>>I'm curious is there a minimum size that starships can be built?<<
Before TNE, 100 tons was the minimum size. TNE said that starships could
have displacements less than 100 tons. It cause quite the outcry among
the canonistas. I'm not sure if there was an official compromise, but I
think I remember something about needing TL-15 drives to do it. That
being said, there's a TL-15 "Jboat" in Regency Sourcebook which consists
of a 30 ton Ship's Boat with a 25 ton jump module welded on the back.
>>Using rules I found in the site Traveller in the DED zone---Heretical
engineering. Jump
drives built for micro jumps "in system" are half the size of a jump-1
drive for
the same size ship. So a 2m3 drive would give J-0 to a 200m3 volume(14.285D
Ton) ship.<<
Ack! Those are Heretical rules! I didn't think anyone outside of MTU
would use them! You could be burned alive for using them! ; )
I didn't intend for the jump drives themselves to be shrunk, **only the
fuel required** to achieve the microjump. Since previous editions all
had minimum sizes required for jump drives, I stuck with that concept. I
figured that the ship's jump drives need to be a minimum size in order
to open the hole into jumpspace or create the bubble that surrounds the
ship or whatever explanation you use to describe jumps in Traveller.
And if you know what's good for you, never use those rules again! ; )
>>In FFS-1 page 61, fuel processors the minimum size, is that the
minimum size of
the fuel processor machinery or is that the minimum volume of the fuel
processed? <<
Minimum size of processor machinery. As TL improves, engineers figure
out how to shrink the equipment.
Is there any chance you could post your Ridgerunner specs into a regular
post. When I use Word to open the wps file you uploaded, I get a lot of
ASCII garbage. I could edit it, but it would take a long time. =)
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Rogerclarktopaz wrote:
A question was raised about ore processors a short while ago and as iI
used an
ore processor in one of my designs, below are the stats I used.
I'm curious is there a minimum size that starships can be built? In
FFS-1 page
42 it states that the smallest a jump drive can be made is 2m3. Using
rules I
found in the site Traveller in the DED zone---Heretical engineering. Jump
drives built for micro jumps "in system" are half the size of a jump-1
drive for
the same size ship. So a 2m3 drive would give J-0 to a 200m3 volume(14.285D
Ton) ship.
In FFS-1 page 61, fuel processors the minimum size, is that the minimum
size of
the fuel processor machinery or is that the minimum volume of the fuel
processed? I have always gone with it being the minimum size of the
machinery,
meaning that a minimal TL-12 processor would process 200m3/6 hours. Its just
the way the last line under the chart is worded that puts a question
mark in my
mind.
Ore Processors
TL Volume Mass Power Price Output
12 1m3 0.5 0.6mw 0.003 0.018m3/hour*
Mass: is /m3
Power: is /m3
Price: is /m3
Output: is m3
*Depending on the richness of the ore deposit.
There is no minimum size so I suppose you could design a processor as
small as
one of those portable power generators you see at construction sites. Ore
processors need attendance one hour/day/m3. I suspect this would entail
pouring
the molten ore into forms and changing the full forms for empties.