On Fri, 2012-09-21 at 22:12 +0200, Onno Meyer wrote: > I've just finished the TL16 fast courier, and I'm wondering what > to do next.
I've been reading your ship designs and I was thinking about how interesting it is that ship sizes come out so differently in different sci-fi universes. The GURPS system makes these little couriers at just 100 tons. In David Weber's Honor Harrington universe for example, the smallest hyper capable ships are 50,000 metric tons. A hyper-drive alone is about 20,000 tons, impeller nodes, support equipment, fusion reactor mass and especially the fusion reactor (huge beasts driven by gravity collapse) takes up the rest. Honorverse freighters are 8 megaton (when full) beasts with about 20 crew. Most of the ship is just power, drives and a hollow core. An Honorverse ship to ship missile alone masses 80 tons. In Star Wars, I don't know the ship masses, but a Star Destroyer has to be a lot. Those things are just really, really big. One web site has an estimate of SD mass somewhere between 27 to 54 megatons. That isn't even a Super Star Destroyer. -- Knowledge Is Power Power Corrupts Study Hard Be Evil _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
