Silent Death, Coca-cola, and the meaning of it all...

Hi,

When I picked up "Full Thrust" I was looking for a starship combat system for
"GURPS Space". Since FT would supplement an RPG in which ships were

described in terms of volume (cubic yards or meters) I "cooked" up the
numbers. I was able to do this after I read the Cargo Space requirements from
"More Thrust". I then compared these with the starship construction rules from
GURPS and dug out Traveller to see how the numbers looked compared to my
numbers.

I calculated that 1 mass in FT is equivalent to 312.5 cu/m (or cu/yds if

you prefer).

So the FT scout is 1250 cu/m.  [In Traveller the classic scout ship is
1400 cu/m.]  This means that the largest ship allowed in the core rules
is only 31250 cu/m.  When compared to an earthbound naval vessel, I
can't
remember the exact number but I think it's about 1/3 the size of the
largest air craft carrier.

Joe A. Troche
http://www.cs.pdx.edu/~jtroche

> On Mon, 10 Jun 1996, Paul A Neher wrote:

> >Here's my general classifications, and I'd be interested in other

> >figures to give mysefl Capital ships would they fit in with the