[TML] Firefly, wait no it is a Subsidized Merchant ship.

[Tom B]

>  According to the info in BL, a loaded Gazelle Close Essort averages 1,000
>  Kg/M^3  while the loaded Subsidized Merchant comes out to 697 Kg/m^3.
>
>  A fully loaded scout comes in at 494 Kg/m^3.
>
>  A Midu Agashaam Destroyer with a volume of 4,200 m^3and a loaded mass of
>  28,839.61 tonnes comes in at 686.66 Kg/m^3, less than the Subsidized
>  merchant.

Okay, they'll float.

But you'll need some hellacious landing gear to put that mass down on
anything other than bedrock or a technologically created equivalent.
If the scout needs 93 square feet to land on bedrock, 280 on sandy
soil, and possibly twice that on clay, then you can add 50% to those
numbers for the subsidized merchant (loaded) and the Midu Agashaam and
about 100% for the Gazelle.

To put it another way:

Gazelle would need about 186 square feet of landing pad on bedrock,
560 square feet on sandy soil, and as much as 1100 square feet on
clay. That's some pretty humongous landing gear/pads.