[Pax]

Originally posted by trooper:
don't be ridiculous... look at what a 100000 tons ship would look like :

http://www.kryon.com/cruise%202003/cruise4more.html

I think it's definitively not the size of a scout ship. Moreover, spaceships are built in light materials, so they would be even bigger. Ship tonnages mustnt'be considered as real one in SE IV. they are just a way to say " a light cruiser is two times bigger than a fregate".

That's the way I think when designing shipsets.

Okay, think that way if you wish ... but let me tell you this: we've never BUILT a starshipc apable of transiting a wormhole, now, have we? 8)

As for makjing spacecraft out of light materials: we only d that now, because of the incredible cost of lifting HEAVY materials up out of Earth's gravity well and into orbit.

Build it in space, and you can make it as heavy as you like (engine thrust :: mass issues notwithstanding).