Belial666 wrote:Again with the life support...
An average adult needs 2 pounds of food, 4 pounds of oxygen and 4 pounds of water per day. Two tons of non-recycleable life support per person is more than enough for a year. So a hundred thousand tons of non-recyclable life support is enough for fifty thousand people for a year.
Now, for the living space. A Sovereign-class cruise ship has extravagant living space for 3.500 people and crew in under 80 kilotons, including engine space. So 50.000 people and crew, living in extravagant shipboard space, need some 1,15 megatons.
So 1,3 megatons is all you need for exceptional living conditions and supplies for 50.000 people for 1 year. Since the largest Honorverse ships can be as much as 10 megatons, with up to 60% devoted to the primary role, you could easily have 200.000 marines on a single ship.
You are anticipating a bit. Ships aren't quite that big yet.
The largest ships built so far are the Havenite SDPs, which approach 9 Million; the largest RMN ship is the
"Invictus-class pod superdreadnought, Mass: 8,768,500 tons" per HoS.
The Atlas ships that spawned this not only have military style missile defenses, they also use the higher (faster) hyper bands, avoiding a lot of the pirates. And, their EW signature sure looks like a BC, so ordinary pond scum will likely avoid going anywhere near them.
The only transports I remember details on were the Havenite Longstops, which carried 50,000 as normal load. No reason to think those were atypical for the Honorverse Navies.
Rob
Rob
