Keep in mind: all accommodations are assumed to be half the allocated space, with the remainder being accessways.
What X-Boat travels in your universe?
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Straybow
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Half seems excessive. More of a guideline than a rule, no? When the real estate is at a premium, one should be more parsimonious about accessways.
Condottiere
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I believe six squares are a nominal three tonnes.
The other area you can cut corners is ceiling height.
The other area you can cut corners is ceiling height.
Proneutron
SOC-13
Yes, for small ships especially I consider ceilings of no more than 2.3m and above that ~10cm leaves for utilities. That leaves 60cm high x 4.5 m2 = 2.7m3 for each Dt of cabin and corridor.
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Also, small ships--Type S or X-boats--would not need the same ratio, since there just aren't so many rooms to connect.
And XBoats by design probably aren't intended to be repaired by the pilot. Maintenance will be through external hatches rather than internal corridors.
IMTU the entire drive package is a line-replaceable unit. If there's a significant problem, just pull the engines out and slide their replacements in. The malfunctioning or worn drives go back to depot for refurbishment.
This same drive package (a unit composed of a Power Plant B and a Jump Drive B) is also used in the "Scout/Courier, Large" (it's a Marava-class Far Trader but don't tell anyone...). That ship uses two Maneuver Drives A with 1Td of adapters, to get 2G performance. (Out-of-universe, it's a Maneuver Drive B; in-universe, they're spare Scout/Courier maneuver drives.)
In addition to serving as an exploration platform for large crews, they also haul replacement XBoat drives and repair technicians to stranded XBoats.
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Timerover51
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X-Boats, none present. No Scouts either. For that matter, no Imperium. Just a nice distant frontier sector, way out on the Rim.
Wouldn't there be a need for a modicum of additional room in a Type=S if it's going to be out in the dark for several weeks at a stretch or more?
Condottiere
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I don't think it'ssupposed to be comfortable.
Science fiction tropes tend to paint Scoutships as one man missions.
Science fiction tropes tend to paint Scoutships as one man missions.
I'd think they would be designed for high efficiency rather than elbow room.
If it's one Scout in his tiny starship, he's got three extra staterooms to lounge around in (or store provisions). Plenty of room.
I imagine it's for couriers, or dead-heading relief pilots to remote posts.
BackworldTraveller
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What happened to the "None" or "None of the above" options?
In one of my universes no one has invented J4 yet! (and no one can find the reputedly functional jump drive either!)
In the other, J4 - no other details.
In one of my universes no one has invented J4 yet! (and no one can find the reputedly functional jump drive either!)
In the other, J4 - no other details.
Condottiere
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It's a highly specialized ship, since below factor four, you really don't have to figure out how to squeeze in a fifteen tonne jump drive and a forty tonne water tank in a hundred tonne hull.
