I can't rem where I saw it, but I believe it may have been a TAS journal
entry that covered that topic. basically, the external drop tanks would
allow multiple 1 parsec jumps with a full cargo hold. I can't rem the
displacement of the drop tanks but the offhand guess was 20 tons,
On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 5:06 PM, Ben Greene <>wrote:
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> Get a vac suit, go round the back and push? ;-)
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> On 20 February 2010 20:40, DED <> wrote:
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>> >>The dis mountable tanks are placed in the ore bays. So they are inside
>> the ship and do not increase the volume tonnage of the ship. Its the
>> same as carrying dis mountable tanks in a Cargo hold of a Type A. It
>> just displaces cargo.<<
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>> Then what do you do if your ore bays are full and you've got a 2 parsec
>> jump to make?
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>> \_/
>> DED
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