[TML] Low tech ship design

[Tommy Grav]

On Jan 3, 2008, at 3:07 AM, Jerry W Barrington wrote:

> On 1/3/08 2:52 AM, "Timothy Little" <tim at little-possums.net> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Jan 02, 2008 at 10:13:18PM -0500, Thad Coons wrote:
>>> The other is a jump drive test vehicle, which would start out at
>>> effectively Jump-0. set (obviously) at a later time than the early
>>> craft.  Any suggestions on how to handle this?
>>
>> Since it's experimental, the jump drive is likely to be substantially
>> bulkier, use more fuel, and be much more expensive than a later
>> developed drive of the same capability.  A quick hack that would
>> accomplish all three would be to call it a jump-6 drive for design
>> purposes, but with jump-0 performance.
>
> I like the idea, but treating it as Jump 6 seems excessive!  I  
> would have
> thought in the 1 to 3 range.

I would suggest that the size depends on how close they are to a working
stable drive.

Conceptual stage = Jump 6 requirements
First field deployment = Jump 5 requirements
Second field deployment = Jump 4 requirements
.
.

and so on until they get the working jump-1 drive. That gives you the
ability to model different stages of development.

Cheers
   Tommy