On Apr 1, 2018, at 7:53 PM, Kurt Feltenberger <xxxxxx@thepaw.org> wrote:

Modern warships have the space to do this.  Traveller ships do not.  For the mess hall you will need about .5dton+ per person seated and probably about about 1dton per 10 people served at a time.  Minimum.  And that doesn't count the stores.  You just can't pull that amount of volume out of the stateroom allowance and still have a viable ship with passages, staterooms, or any sort of privacy.

This is not an issue with provisions, so much as a gross failure of the ship design system if it doesn’t provide that space. They manage this now in nuclear submarines, after all...