Re: gzg-d Digest V2013 #12

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From: John Atkinson <johnmatkinson@gmail.com>

The mass of the fighter bay is not merely the launch doors, but the
fuel, ordnance, support crew, etc. necessary to maintain, arm, launch
and recover the fighters.  If he needs a "common sense" reason other
than "stop trying to be a cheezy bastard".

John

If your group wants to allow people to design carriers that way then
that's OK. I would have thought that it's equally valid to say that the
6 mass for the squadron represents the hanger space for the squadron
including fuel and ordnance. Afterall fighters are substantially smaller
than 1 mass each, otherwise they would be targetable by main guns like a
one mass spaceship would be.
 The 3 mass for a launch bay could include the launch bay including
tubes or doors or whatever.

However as has been noted it's not how the standard rules are designed.
There's no missile magazine approach to carrier squadron and in the
future all carriers are designed with the capability to simultaneously
launch all their carried craft, unlike the carriers of today.