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Old 08-21-2017, 01:08 PM   #77
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Default Re: [Game] Generate a military sci-fi setting

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Originally Posted by Daigoro View Post
I fiddled around with ericbsmith's GURPS Spaceships spreadsheet a bit to figure out spaceship size, and it ended up being way smaller than I expected. For 1 billion passengers, I think it was SM+24 or something, only 10 miles long, for the population of China. I wasn't sure what to do with that though, so left it there.
Given the way we have the drives working, the bow-front field is going to be equivalent in virtual mass to a very large multiple of the SM-mass equivalent. I can probably do the math later. The matter part of the ship is just the part you see.
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