[FT] K'V Hulls

Sean,

I don't care which Hull Integrity chart we use as long as the
mass/points
work out right.. Kra'Vak ships are larger and more dense than Human ships of
the same tonnage..

Steven

> On Sun, 29 Nov 1998, Sean Bayan Schoonmaker wrote:

> Steve put out an alternate hull idea of 10% over MASS instead of a

> Sean,

I'm just worried that my chart might be a little much.

Schoon

> Steven Arrowsmith wrote:

> work out right.. Kra'Vak ships are larger and more dense than

How can something be larger *and* more dense than equivalent ships of the same
tonnage?

If they are more dense then they will be smaller; if they are larger they will
be less dense; to have same tonnage (MASS) as a human ship.

My feeling is the KV have denser stronger ships due to their design doctrine
(intergral armor, turn on a dime). They don't use the same technology as
humans so the design system is different. I'm not even sure if the KV would
build a 'weak' hull, as it would fly apart doing a 6pt turn.

> On Mon, 30 Nov 1998, Tim Jones wrote:

> Steven Arrowsmith wrote:

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.

> My feeling is the KV have denser stronger ships due to their

Tim,

I agree with you on this, we need to be able to add this alien flavor to our
ship design system.. Also how would a weak hull fare agaist Railguns..

SA

> On Mon, 30 Nov 1998, Steven Arrowsmith wrote:

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

> Seteven Arrowsmith wrote:

> Tim, I don't know, how the Kra'Vak are able to do this, you

The intent was to probably say larger and more dense than Human ships of the
same class. This would make sense, or they could have been referring
to KV AI ;-).

If this is the case then KV ships can have a higher MASS than the
human classes in FB. This might help the shoe-horn in problem.