[T:IW/SS] Traveller dTon to SS tonnage?

[davester65]

There have been quite a few rule systems for designing Traveler Starships since the original High Guard rules which is pretty much what canonized the dton as a unit of measure (along with the original Traveler rules) and a lot of them also calculated the ships mass along with the volume. I've fiddled with a lot of them and even created a homebrew or two and I'd found that the ships mass usually averaged out to about 3 - 4 tons of mass per dton.