B-106: Loyalists’ Rock
Spanial is probably best described as a small freighter. Military ships of similar size are usually described as ‘frigates’.
fyi, Spanial is a Size 9 ship with regard to size classification.
This is based on the following:
- A person in a spacesuit masses about 100kg and is Size 0
- The next size, SM+1 (think of it as ‘Sized Mass’) is about 3 times bigger – about 300kg
- Three times bigger than that is about 1000kg – Size SM+2
- and so on…
- At Size 9, that’s about 3,000 tonne gross vehicle mass
In practice, the smallest single-seat fighters are SM+4 (10 tonne), the big bulk freighters that operate on standard routes are SM+12 (100,000 tonne) and the largest navy ships about SM+14 (1,000,000 tonne)
“Not terribly. Just big enough for what we need.”