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Langy · 01-28-2009, 03:49 PM

An important note - if you put roughly 15 armor modules on a ship, then that's about enough for that ship to be one SM smaller than normal, because armor is more dense than, say, a habitat module (or nearly anythign else).

This allows you to get extremely heavily armored craft - because the armor is over the same area as a ship one SM smaller, each of those armor modules is equivalent to three armor modules of one size smaller. This would make a 300,000 ton ship, which is normally SM+13, SM+12, and allow each of those fifteen modules of steel armor to provide 60 dDR. That means this SM+12 hyperdense ship would have 300 dDR if it were all made from steel - and thus you can have SM+12 ships or stations that have long-term protection from radiation as well.

01-28-2009, 03:49 PM	#5
Langy Join Date: May 2008 Location: CA	Re: [Spaceships] Habitat observations An important note - if you put roughly 15 armor modules on a ship, then that's about enough for that ship to be one SM smaller than normal, because armor is more dense than, say, a habitat module (or nearly anythign else). This allows you to get extremely heavily armored craft - because the armor is over the same area as a ship one SM smaller, each of those armor modules is equivalent to three armor modules of one size smaller. This would make a 300,000 ton ship, which is normally SM+13, SM+12, and allow each of those fifteen modules of steel armor to provide 60 dDR. That means this SM+12 hyperdense ship would have 300 dDR if it were all made from steel - and thus you can have SM+12 ships or stations that have long-term protection from radiation as well.