[Spaceships] Biological Ships: Food Consumption

[RyanW]

Originally Posted by Varyon

That SS8 figure seems... off. A living spaceship probably isn't going to need to burn as much energy staying warm as a human (it's cold in space, but you don't lose heat all that readily) and isn't going to be burning calories moving around (its drives do that for it), yet a human-sized (SM 0, ST 20) bioship is going to consume 20x as much food as a human (or 80 lb/day). As the ship weighs 200 lb, that means it's eating 40% of its body mass every day.

I assume that's supposed to be using the Spaceships standard dST. That man-sized bioship would have a dST of 2 and require twice the food of a human. That is says ST instead of dST should probably be considered errata.