(MGT1) The biggest primitive rocket

[TheDark]

I decided to goof around a bit and bend the rules from Golden Age Starships' Archaic Small Craft rules for launch vehicles. It says to strap multiple launch vehicles together if you want a vehicle larger than 100 tons. Buuuut...I decided to to a Sea Dragon. Calculating it as a cylinder plus a cone, I came up with a displacement of approximately 3800 dTons. So, using High Guard to figure out the necessary equipment for a hull code CB rocket, here's what I wound up with:

Sea Dragon​	​	​	Tons​	Price (MCr)​
Hull​	3800 tons​	​	​	380.00​
​	Streamlined​	​	​	​
Armor​	None​	​	​	​
Maneuver Drive 4​	4G​	Reaction​	66.5​	33.25​
Power Plant 4​	Rating 4​	Chemical​	159.6​	199.50​
Fuel​	0.25 Thrust-Hours​	3 Hours Power​	3054.25​	​
Bridge​	​	​	1.5​	19.00​
Computer​	Model/1​	​	​	0.03​
Cargo​	​	​	480.15​	​
Extras​	Parachute​	​	38​	3.80​
​	​	Total​	3800​	635.83​

The parachute makes the rocket reusable. If you really need to get 500 dTons to orbit in a single launch it can be removed. That ends up being a very expensive launch, though, since you're throwing away a ~630 MCr rocket.

This was mostly just me seeing how much I could stretch the rules and have a little fun with ridiculously big primitive rockets. If anyone finds a use for it, great!

 

[Grav_Moped]

Needs more struts.

 

[TheDark]

I made a math error - it should be 635.58 MCr total. I had a placeholder 0.25 MCr in one of the fields while figuring out what the actual cost would be, and forgot to remove the 0.25 MCr when I found the correct cost.