Steve Jackson Games Forums - [Spacehips] Firefly / Serenity (TV Series)

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Originally Posted by Fred Brackin

The result of this is that when the shipbuilding system for the Star Trek RPG came out the mass of the engines for the Constitution-class Starship had to take up 170,000 tons out of the ship's 190,000 tons.

Yup. In FASATrek, the warp engines were usually at least 80-90% the mass of most ships. Treknobabble explanation was 'shielding'.

As a result, Klingon engines were usually somewhat lighter than everyone else's, because Klingons weren't as concerned with crew safety in their secondary hulls (where the engines were located)....:)