RE: Fleet Book Tonnage

The tonnage is actually mass in tonnes (metric tons, 1000 kg), and the
FB 
has it as 100 tonnes per Mass.	Traveller's 'tonnage' was a measure of 
volume (volume displacement of 1 tonne of liquid hydrogen), which also
gave 
an average mass when using the density of water (???) at least as far as

TNE went.  As far as a spaceship is concerned, at least ones as
high-tech 
as FT's, volume is not a consideration - mass is.  Well, how spread out
it 
is would be a concern as well, but there's not a lot of 'open-frame'
type 
ships in FT (too bad :).

Noah

-----Original Message-----
From:	Samuel Penn [SMTP:sam@bifrost.demon.co.uk]
Sent:	Thursday, July 09, 1998 12:15 PM
To:	FTGZG-L@bolton.ac.uk
Subject:	Fleet Book Tonnage

What is the tonnage given in the Fleet Book? Is it the same
as that used in Traveller (displacement liquid hydrogen isn't it?)
or is displacement something else? (water?).

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