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Originally posted by Phoenix-D:
"1000 tons has always meant 1000 tons to me. ;-)"

Figure this out then. How much *damage* is 50 kilotons?

Phoenix-D

Well, while people do have me on the ship scale concerns (like a 25K ton fighter), I can answer that one -- it's the amount of damage you would need to inflict to destroy 50 kilotons' worth of an average component. ;-)

Scale-wise, the game probably would have been better off choosing tons rather than kilotons. A 10-ton mine is definitely not out of the question when you're trying to destroy a 1200-ton dreadnought, and a 25-ton fighter makes perfect sense (assuming it was built to be solid, it'd be about the size of the average city bus).

Unfortunately, at that scale, it'd be pointless to carry population, since you'd be carrying thousands rather than millions.