Edgardo Mackay asked Glynn Stewart:

Dear Mr Stewart, DSC AVALON is described as having 800 metres lenght, 200 metres wide (prow), 400 metres wide (base), with 100 metres thick at the prow and two hundred metres at the base, but... no information whatsoever is given concerning her tonnage (unless I overlooked such information). Can you provide such data? Many thanks in advance. Best regards.

Glynn Stewart I'm relatively sure the tonnage of DSC-001 is in the book somewhere, though I mostly focus on cubage for the ships throughout the series (it's more relevant for how the Alcubierre-Stetson drive is established to work)

According to my notes, DSC-001 Avalon comes in at about 12,000,000 tons. (Her neutronium armor, obviously, represents a relatively thin but very heavy portion of her mass).

DSC-078 is significantly larger, at roughly 80.5 million cubic meters, but is also notably less dense due to the lack of neutronium armor. She massed 24,000,000 tons (density of approx. 0.3. I seem to have lost this figure for DSC-001 but I think it was around .6 or so. Explicitly, almost all CF-verse starships float.)

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