------------------------------ On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 6:45 PM CDT Zan Lynx wrote:
>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. > > >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. One way to limit ship size is to limit hyperdrive size, to the point where a ship is to large for the hyperdrive to engage. >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. According to the old WEG Star Wars RPG, a star destroyer is 1,600 metrrs long. Brandon _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
