Morning all,
The MT: COACC project is still on-going but has been diverted by the Guardian-Class Orbital Battle Station while I'm trying to build a new spreadsheet for the MT Referee's Manual Craft Design procedure with errata following on the two part article A MegaTraveller Starship Design Example by Joe D. Fugate Sr. (Traveller Digest #13 and #21) that was edited by Donald McKinney.
During the process of building the new spreadsheet I may have figured out the reason why the designer used a 100-ton missile which fits with the comments made by Cian Weatherspoon and Thomas Jones-Low.
The MT Referee's Manual does not have a means to build non-standard systems that give the same punch as a spacecraft missile bay or turret. In this case the designer used a 100-ton bay.
The MT Consolidated Errata does add rocket launchers and miscellaneous slug throwers which does not help the Guardian-Class.
I took a look at CT Striker Book 3 but the ranges of the communicators appear to be to short and moved on to TNE FF&S Mk I Mod 1 (January 1994) using Space Missile Launchers procedure on page 151 substituting the data from MT Referee's Manual Craft Design tables.
In FF&S the standard space missile launcher has a standard-crew station, a 300,000 km range laser communicator, and one or more launchers. Additions may include active and passive sensors, master fire control directors, and mechanical reloaders.
A search of my PDF MT Referee's Manual did not find a table of master fire control directors or reloaders so those additions are not considered.
The specifics for a missile magazine with a mechanical reloader is not in MT Referee's Manual either but they are computed using the specifications of the missile being used so I used them when designing a missile launcher system for the Guardian-Class Orbital Battle Station. At least I'm hoping that I followed the directions and made the correct modifications to convert TNE to MT
50 Tube Missile Launcher System TL 12
Adequate Crew Position: Volume = 3 kl; Weight = 0.02 MT; Price = Cr100
Planetary Radio Communicator: Volume = 0.0026 kl; Weight = 0.0013 MT; Price = Cr30,000
50 tubes: Volume = 5 kl; Weight = 2.5 MT; Price = Cr3,500
50 missile magazine: Volume = 5 kl; Weight = 1.75 DT; Price = Cr175
50 mechanical reloaders: Volume = 2.5 kl; Weight = 1.25; Price = Cr250
TL 12 50 Tube Missile Launcher System with Planetary Radio Communicator
Volume = 15.5026 kl; Weight = 5.5213; Price = Cr34,025
50 Tube Missile Launcher System TL 12
Adequate Crew Position: Volume = 3 kl; Weight = 0.02 MT; Price = Cr100
Planetary Laser Communicator: Volume = 0.0036 kl; Weight = 0.0018 MT; Price = Cr36,000
50 tubes: Volume = 5 kl; Weight = 2.5 MT; Price = Cr3,500
50 missile magazine: Volume = 5 kl; Weight = 1.75 DT; Price = Cr175
50 mechanical reloaders: Volume = 2.5 kl; Weight = 1.25; Price = Cr250
TL 12 50 Tube Missile Launcher System with Planetary Laser Communicator
Volume = 15.5360 kl; Weight = 5.5380; Price = Cr40,025
The data for the launchers is based on one communicator the data changes if there is a communicator for each missile.
Tom Rux
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