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Old 02-13-2019, 06:05 PM   #2
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Default Re: [Spaceships] Hydroponics and food vats

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Originally Posted by Agemegos View Post
[*] At TL9 or above you can equip habitat systems with total life support, which halves passenger capacity but provides food. That implies that the food-producing system for a person masses 1.25 tons if the person is in a bunkroom. 2.5 tons if they are sharing a stateroom, 5 tons if they have an unshared stateroom, or ten tons if they occupy a luxury suite.
Note that you can also provide no life support and double the capacity. This implies that the basic air and water recycling system masses about 1 ton. A habitat 'slice' weighs 8.333 tons or 7.5 tons, depending on the ship's SM, averaging about 8 tons, so a standard bunk is 2 tons, and as taking out the life support doubles the capacity, that means the life support is half that, or one ton.

I assume that you are using a five-ton slice for a habitat cabin space, based on how much steerage you get for it, but steerage cargo has at least some life support for it.
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