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Originally Posted by warellis
Hmm so it sounds like Traveller military ship armor is like this from the Aliens-verse setting in regards to ship armor?:
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Not really. It's generally much simpler. Merchant ships usually get by with c. 35mm of steel or titanium while a 500,000 dTon Tigress-class Battleship uses 3 meters of "Bonded superdense" a superscience produced metal with 2x the density of steel and 14x the protective qualities.
Also, I want to emphasize that Traveller armor isn't weak compared to physical impacts it's that KE missiles that accelerate at 10Gs for an hour will explode on impact like tactical nukes. Even that merchant ship's DR 100 will cause a .50 BMG with APHC ammo to bounce off without damage.
Traveller capital ships will also usually have a "nuclear damper" a superscience device that prevents the detonation of nuclear weapons within a certain radius of the ship.