Seeking Advice on Robot size

[wintertraveller]

64 slots for battle dress seems too large for fitting 5 marines worth of gear into a 1-ton ship's armory. Although I can see the rational for increase of size for a human in battle dress. Perhaps battle dress in an armory with no human inside make its bulk a size smaller.

I wonder if size 6 Aslan need bigger or more staterooms in their ships than we see published.

 

[J. L. Brown]

64 slots for battle dress seems too large for fitting 5 marines worth of gear into a 1-ton ship's armory. Although I can see the rational for increase of size for a human in battle dress. Perhaps battle dress in an armory with no human inside make its bulk a size smaller.

I wonder if size 6 Aslan need bigger or more staterooms in their ships than we see published.

According to the Robot Handbook Update (p 13), a Size 6 Chassis fills one Vehicle Space. That should be a quarter of a dTon, or four suits per dTon. If the Battle Dress is that large, then there is no room for grenades, sidearms, ammunition, power-cells, or non-BD armor -- of course, referees are better off just ignoring the official nonsense about scaling.

Since a Robot slot is canonically 'about three liters', and (also canonically) the 'essential workings and mechanisms' of a robot chassis take up exactly the same volume as the Chassis 'Base Slots', we can figure up how many liters a Size-6 Robot Chassis actually occupies. Fun!
A size 6 Robot chassis has 32 base slots, doubled to 'occupies 64 slots worth of volume' for essential 'stuff', times four (let us give the robot a little room) is ... 256 liters. Cool. Since there are (slightly more than) 14000 liters in a dTon, how many Size-6 robots fit? 54?!?! (*Sigh*)

Yep, Mongoose has fudged the numbers up so bad they are off by more than an order of magnitude. Even 'Well, every robot will need twice that room, for clearances and stuff -- they have to have room to stretch and move about' nonsense still leaves us fitting six times MORE robots than the page 13 table allows.

The new Vehicle Handbook apparently is going to double down on the existing 'system'. (*Another Sigh*)

 

[Sigtrygg]

As of the publishing of Singularity Act 2, a suit of Human-sized Battle Dress is exactly the same as a size-6 Robot. That comes out to 64 'slots'; 32 usable 'internal' slots, and 32 unusable 'workings, systems, and overhead' slots. The human occupant of the suit apparently occupies 16 of the usable 'internal' slots.

Which is the same size as a large adult Aslan now, thanks to Aslan now being retconned to eight feet tall.

 

[Sigtrygg]

64 slots for battle dress seems too large for fitting 5 marines worth of gear into a 1-ton ship's armory. Although I can see the rational for increase of size for a human in battle dress. Perhaps battle dress in an armory with no human inside make its bulk a size smaller.

I wonder if size 6 Aslan need bigger or more staterooms in their ships than we see published.

Aslan are not size 6, regardless of what this book claims. The average Aslan is only a few inches taller than an average human according to even Mongoose.
"The Aslan that has evolved from those beginnings is, like a human, an upright biped averaging two metres in height and 100 kilograms in mass."

 

[Terry Mixon]

Which is the same size as a large adult Aslan now, thanks to Aslan now being retconned to eight feet tall.

The most recent art has them at ten to twelve feet tall, at least. Size 7 or 8 for sure.