Re: [FT/MT/DS]: Mass vs Capacity

2B^2 wrote:

>> >(mass 1.5/fighter for the fighter & it's bay).
>>[snip]
>> >But the rules for cargo state that 1 mass = 50 cargo points, and
>> >that vehicles take up 4 CP per size class.	That means a class 7
vehicle
>> >takes up 28 CP, or .56 mass.  seems a bit low for what it should
take up.
>>
>>The mass of 1.5 for the fighter and its bay includes all the support
>>services, fuel storage, magazines, flight ready rooms, flight and
>>maintenance crew quarters and so on....
>
>Yes, but the mass of 1 is supposedly for the fighter ONLY

You're reading things into the rules which aren't actually there. There
are 
two different Hangar Bay entries in the FB1 design table:

* One for small craft which say that the bay is 1.5xMASS of small craft 
carried, and

* Another one for fighters, which only says that "all fighters require
1.5 
MASS of hangar bay space per fighter" but doesn't say how big the
fighter 
itself is.

You have mixed the two up - the "mass of 1" comes from the Small Craft 
entry, not from the Fighter entry. Fighters aren't the same thing as
small 
craft; a small craft bay can't service fighters, and a fighter bay can't

carry a small craft.

The total bay MASS needed to hold 1 MASS of small craft and minimal
service 
equipment and stores is equal to the MASS needed to hold 1 fighter plus 
large amounts of service equipment and stores, but this doesn't mean
that 
the fighter is 1 MASS. Quite the contrary, in fact.

Regards,

Oerjan

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