RE: Fleet Book Tonnage

Well, it would be displacement if you floated it in water in a 1g 
field...not that that happens much with the bigger ships, but I can see 
landing some in water ports, even hiding them underwater (the famed 
Traveller submerged SDB tactic)

Noah

-----Original Message-----
From:	Samuel Penn [SMTP:sam@bifrost.demon.co.uk]
Sent:	Saturday, July 11, 1998 06:39 AM
To:	FTGZG-L@bolton.ac.uk
Subject:	Re: Fleet Book Tonnage

In message <l03010d03b1cc1b95db06@[195.188.107.161]>
	  Ground Zero Games <jon@gzero.dungeon.com> wrote:

> >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?).
> >
>
> I used the term "displacement" in the maritime sense, just to keep the
> "naval" feel - it is simply the ship's mass in metric tonnes.

Okay, thanks. I assumed 'displacement' meant it was really
a volume, rather than a mass, measurement.

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