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Who were Krall's men in Star Trek: Beyond?


I watched Star Trek: Beyond and I can't get my head around one thing:


Spoiler:




If only a few crew members of Krall survived, who were all the people who flew the spaceships/bees? Were they the crew of the one survivor that lead Captain Kirk to the planet/dust, but why would they be warriors of Krall who abducted them? Or were they descendents of the few survivors?




Answer



The quote from the movie is that the planet that Krall/Edison crash-landed on contained a "drone workforce", presumably some sort of (biological?) robots which would explain the sheer quantity of men and ships at his disposal.



Edison: The indigenous race abandoned this planet long ago. They left behind sophisticated mining equipment and a drone workforce



That being said, we see several different species without their helmets on. I think we can assume that since he's not stuck on the planet that he was also recruiting from other nearby races that hate the Federation.


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As to who was flying the ships, they appear to be controlled by the drones, following the orders of the small number of actual biological pilots.



Spock: Captain, the flight patterns of bees are determined by individual decisions. Krall's swarm formations are too complex not to rely on some sort of unified cyberpathic coordination.




This has now been confirmed in an interview with director Justin Lin and screenwriter Simon Pegg



"That's what the swarm is – sophisticated mining equipment. All those soldiers were just worker drones. Krall turned them into an army, and turned the swarm into a weapon. There's all this great backstory to be explored in the novelisation!”"


Star Trek Beyond: 12 things we learnt from Justin Lin and Simon Pegg




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