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Re: [FT] Scale in Full Thrust

From: Oerjan Ohlson <oerjan.ohlson@t...>
Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2001 21:07:29 +0200
Subject: Re: [FT] Scale in Full Thrust

Ryan Gill wrote:

>>Doesn't this make for small ships in the
>>Tuffleyverse relative to some other genre
>>universes? A 250 Mass SDN would be 25,000
>>tons. I've seen various ships described in
>>various genres up to millions of tons.
>
>Not very big. I've already resigned myself to the principle that Honor 
>Harrington SDNS are in the 2-3000 Mass realm in FT terms.

Not at all, the HH SDNs are in the 6-8000 Mass realm in TUFFLEYVERSE
terms.

Tuffleyverse terms =|= "FT terms".

If you don't play in the Tuffleyverse, the "1 Mass = 100 tons" simply
does 
not apply...

Regards,

Oerjan
oerjan.ohlson@telia.com

"Life is like a sewer.
  What you get out of it, depends on what you put into it."
-Hen3ry


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