Here's a TL9 Spru-Can, built under High Guard

Note it's TL9, so I limited it to pulling 3 gees (compensator tech and all that). It's jump-1, but has fuel for a second jump. It's lightly armed, with a 100dton PAW and a 100 dton missile bay, plus some token sand and missile launchers. Agility 3 and armor 4 mean it's a ship that might stay alive long enough to get away when fighting something with a spinal mount ... but it'll be a terror to any civilian ships, as the combination of a 100dton PAW bay and armor 4 mean bad bad things if it fights civilian ships.

217 dtons of cargo means it can stay on patrol for a while, and it's bang on the expected budget of MCr1 per dton for a military ship.

Assuming Cr90 naval taxes per citizen on a TL9 world, that means MCr90 per million citizens, so with a GCr3 build cost, a planet with 100m citizens could happily afford several.

On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 10:32 AM, Evyn MacDude <evyn.macdude@gmail.com> wrote:
On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 4:17 PM, Michael Houghton <herveus@gmail.com> wrote:
> Howdy!
>
> On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 7:01 PM, Bruce Johnson
> <johnson@pharmacy.arizona.edu> wrote:
>>
>> On Sep 15, 2014, at 3:36 PM, Cheng Tseng <cxt217@kennett.net> wrote:
>>
>>> ObTrva: I am still confused over how Traveller gets the displacement tons from the mass and vice versa, for a ship design.  I always thought that going to a pure mass system (A la David Weber's Honor Harrington.) might be less confusing.
>>
>> It might be, but since jump drive is volume-dependent, not mass-dependent it makes sense to size ships in volume. Why it isn’t in cubic meters is probably due to some un-nammed naval traditionalist during the Rule of Man shoehorning the term into use.
>>
> Even today, ships' tonnage is a volume, not a mass measurement. In some cases
> (Gross Tonnage), the conversion to cubic meters or the like has a
> factor that varies
> as the size of the vessel.
>
> A measurement ton, or freight ton is another volumetric measure, being
> 40 cubic feet.

Not to forget the Register Ton which 100 cubic feet or 2.83 m^3




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