Re: [TML] MT: COACC Guardian-Class Orbital Battle Station Ethan McKinney (06 Jul 2019 19:52 UTC)
Re: [TML] MT: COACC Guardian-Class Orbital Battle Station Ethan McKinney (15 Jul 2019 05:52 UTC)
Re: [TML] MT: COACC Guardian-Class Orbital Battle Station Rupert Boleyn (15 Jul 2019 21:13 UTC)
Re: [TML] MT: COACC Guardian-Class Orbital Battle Station Bruce Johnson (15 Jul 2019 21:13 UTC)
Re: [TML] MT: COACC Guardian-Class Orbital Battle Station Ethan McKinney (15 Jul 2019 23:07 UTC)
Re: [TML] MT: COACC Guardian-Class Orbital Battle Station Rupert Boleyn (16 Jul 2019 01:28 UTC)
Re: [TML] MT: COACC Guardian-Class Orbital Battle Station Ethan McKinney (16 Jul 2019 21:39 UTC)
Re: [TML] MT: COACC Guardian-Class Orbital Battle Station Ethan McKinney (17 Jul 2019 14:17 UTC)
Re: [TML] MT: COACC Guardian-Class Orbital Battle Station Cian Witherspoon (19 Jul 2019 06:15 UTC)
Re: [TML] MT: COACC Guardian-Class Orbital Battle Station Bruce Johnson (19 Jul 2019 20:28 UTC)
Re: [TML] MT: COACC Guardian-Class Orbital Battle Station Cian Witherspoon (19 Jul 2019 20:38 UTC)
Re: [TML] MT: COACC Guardian-Class Orbital Battle Station Ethan McKinney (20 Jul 2019 05:08 UTC)
Re: [TML] MT: COACC Guardian-Class Orbital Battle Station Bruce Johnson (20 Jul 2019 23:06 UTC)
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Re: [TML] MT: COACC Guardian-Class Orbital Battle Station Phil Pugliese (21 Jul 2019 14:39 UTC)
Re: [TML] MT: COACC Guardian-Class Orbital Battle Station Rupert Boleyn (21 Jul 2019 16:17 UTC)
Re: [TML] MT: COACC Guardian-Class Orbital Battle Station Phil Pugliese (21 Jul 2019 18:56 UTC)
Re: [TML] MT: COACC Guardian-Class Orbital Battle Station Rupert Boleyn (21 Jul 2019 05:14 UTC)
Re: [TML] MT: COACC Guardian-Class Orbital Battle Station Bruce Johnson (20 Jul 2019 23:04 UTC)

Re: [TML] MT: COACC Guardian-Class Orbital Battle Station Rupert Boleyn 21 Jul 2019 05:14 UTC

On 21Jul2019 1320, Thomas RUX wrote:
> Howdy Bruce,
>
>> On July 20, 2019 at 4:04 PM Bruce Johnson
>> <xxxxxx@Pharmacy.Arizona.EDU> wrote: The problem is that all of
>> the Traveller design sequences are woefully deficient regarding
>> the state of automation even for the time they were published.
>
> MT does, in my opinion, deal with automation by using a computer. The
> higher the CP Multiplier the fewer control panels needed which
> reduces the crew requirements. TNE FF&S Step 9 p. 13 uses a similar
> format as MT, though I did not find any mention of automation. T4
> FF&S p. 71 Controls discusses automation.

One thing to remember is that a 'small' ship of say 400 DTons will mass
2,000-4,000 tons, and in CT have a crew of 5-6 (a Type M merchant) to 18
(a Type T patrol cruiser), while in TNE they had crews of 9 and 19
respectively. That implies a fair bit of automation - the warships have
crews about 1/10th as large as those of 2-4kTon frigates today, and
about the same per ton mass as USS Zumwalt does.

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Rupert Boleyn <xxxxxx@gmail.com>
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