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Originally Posted by Fred Brackin
What Traveller calls small ships start as SM+8 but Traveller ships are _huge_. One of their SM+8 100 dTon scout ships would be 500,000 cubic feet or like a 5000 sq,ft house with 10 foot ceilings. Also note that such a vessel would not merely fit inside a rectangle of that volume. It would _fill_ a rectangle of that volume. If the ship wasn't brick-shaped its' external dimensions would be even greater than those of the 5000 sq.ft house.
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For what it's worth, SM+7 gives you a ship about as capable as
Traveller's Type-S scout. A lot of a
Traveller ship tends to be filled up with liquid hydrogen, and thus they often don't mass nearly as much as their size would suggest.
This leads into my recommendation for the OP - do not use the size of ships in other systems or non-game settings as more than a rough guide. Use their capabilities.
Falcon can carry a few people, a few cubic metres of hidden cargo, and (presumably, as we never see it doing so) some more normal cargo - say a room full (about 50-100 cubic metres, and thus around 25 tons). It goes very fast in normal and FTL travel, has decent defences for a souped-up freighter, and what seems like a fairly heavy armament. That could be SM+7, but might be SM+8 because of the number of very heavy (in
Spaceships) systems the high performance requires (though Star Wars ships seem to use screens, not armour, and are probably TL11^, which helps with that).
There's a
Falcon look-alike in one of the
Spaceships books, as I recall.