Originally posted by Beholder:
</font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by Tom Schoene:
[QBA ton in Traveller spaceship design is a "displacement ton" equal to 14 cubic meters. That's a space of roughly 1.5m x 3m x 3m.
(In case you're wondering, this is not the same as the actual mass of the ship; it's just a measure of volume. One displacement ton is approximately the volume of one metric ton of liquid hydrogen.)