Nope, it's no good, still bored. So, I'm going to plan my colony.
200 people each bring one shipping container. I'll abstract that to 25 short tons. Yeah that's 600 tons difference by the time you add them all up, but I'd rather have spare weight to play with at the end than the other way around.
Use the SM+6 sections: One SM+6 section, 5 tons, one cabin or cargo hold. There are 5 sections per container. Put 4 containers together and you have yourself one SM+6 ship. So your colony is a fleet of 50 SM+6 ships. ... in sections. ... or it's 5000 tons, which is an SM+9 and a couple of SM+8s. It is not two 9s or one 10, it's not that big.
8s or 9s could have a hangar bay. But since each container is itself SM+5, they cannot carry a ship of SM+5 within them. Possibly the parts to build one, but not the assembled ship itself. Sadly.
So it matters that you've got two fireflies (SM+8) and probably an Enterprise (SM+9), but only so you can get your head around how complex it can get. Each part has to fit in SM+5, which is the other reason for saying mass 25, because that leaves 5 for carting the other 25 around on.
Right then. 25 tons is 17ish sections in SM+5, 5 sections in SM+6, less than 2 in SM+7, and half an SM+8. If something can only exist in a vehicle SM+8 or bigger, it can't exist in our containers. Use the SM+6 column.
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200 people each bring one shipping container. I'll abstract that to 25 short tons. Yeah that's 600 tons difference by the time you add them all up, but I'd rather have spare weight to play with at the end than the other way around.
Use the SM+6 sections: One SM+6 section, 5 tons, one cabin or cargo hold. There are 5 sections per container. Put 4 containers together and you have yourself one SM+6 ship. So your colony is a fleet of 50 SM+6 ships. ... in sections. ... or it's 5000 tons, which is an SM+9 and a couple of SM+8s. It is not two 9s or one 10, it's not that big.
8s or 9s could have a hangar bay. But since each container is itself SM+5, they cannot carry a ship of SM+5 within them. Possibly the parts to build one, but not the assembled ship itself. Sadly.
So it matters that you've got two fireflies (SM+8) and probably an Enterprise (SM+9), but only so you can get your head around how complex it can get. Each part has to fit in SM+5, which is the other reason for saying mass 25, because that leaves 5 for carting the other 25 around on.
Right then. 25 tons is 17ish sections in SM+5, 5 sections in SM+6, less than 2 in SM+7, and half an SM+8. If something can only exist in a vehicle SM+8 or bigger, it can't exist in our containers. Use the SM+6 column.