Re: Tons, tons and more tons - Was: Are Attached files ok?

--- Charles Taylor <nerik@?????????.?????.??.uk>
wrote:

> Fortunately, I have the book here: 1 HJ ton is
> equivalent to a 10' × 10' × 10' cube. 1 ton means
> enough air for 1 man-sized creature for 4
> months.
>
> From calculating the volumes of their ships, at
> least the easy to calculate ones, like the beholder
> doomship (a cone) does tend to match the ships
> volume assuming 1 ton is a 10' cube.

> Divide by 10×10×10 to get volume in HJ tons = 83.78
> tones.
> Actual listed tonnage = 80 tons - which is close
> enough.

It should; I was very careful to make the ships fairly
internally consistent in terms of tonnage.  We went
with the 1 ton = 1,000 cf because of all the various
systems, that one matches closest to most classic SJ
ships, barring exceptions like scorpions, nautaloids,
& mindspiders.  Using that system, ships like the MoW,
hammership, & squid work out to their listed tonnage,
to a reasonable margin of error (and ignoring the fact
that most of said ships are "missing" a few decks,
like the dragonfly & tradesmen ;) ).

I've found that no matter what you do, there just is
no system that will work for all SJ ships; the
tonnages are too damned inconsistent.  A lot of "big"
ships end up not much more than boats (scorpion,
mindspider, nightwolf), while some smaller ships end
up behemoths (nautaloid, werewolf).  And if you use
the artwork as a guide, it gets even worse...the
whaleship is 90 tons, but the deckplans make it much
bigger, and the art makes it insanely huge.  From the
number of window rows, it should rival the size of our
largest cruise liners! :O

Adam



       
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