[Spaceships] Biological Ships: Food Consumption

[Varyon]

Originally Posted by RyanW

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.

The example is of an ST 100 bioship. That would be SM+4 and 10 tons, or about the size of a small whale or rather large elephant (largest recorded elephant was around 10 tons). That makes sense. A dST 100 bioship would be SM+9 and 3,000 tons, or about 15x the mass of the largest known organism to ever live. That seems rather excessive, so I'd imagine that the intent was indeed to be ST rather than dST (although I'd need to read SS8 to know - I'm not interested in TS so I never bought it).
EDIT: Misremembered the scaling - SM 0 is ST 30, and ST 100 would be SM+3 and 3 tons. The point stands, however (in fact, it's now even worse - a human-size bioship consumes 60% of its mass every day).

Originally Posted by vicky_molokh

Ah, there we are then. Honestly, 10%/day makes a lot more sense than 1%, so I'd say we should indeed go with that.