Well the problem is that it is now linear at all.
If you make a Model/1 Starship computer with the CDS, you end up with a value to convert EP.
If you run the same calculations with a Model/6 computer, you end up with another scale for the vehicular EPs.
The easiest to get everything in line (as it is clear we want to be able to use the HG designs) would be to change the EP requirements (at the vehicular scale) of the CDS to put them in line with the EP requirements (at the SDS scale) of the starship computers.
I have tried to get a scale for those bloody vehicular EPs compared to starship EPs (just to be able to use vehicular components in starships, I'd love to have robotic arms on my Far Trader, just to help me to unload those pesky trucks) but then again depending on where you start the scale does not scale.
Or it's exponential
which is not the best way to convert something as output power...
At that point I gave up and said, well let's use it as it is written and stop worrying about it being compatible.
So when my players ask, my answer is : the power voltage does not fit and no one has a clue on how to convert the starship output into power that is useable for vehicles components. (In one case, the EPs are actually a measure of mechanical power and the other is a measure of electrical power
)
Whatever, they don't have any money to transform their starship.
And I'll make sure they will never enough to even start considering ⌧ing with that
*nasty DM grin*
Francois