Alternative to "manned" when referring to an extraterrestrial spacecraft?

In this question about manned spaceships versus drones, a user (perhaps jokingly) pointed out that "manned" wouldn't technically be correct when talking about an extraterrestrial spacecraft:

By definition, they wouldn't be 'manned', but they might be 'aliened'.

Potential jokes aside, is there a more species-neutral adjective we can use here?

Consider crewed, which means:

Provide (a craft or vehicle) with a group of people to operate it:

'normally the boat is crewed by 5 people'.

It works perfectly in a sci-fi context. For example,

The ship was crewed primarily by Vulcans and cyborgs.

Piloted would seem to fit nicely, although it does have to connotation of having a pilot rather than just a passenger.

Staffed could also work if you didn't want to talk about a specific pilot rôle.

Operated would also take out the species element of the word, focusing on the job.

Occupied would do the job:

One of the meanings of occupied is:

Being used by someone; with someone in it.

Cambridge Dictionary

The craft was occupied.

Inhabited

What are commonly called 'drones' are sometimes called 'uninhabited air vehicles' as unmanned also means 'cowardly' so is not a selling point for combat aircraft; the inverse of this would be inhabited.

Most UAVs are piloted remotely or autonomously, so 'piloted' does not imply inhabited - the Reaper is piloted, the V1 was not, neither was inhabited. Similarly, in military speech, UAVs also have a crew - if you are the remote pilot or weapons control for a UAV you are still considered its air crew, and every UAV also has a ground crew:

The primary concept of operations, remote split operations, employs a launch-and-recovery ground control station for take-off and landing operations at the forward operating location, while the crew based in continental United States executes command and control of the remainder of the mission via beyond-line-of-sight links. USAF MQ-9 Reaper fact sheet