On 17Oct2021 0436, Alex Goodwin - alex.goodwin at multitel.com.au (via
tml list) wrote:
>
> Going up the big end of town for the ISW, we have the _Indomitable_
> class 30 kiloton battlewagon (whether battlestar or battleship, am not
> sure).
>
> Per its GT:ISW writeup, damn thing costs 32 G$.  It also mounts 8,182
> dton of fusion power plant that can generate a sustained total of
> 163.6 GW - if six of those put down on CONUS, I think that's the
> contemporary continental USA's power grid covered.
>
> GT maintenance would be 4.8 * sqrt (32,000) = 858 man-hours/day.
>
> Elv maintenance would be sqrt (163,600,000) * 0.011 (TTL13, at a
> guess) * 1.0 (fusion) * 1.0 (starship drivetrain) = 140.7 man-hours/day.

The Indomitables would be battleships (Traveller doesn't do
'battlestars'), being a huge (for its time) meson gun, a jump three
drive, and a few little bits of spaceship wrapped in armour. It's also
TTL12 by canon, as that was the peak TL of the Terrans and the Second
Imperium, and the Indomitables were the signature ship of that time and
that TL - Jump 3, meson gun armed.

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Rupert Boleyn <xxxxxx@gmail.com>