I'm SOOO confused

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I know, I know, I know.... "here he goes again!"

I was once again trying to design a ship under the new MT design
rules.  This time, (I thought) something simple.  A 20T (OT)
fighter.

Under High Guard, this ship had a power plant with a rating of 12
and needed 12% of the ship's volume for fuel, or 2.4T.  This
roughly equates to 32.4 KL under the MT rules.  The fighter I am
designing is to have a 6G manueverability rating.  When I tried to
calculate the size power plant to accomplish this deed I came up
with the following figures:



          Item                Units           Volume            Wt
       Manuever 6              3.4             45.9             119
       Power Plant            80                7.2             160


I arrived at the power plant figure by determining that the
manuever drive would need 238 power units as input power for their
survival.  I doubled that figure in the interest of maintaining
excess power for agility.  SO far so good, but now comes the fuel
calculations:

80 power plant units use 0.009 KL of fuel per hour.  I calculate a
30 day supply as 30 X 24 X 0.009 X 80 as 518.4 KL.  Not much, but
the whole vessel only has a volume of 270KL!

What am I doing wrong?   What kinds of guidelines do other folks
use in this instance?

Boy I miss High Guard!


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