On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 3:36 PM, Cheng Tseng <xxxxxx@kennett.net> wrote:

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> ObTrva: I am still confused over how Traveller gets the displacement tons from the mass and vice versa, for a ship design.

That's easy, dunk the hull in liquid hydrogen and that is the
displacement volume in tons of hydrogen.

>I always thought that going to a pure mass system (A la David Weber's Honor Harrington.) might be less confusing.

Volume is easier to draw deckplans with..... 8-)

As for webber I don't remember an tonnages in Starfire....

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Evyn