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Old 05-17-2020, 11:18 AM   #9
Varyon
 
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Default Re: [Skill] Freight Handling/TL IQ-A, B197

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Originally Posted by Ezra View Post
From the "Units and Abbreviations" sidebar on p. 188 of GURPS Traveller: Interstellar Wars:

"dton: A 'displacement ton,' a measure of hull volume. One dton is
equal to 500 cubic feet."
That's problematic for making the comparison, as it makes it difficult to compare the two systems. In Spaceships, 250 tons would take 2.5 man-hours with machinery (25 man-hours without), regardless of if it's a tank of liquid hydrogen or a pile of lead ingots. From the sound of it, in Traveller, 250 tons of liquid hydrogen and around 1220 tons of lead ingots would take the same amount of (undefined) time. If you have to pick one, I'd go with Spaceships - while volume does matter, I think weight is more of a rate limiter, and Spaceships has the advantage of actually giving you a time frame.
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