Re: Transport capacities

-----Original Message-----
From: Jeff Lyon <jefflyon@mail.utexas.edu>
To: gzg-l@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU <gzg-l@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU>
Date: Thursday, October 07, 1999 3:21 PM
Subject: Re: Transport capacities

>>The standard is one Fleet Book Full Thrust Mass is equal to 25 Cargo
>>space or 5 Vehicle space. ... One Mass devoted to personnel could
support
>>6 troopers >(6 * 4 =	24).
>
>Isn't that exactly what I said?  :)
>
>>...This should change your calculations dramatically. ...
>
>Actually, I intended for my calculations to be different from the
currently
>accepted rates; that was the point.
>
>I'm not disagreeing with your conversion rate; indeed, it sounds like
we
>are in agreement on the cargo requirements for vehicles.  Instead, I'm
>suggesting that the cargo space requirements for personnel which have
been
>carried over from MT may be too high.
>
>Sixteen metric tons per leg trooper and one hundred metric tons for a
squad
>of six?  Don't those sound a little high?  Even counting kit, rations,
and
>other overhead, that's still an extraordinarily large allotment of
cargo
>space per trooper; especially when compared to the number of ship's
crew
>that routinely serve aboard the smaller ships.

    Where did you get the metric ton data from?