx@mail.de> wrote:
Robotic maintenance crew, worshipped as gods by the locals? Ritual offers of raw metal ores...


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Carlos Alós-Ferrer
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I like how you think!

And perhaps the computers have instructions for emergency maintenance?  I just saw thet 1% idea also and that is quite good. Perhaps in combination a ruler class could be trained that maintains the ship at least at a basic level. I would also think on a ship this size that there would be mysteries and also weapons and other tech found that would perform miracles and also be quite good for local wars.


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Douglas E Knapp, MSAOM, LAc.
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