Re: [FT] Scale in Full Thrust

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	  Allan Goodall <awg@sympatico.ca> wrote:

> > From: David Griffin <carbon_dragon@yahoo.com>
> > Date: 2001/06/06 Wed AM 10:34:45 EDT
> 
> > Do we know how heavy a mass 225 spaceship is in
> > Full Thrust and how far 48MU's is as far as 
> > weapon range? I think they're deliberately vague
> > so they can simulate a variety of genres, but 
> > I'm talking about within Tuffley's FT universe.
> 
> The calculated scale for FT in the Tuffleyverse is 1000 km per MU, and
> 15 to 20 minutes per turn.
> 
> I have seen references to 1 mass = 100 tons, but I'm not positive
about that.
> 
> Allan Goodall     awg@sympatico.ca
>
I tend to think of this as 1 mu = 1000km, 1 turn = 1000s, in which case
1 thrust = .2g (so thrust 5 = 1g).

It should be noted that under this scale, a Phalon plasma bolt is almost
as big as the Earth :-)

For other genres - using range values quoted in the series (where I
remember them):

B5 - typical engagement ranges in 100's of km, so 1mu = 10km
Star Trek - typical engagement ranges (as quoted in script - _not_
apparent visual ranges in FX) - 10's of thousands of km, so 1mu = 1000km
Andromeda (from the few episodes I watched) - typical engagement ranges
in multiples of light seconds - 1mu = .1 to 1 light seconds, or 30,000
to 300,000 km (and missiles move at near lightspeed).

In _written_ SF, the ranges can get a lot bigger :-).

Charles

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