RE: So How Big is a Starship?

I always thought that MASS is just that - mass.  200 tonnes (metric
tons) 
per unit, by the FB background.  Volume will be related, but not too 
closely.  Given of course that we estimate ship minis by volume, not
mass, 
but we still assume a pretty much constant volume - mass ratio. 
Traveller 
used tonnes of liquid H as a volume rating because that was the main
fuel 
for manuver and FTL drives, and 10-60% of a ships' volume was taken up
by 
fuel.  Far more important than in FT, AFAIK.  And according to Fire,
Fusion 
& Steel (TNE), most ships came out massing about what they would if they

displaced H20, not liquid H.  Your engineers on a FT ship are not going
to 
be concerned with dispacement at all unless you have to fit one thing
into 
another - it's all about mass; and boosting it.

Noah

-----Original Message-----
From:	Michael Blair [SMTP:amfortas@hotmail.com]
Sent:	Friday, July 17, 1998 04:24 AM
To:	ftgzg-l@bolton.ac.uk
Subject:	So How Big is a Starship?

So How Big is a Starship?

<SNIP post of ship size stuff>

MRB

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