By the way, under HG/CT rules, cargo ships dont get a lot more efficient once they get beyond a certain size.

Here is a 50kton jump-2 cargo ship designed under HG - its got the same profile as the Jacques Coeur class posted upthread ... just 5x bigger and 5x more expensive.

Ship: Bigbelly

Class: Cargo Eater

Type: Freighter

Architect: Iniigi Darashiika

Tech Level: 11

USP

AK-P52125Z-080000-60007-0 MCr 20,622.689 50 KTons

Bat Bear 3 3 1 Crew: 245

Bat 4 4 2 TL: 11

Cargo: 31,301 Crew Sections: 50 of 5 Fuel: 11,000 EP: 1,000 Agility: 1 Shipboard Security Detail: 50

Fuel Treatment: Fuel Scoops and On Board Fuel Purification

Backups: 1 x Model/5 Computer

Substitutions: Z = 50

Architects Fee: MCr 206.227 Cost in Quantity: MCr 16,498.152

Detailed Description

(High Guard Design)

HULL

50,000.000 tons standard, 700,000.000 cubic meters, Sphere Configuration

CREW

26 Officers, 219 Ratings

On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 10:00 AM, Tim <tim@little-possums.net> wrote:

On Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 07:37:58AM -0700, Phil Pugliese (via tml list) wrote:
> I believe that 1000dT J2 merchantman could handle the trade from
> Oz'. About 280-300 trips/year.

By Oz you mean Australia? According to Ports Australia, our sea trade
for 2012-2013 was 1.1 billion tonnes. So you're wrong by a factor of
roughly a thousand.

> And that's *If* such a trade could really be sustained in the TU,
> which I doubt as, unlike the Earth the TU is not bound by an upper
> TL limit of 8 or 9. Which I believe changes things quite a bit.

Given the canonical prices, wages, and TL disparities - no, if
anything the TU should see more trade than MT ever envisaged.

- Tim

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