Wow! Thanks man! This is immensely helpful. Really puts it into perspective.
I overlooked the lack of inertial compensators. That's nuts!
Taking another look at the other ships, I see that a lot of them
went without them, but they're listed as either 1 or 2G.
One point of clarification: You say the ship is capable of 4G. I'm
assuming that's part of the errata as the book has it rated at 1G.
I hadn't gotten around to plugging the numbers in to reverse
engineer the hit points to actual tonnage yet to confirm that, but
the Aek Naz, which is three times the size, has the same
maneuver drive HP and also 1G. Or maybe it's wrong too. I should
probably look to see if I've got the MT errata somewhere around
here.
Thanks again!
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DED
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First caveat: the ship as published is a mess. The Errata is required.
The Foghoks is over half fuel and cargo, at about 5,300 tons out of the 10,000, so already you're down to a King Richard for detailed size. Missile magazine is another 150 tons or so.-Eight bays take another chunk out of that, though at TL11 Rating 7, they are only 50 ton bays. Still, that's another 400 tons that become pretty simple.-151 Staterooms. Another 604 tons.-Bridge size is not straightforward in MT and TNE, but the USP lists 13 Bridge Crew and 20 Command Crew. I think you can assume at least 30 tons of "walk around" Bridge, and maybe more. Not all of those Command crew are Bridge dressing...-Of the 3,600 tons left, around 1,166 are just the Power Plant. Jump Drive is another 300 tons, and the Maneuver Drive is 1,100 tons.-The two shuttles are another 200 or so total.-The last 600 odd tons is incidentals and no-maps like Life Support and gravity. Oh, and airlocks, which your gang WILL want to know about.
So more than half of the ship is fuel and cargo, and more than half of the rest is drives and bays. More than a third of what's left after that is staterooms.
As a 10k Needle/Wedge under MT, the ship will be between 160 (wedge) and 192 (Needle) meters in length under TNE design terms. That would normally mean decks between 80 and 96 TNE grid in length. BUT. The ship has no Inertial Compensation. It becomes either an old school space opera design with everyone strapped in, or at least some of the ship is stacked instead. And the ship is capable of 4G...
In TNE context, this thing was a deathtrap well before Virus hit it.
I'd say the ship is heavily segmented, built to handle changing gravity and still provide crew access, if not comfort. Weird "grav lock" stairways, ladders on t! he ceilings, swiveling bunks. No long grav pong hallways, though.