Re: Silent Death, Coca-cola, and the meaning of it all...

Hi,

When I picked up "Full Thrust" I was looking for a starship combat
system 
for "GURPS Space".  Since FT would supplement an RPG in which ships were

described in terms of volume (cubic yards or meters) I "cooked" up the 
numbers.  I was able to do this after I read the Cargo Space
requirements 
from "More Thrust".  I then compared these with the starship
construction 
rules from GURPS and dug out Traveller to see how the numbers looked 
compared to my numbers.

I calculated that 1 mass in FT is equivalent to 312.5 cu/m (or cu/yds if

you prefer).

So the FT scout is 1250 cu/m.  [In Traveller the classic scout ship is 
1400 cu/m.]  This means that the largest ship allowed in the core rules 
is only 31250 cu/m.  When compared to an earthbound naval vessel, I
can't 
remember the exact number but I think it's about 1/3 the size of the 
largest air craft carrier.

Joe A. Troche
http://www.cs.pdx.edu/~jtroche

On Mon, 10 Jun 1996, Paul A Neher wrote:

> 
> >Here's my general classifications, and I'd be interested in other 
> >people's opinions:
> >
> >Star Destroyer--my biggest ships, I use them as big Cruisers.
> 
> I use a Star Destroyer as a mass 100!
> 
> 
> >Corellian Corvettes--Medium/Escort Cruisers
> 
> Mass =10, escort class
> 
> 
> >Millennium Falcons--Light Cruisers (or Strike Cruisers)
> 
> Mass=4, escort
> 
> >Tie Bombers/Y-Wing Fighters--Destroyers (though they're pretty 
> >big...maybe they should be Light Cruisers as well)
> 
> TIE Bombers = Torpedo fighter squadrons
> Y-Wings = Attack Fighters squadrons
> 
> >Tie Fighters--Frigates (though maybe /these/ should be Destroyers)
> 
> TIE Fighters = normal fighter squadrons
> 
> >Anyone whose familiar with both Micromachiens and the CMD figures,
let 
> >me 
> >know how the sizes compare.	If I took the plunge and bought some CMD

> >figures to give mysefl Capital ships would they fit in with the 
> >Micromachines?   Or look too weird...?
> >
> 
> The problem is there IS no scale in FT! I play almost strictly Star
Wars
> and so I went literal with the ship specs. An ISD is 1600m, so that
made
> a size 100. Every other ship I took the length measurement of the shop
> class (not the model) and divided by 16m to get a "mass" ratio" so
> everything is then in scale.
>