Effect of away team size?

[Kazeto]

Originally Posted by phanatic62

Somewhat related to this topic: if you take officers on an away mission with the captain, and you return to the shuttle with 1 hp, would you lose any of the officers.

Nope. They can return as vegetables with 1 HP and they won't die for as long as anything remains of your away team.

Although, if you are sending your officers on an away mission, it's presumed that you do have one with the Field Medic trait which sort of makes it a non-issue in most cases.