Oops, made my spaceship too big
After seeing the sizes of several fictional spaceships, I decided I was overestimating the size of the ship in my space opera. My wife suggested looking at yachts and using that to estimate.
In The Screaming Void and my sequel in progress, the Dolos has a crew of five and a shuttle. I had been saying it was 150 meters long, but after some reconsideration, that felt way too big.
I found a yacht that has about the right number of cabins, and a submarine to represent the shuttle. It's only 55 meters long!
I decided to change the Dolos to 70 meters, to give them a little more space for the engines and shuttle. That feels reasonable for a private ship with a crew of five. I hope the crew doesn't mind having their ship cut in half!
I picture the Dolos to be roughly the size of Serenity in Firefly. Serenity was a little longer, but it was oblong. My ship is shaped like an arrowhead, so it's a bit wider. Close enough, given that nobody will bother measuring this but me.
