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OTOH I really appreciate your help in the discussion about superscience reactors and drives, so I guess that sort of balances out. :) My apologies to the OP for this unpleasant sidetrack.
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I will warn anyone converting "canonical" numbers from fiction into game mechanics: science fiction writers usually do not know how numbers work. Things like ships apparently made out of balsa wood or the borders of alien empires being inside the orbit of Neptune.
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The limitations and biases of the medium greatly effect which numbers on which things are dependable and reliable. As the milenium falcon is a prop that appears multiple times in multiple places and needs to look consistent with humans standing next to it, I'd trust the length, width, height, and shape to be consistent, and you can extrapolate from there.
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This leads into my recommendation for the OP - do not use the size of ships in other systems or non-game settings as more than a rough guide. Use their capabilities. Falcon can carry a few people, a few cubic metres of hidden cargo, and (presumably, as we never see it doing so) some more normal cargo - say a room full (about 50-100 cubic metres, and thus around 25 tons). It goes very fast in normal and FTL travel, has decent defences for a souped-up freighter, and what seems like a fairly heavy armament. That could be SM+7, but might be SM+8 because of the number of very heavy (in Spaceships) systems the high performance requires (though Star Wars ships seem to use screens, not armour, and are probably TL11^, which helps with that). There's a Falcon look-alike in one of the Spaceships books, as I recall.
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One wants to use any and all game stats as relative measures v. other game entities with no connection to RW objects. I once had a fellow with a Traveller background tell me that an X-Wing was like a 100 dTon ship. Then there's another camp (possibly quite a small one) that makes connecctions between things and figures out things they imply. If you tell me that 1 whatever is 500 sq. ft. for purposes of drawing deckplans then that has firm implications for the ship's exterior as well as its' interior.
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