(spaceships) SM based Hull dST/HP

[Rupert]

Originally Posted by jacobmuller

I have the awareness of the average brick.
I've just realised that the values are off by 1 SM, ie, SM +5 is given as 30ton, dST 20 (pg SS9), but if I used the values in Basic Set Campaigns (pg b558) , it should be dST 15.
Can anyone tell me, has this oddity been clarified, please?
TQ

I don't recall if it has, but I've always just assumed that it's considered to be due to compartmentalisation, redundancies, etc. From a game design perspective, it's probably to help beef ships up a bit so they don't die (quite) as fast when hit by large guns and hyper-velocity missiles.