[3e] Statting a spaceship radiator

[GURPS Fox]

Originally Posted by Anthony

I'm not sure where "A = 32887.67616m^2 / 354000cf " comes from -- I'm pretty sure A is just 32887m^2. Other than that, 4,303,125,000,000 is 4.3TW, not 4.3PW.

I will, however, observe that HEPlaR is not a THS term, and TNE HEPlaR is superscience.

Well, HePlaR was on a THS list of alternate rockets a while back (the PDF's name is literally 'alternative engines'). Though, when designing this, it was an early 'star corvette' (aka FTL space corvette) designed for long-term patrol duties, requiring HePlaR to allow tankage for a long-term patrol (this is due to a quirk of the phase drive, as once a gravity well is of sufficient size, you have to drop out of phase space, meaning that sufficiently large asteroids or groups of asteroids can cause you to have to exit out of FTL, as the linked image demonstrates; please note that the gravity well scales with the object at the center of the gravity well) as early on the logistics network isn't entirely there yet due to most colonies being very underdeveloped as everyone is trying to set up colonies left and right.

In addition, I assumed that TL10 fusion rockets are 1000sf/2 Spaces, 708/2 = 354, and multiplying that by 1000 means 354000sf, which, when converted to square meters (via a unit converter), is 32887.67616m^2...

Also, thanks for checking my math. :)