Re: Traveller ship designs

Hello,
    Regarding incorporating Traveller ship designs into Full Thrust, I 
calculated that one mass point in Full Thrust is equivalent to 312.5 
cu/meters (or 25 tons).  The scout ship in Full thrust is 1250 cu/m 
compared to the classic Traveller Scout Ship at 1400 cu/m.  I think the 
people at GDW used liquid hydrogen (the fuel) to calculate mass 
displacement.  100 tons of liquid H2 is 1400 cu/m.

>200,000 tons
     is 8960 mass points in Full Thrust!  

> Ok, the last traveller system I played was "classic" traveller, so 
> forgive my ignorance if this idea is totally out of line with the
source 
> material.  But what if partical accelerators were only single-arc 
> weapons?  Then you could divide your 33 batteries into 11 batteries
each 
> of right arc, left arc, forward arc.	That way you'd only be rolling 
> eleven dice per attack.  Still probably too many, but at least a
little 
> more manageable.  And definitely intimidating.  Of course drawing all
33 
> batteries on the ship diagram would be a pain in the -ss.
> 

In classic Travelle, book 5 "High Guard" covers ship design in depth. 
In 
High Guard, the idea of "batteries bearing" is used.  One could probably

bring this idea into Full Thrust with little modification.  I never 
designed a ship larger than 600 mass for Full Thrust and I can't begin
to 
get my mind around 8960.  It seems like a city in space, a small
planetoid.

Joe