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Old 07-26-2015, 03:51 PM   #1
soulnafein
 
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Default [SS] Cost of Hydrogen

In GURPS Spaceships page 46 it shows that hydrogen costs $2000 per ton.
In a Traveller style game a typical 100-ton Scout Ship with 60 tons of cargo will need about 20 ton of hydrogen for a 2 parsec jump. That's a cost of $40K.

On GURPS Spaceships 2 it suggests that freight rates are $10 per parsec per day. So in a typical 2 parsec jump in a Traveller universe would be $140 per ton. In the case of full cargo, for the example above it would be a total of $140 * 60 = $8400.

Fuel Cost: $40K
Freight Revenue: $8.4K

What's wrong? Is the hydrogen cost too high or the Freight rates too low?
What changes do you suggest?
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