On 12/31/2020 9:16 PM, Rupert Boleyn wrote:
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> On 01Jan2021 1253, Kurt Feltenberger wrote:
>> A new video just dropped regarding fueling /Dilbar /(the largest
>> yacht by volume/power)...and that is something that would get the
>> ground crews at a starport talking...
>>
>> https://youtu.be/w2bdHMgk2vU
>>
>> (If my math is right...)
>> Granted, fuel in Traveller is rather cheap (Cr500/ton). /Dilbar/
>> carries just above 1,000,000 liters of fuel, and if we use
>> 13.5kliters = 1 ton, it is 74 tons of fuel, or Cr37,000.  In the real
>> world, that same 1m liters of fuel would cost ~$750k...
> If you go by volume. If you go by mass it's about 830 tonnes, and will
> cost ~KCr415.

Yet, Traveller goes by volume...

> By volume that fuel implies a 700 DTon J-1 ship, or a 350 DTon J-2,
> 200 DTon J-3, 150 DTon J-4, 100 DTon J-5 or J-6.
>
> By mass, we get ~8,000 DTons at J-1, 4,000 at J-2, 2,500 at J-3, 2,000
> at J-4, 1,500 at J-5, and 1,000 at J-6.
>
> That feels a bit small using volume, assuming that a yacht will do
> better than J-1. For the 'biggest yacht ever' it looks pretty good for
> mass at J-2 or more, I think.

It think it's going to be difficult to translate Dilbar directly into a
Traveller analogue because we have nothing to use the volume that a
J-drive or J-fuel would require.  If we keep it as a non-starship, she
would probably have something on the order of M3 or so, perhaps M4.

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