SV: Tenders and stuff

> Yup, more silly questions:

Probably, but I'd make it pretty Mass-intesive. Consider:

A normal Warship uses 25% of it's Mass for an FTL drive, 25% for engines etc,
and has 50% available for weapons and such.

A Freighter also uses 25% of it's Mass for the FTL drive; it's engines should
be about as large as the Warship's but it might save space on crew quarters
etc. It has 10% of the Mass available for military equipment, and
thus some 40-45% of the Mass is cargo- or passenger spaces.

A Tender seems to devote most, if not all, of those 40-45% IN ADDITION
to
the normal 25% to it's beefed-up FTL drive - thus 65-70% of the total
Mass of the ship is FTL drive. It never says so in the rules, but now that I
think about it it seems reasonable :-/ (And yes, I know I was the one
who said the rules didn't say anything about the FTL drive Mass earlier in
answer to your question on fuel consumption. I still maintain that they
don't...)

> If so, it seems a real good fleet design would be

> 1) They can take highly combat capable non-ftl craft

Doesn't say so in the Tender section, though. Use it as a house rule if you
like :-)

Regards,