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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Masao: [QB] I originally started thinking about ship displacement (and eventually, complement) when I someone told me that Intrepid displaced nearly 1 million tons and that Galaxy was about 4 million. The Starfleet Technical manual and other TOS and movie era tech books say that TOS Enterprise displaced about 200,000 tons. Such a difference in weight for ships of roughly the same length (TOS Ent and Intrepid) seemed unlikely. Baloo, your method seems rather too complicated for my purposes. As I recall, Traveller is a kind of role-playing game, right? So internal layout of ships is part of the game environment. As a noncanon ship designer, I have only a vague idea of the internal arrangement of my ships. I only calculated weights and densities on the basis of components so that I could come up with a single number for ship displacement. Working backwards from numbers given in the SFTM, I calculated the TOS Enterprise to have the following densities (in tons per cubic meter): primary hull and neck, 0.757; secondary hull + nacelle pylons, 0.993; Nacelle (each), 1.286; whole ship, 0.964. These densities are probably near that of present war ships and would allow starships to float. Note that as hulls or components get more "mechanical" they get more dense. Also as ships become more technolocially advanced, they might use lighter materials and other means, such as the SIF, to hold the ship together. As a result, the ship would become less dense. I have calculated the EntA primary hull to have a density of about 0.598 t/m3. I woulld expect that Galaxy would be even less dense. As I mentioned earlier, each person on TOS Ent needs about 440 cubic meters. This is not the actual living space, but the amount of hull space, usually filled with equipment and fuel, to support one crewman. I have no idea how large a crewman's actual quarters would be. I'm satisfied with this level of detail. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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