On 16Aug2019 1529, Richard Aiken wrote:

> Now, one U.S. short ton of water (according to wikipedia) occupies only ~32
> cubic feet versus the ~500 cubic feet of one metric ton of liquid hydrogen.
> Since I want to use a slightly-tweaked version of the ship construction
> rules from Starter Traveller, I figure that redefining "dton" to mean
> "decaton" (ten tons) of water should be about right. Ships get smaller by
> roughly a third, but I don't see that as a significant problem.
>
> If I fudge the dimensions just a *tiny* bit (well within the 20% variance
> mentioned in Starter Traveller), I can also make one decaton equal a 6' x
> 6' x 9' cube. Since Savage Worlds uses 6' combat squares and 9' (after
> allowing one foot worth of underdeck/overhead technical spaces) is a viable
> amount of clearance, I think this is about as perfect a fit as I'm liable
> to get.

For what it's worth, the traditional Traveller DTon of 14 or 13.5 cubic
metres, is roughly 500 cubic feet. A traditional 'ton' in the shipping
trade is 100 cubic feet, or about the volume a ton of mixed loose cargo
uses in a cargo hold. Thus a DTon is about 5 'tons' in the old sense.
Your decaton is a little over 3 of these volumetric tons.

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