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Originally Posted by Fred Brackin
Nope. Spaceships really only hints at length. Streamlined ships or just long thin cylinders can be 2x as long as mostly box-like ones. 3x or more compared to spheres.
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I'd forgotten the thing about streamlined ships, but the lengths in the table are for "typical cylinders". There's no indication you can stretch them out significantly beyond what's in the table without the same DR handicap streamlined ships face. Note: two miles is 3,520 yards. SM+19 is 3,000 yards, while SM+20 is 5,000 yards. An SM+18 ship that was two miles long would be 175% of the typical length for an unstreamlined ship, which I think would be an issue for DR.