Those are very nicely done. Looks like they store at 3x-4x volume, so a
cargo capacity of 1200+ tons. Blows the official design out of the water,
but hey, even fake reality asserts itself.
On Mon, Nov 13, 2017 at 11:31 PM, 'David Jaques-Watson'
[Traveller_TNE] <> wrote:
>
>
> Dear Folks -
>
> "Bwana" Dave wrote:
> >It would be even easier to retcon that the X-boat tender didn't have an
> >enclosed shirt-sleeve hangar for X-boats it "carries"; it could have
> >external grapples to grab onto them and maintain them and even jump with
> >them. End of quandary. Now we're back to how much waste space there is in
> a
> >ship that carried a small craft and needs room to turn it around, take it
> >apart, put it up on jacks, maneuver it to its launch and entry ports, and
> >allow cargo to be efficiently carried to and loaded aboard it.
>
> What you need is magmagmag's magnificent jaw-dropping image of the X-boat
> Tender in all its glory, grappling and maintaining a couple of X-boats..
>
> Take a look at the rounded cargo bay walls here:
>
> https://i.pinimg.com/originals/f8/73/d3/f873d3652344baf5974b4f7cb3fec4
> a6.jpg
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------
> David "Hyphen" Jaques-Watson ..at.. Beowulf Down (Tavonni/Vilis/SM 1520)
> http://www.tip.net.au/~davidjw
> "I file things in historical order, with a hashing algorithm of gravity"
>
>
>
cargo capacity of 1200+ tons. Blows the official design out of the water,
but hey, even fake reality asserts itself.
On Mon, Nov 13, 2017 at 11:31 PM, 'David Jaques-Watson'
[Traveller_TNE] <> wrote:
>
>
> Dear Folks -
>
> "Bwana" Dave wrote:
> >It would be even easier to retcon that the X-boat tender didn't have an
> >enclosed shirt-sleeve hangar for X-boats it "carries"; it could have
> >external grapples to grab onto them and maintain them and even jump with
> >them. End of quandary. Now we're back to how much waste space there is in
> a
> >ship that carried a small craft and needs room to turn it around, take it
> >apart, put it up on jacks, maneuver it to its launch and entry ports, and
> >allow cargo to be efficiently carried to and loaded aboard it.
>
> What you need is magmagmag's magnificent jaw-dropping image of the X-boat
> Tender in all its glory, grappling and maintaining a couple of X-boats..
>
> Take a look at the rounded cargo bay walls here:
>
> https://i.pinimg.com/originals/f8/73/d3/f873d3652344baf5974b4f7cb3fec4
> a6.jpg
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------
> David "Hyphen" Jaques-Watson ..at.. Beowulf Down (Tavonni/Vilis/SM 1520)
> http://www.tip.net.au/~davidjw
> "I file things in historical order, with a hashing algorithm of gravity"
>
>
>