Scott Martin
SOC-13
Geting away from WW2 "back to the future" you can build a "blockade pod" just under 5Td (a 5m diameter sphere) using FF&S which will carry a payload of about 20 T (15 cubic meters) with an accelleration of 7 G's, for a cost under 6 MCr (not counting the strap-on missiles)
Of course if you aren't using accelleration based on mass, and do the 10T/displacement ton thing, then rate this beast at 14G
This is at Tech/12 (the lowest tech at which this is even feasable) at tech 13 things look a lot better (double the power/weight of the fusion plants running the HEPLAR, accounting for about 70% of the weight and most of the cost) and at Tech/15 these are almost efficient delivery vehicles.
On the WW2 distraction, don't forget that in space there is nothing to hide under and most "natural" bodies are very cold: shuting down your fusion plant doesn't shed the latent heat from your multi-megawatt powerplant, and your "short burn" will be noticable out past the OOrt belt with anyone who is looking (Since HEPLAR is a *massive* X-Ray source due to the exit velocity of the plasma)
If anyone wants info on the "Blockade pods" I'll clean them up and post them, if not they'll go into my "mostly done" file for when I need something like that.
They'd also make a fairly decent lifeboat / escape pod, but I have a much more cost-effective (and survival effective) deep space lifeboat somewhere in this clutter...
Scott Martin
Crunched some numbers, and a "Blockade Pod
Of course if you aren't using accelleration based on mass, and do the 10T/displacement ton thing, then rate this beast at 14G
This is at Tech/12 (the lowest tech at which this is even feasable) at tech 13 things look a lot better (double the power/weight of the fusion plants running the HEPLAR, accounting for about 70% of the weight and most of the cost) and at Tech/15 these are almost efficient delivery vehicles.
On the WW2 distraction, don't forget that in space there is nothing to hide under and most "natural" bodies are very cold: shuting down your fusion plant doesn't shed the latent heat from your multi-megawatt powerplant, and your "short burn" will be noticable out past the OOrt belt with anyone who is looking (Since HEPLAR is a *massive* X-Ray source due to the exit velocity of the plasma)
If anyone wants info on the "Blockade pods" I'll clean them up and post them, if not they'll go into my "mostly done" file for when I need something like that.
They'd also make a fairly decent lifeboat / escape pod, but I have a much more cost-effective (and survival effective) deep space lifeboat somewhere in this clutter...
Scott Martin
Crunched some numbers, and a "Blockade Pod