Spaceships Building Troy [spoilers]

[chandley]

Originally Posted by isf

I think that they had grav plates in many of the pressurized areas.

I was avoiding super science, simply because I didnt know if the source material had it.

Why a TL 11 drive instead of a regular Orion Drive?

Because the TL 7 "Orion Drive" is pathetic, deltaV wise. And a trillion tons of fission based bombs just to eek out 2.33mps is madness at the kind of TL your suggesting :). The Advanced Fusion Pulse drive is still throwing out massive explosions behind it, they just arent nuclear bombs.

SO a more accurate but messier build would have 3 cargo sections total with each of them having sub modules for weapons, habitats and the like?

You dont want 3 cargo sections with sub modules, the way I list stuff, I put the smaller modules in indented lists. So, that Rear Section 6 basically contains all the weight allocated for anything thats not empty space in the center of the ship or the iron hull. Simply list whatever other modules (up to a combined total of 270 billion tons or another 9 SM+23 modules or combinations of smaller modules that add up to that. e.g. 1,800,000 SM +15 modules, which is why I dont bother to actually list details...) there.

IIRC, the ship uses a matter annihilation power source that runs on He3.

Why you would combine He3 with matter annihilation is beyond me, even as super science techno babble... but its John Ringo, so meh :). Call em Super Fusion (TL 11) power plants and let it ride.