Re: [OFFICIAL] new ideas!

At 05:53 AM 3/5/97 -0500, you wrote:
>A
>>>This system give a very practical limit of a ship: in this case Mass
40.
>>>and building a mass 100 ship is impossible, the drive systems would
weigh
>>>more than the ship itself!
>>> Marshall Grover
>>>
>>>"A Jedi's greatest enemy is himself." - Obi-Wan Kenobi
>>>
>>If the size of the engine for a mass 100 ship is bigger than the ship,
that
>>means your calculation is skued somehow...Maybe the increase is too
steep?
>>
>>Donald Hosford
>
>no, it just means I can't put a thrust 5 engine in a size 100 hull. I
can
>put a thrust 4 or 3 engine in it.
>thr absolute size limit is around 400 or 500 with a thrust of 1.
> Marshall Grover
>
>"A Jedi's greatest enemy is himself." - Obi-Wan Kenobi
>
those 400-500 mass ships will have only an engine, and very little
else....:-)

That does put a sizable brake on the superships....

Donald Hosford
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