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Shuttle
After over a month of prodding at this, I have come up with a way to get a B2 shuttle design that is within a fraction of a ton - if you squint your eyes a bit and the light is pretty bad.
First, what we know of the shuttle from the B2 writeup: 95 tons, streamlined, MCr33, Maneuver Drive (and thus Power Plant) 3, fuel 2.85 tons, bridge, hardpoint, excess tonnage 71 tons.
Hull: USP 0, 95 tons, MCr9.5
Conf: USP 2, no tons, MCr0.95
MD : USP 3, 2.5 tons, MCr6 ("1/2 C" drive)
PP : USP 3, 2.85 tons, MCr8.55 (HG2 drive)
Fuel: 2.85 tons
Brid: 19 tons, MCr0.475
Weap: MCr0.1 (one hardpoint)
Excs: 67.8 tons, MCr7.425
Totl: 95 tons, MCr33
The squinting and bad light come in with the "1/2 C" drive (half the size, cost, and capability of a standard C drive), mixing a B2 and HG drive, and adding the fuel tonnage to the excess tonnage to come up with 70.65 tons which is very close to the 71 tons in the description.
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