RE: [FT] K'V Hulls

On Mon, 30 Nov 1998, Steven Arrowsmith wrote:
> On Mon, 30 Nov 1998, Tim Jones wrote:
> > Steven Arrowsmith wrote:
> > >work out right.. Kra'Vak ships are larger and more dense than
> > >Human ships of the same tonnage..
> > How can something be larger *and* more dense than equivalent
> > ships of the same tonnage?
> Tim, I don't know, how the Kra'Vak are able to do this, you will have
to
> ask one of them.. The quote was from page 24 of More Thrust.

well, they could be denser because they are made of heavy materials
(armour) and larger because they have those huge sticking-out railguns;
'larger' here could refer to length, not volume.

Tom