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Originally Posted by warellis
As for the dton, yeah I know about that. I don't understand why such a unit was used for Traveller. Is there an out-of-universe explanation?
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It's the Jump fuel. For liquid hydrogen the dTon and mass ton are the same thing and this makes the rule that ships require 10% of their tonnage per Jump number simple.
For other matters liquid hydrogen is a phenomenally low density item and oddities result.