This is a weekly posting with GURPS vehicles (and the like) to the GURPSnet mailing list. I grant the permission for all non-commercial redistribution of my work, but I would like to know if you put it on a website or the like. With a slight delay, old vehicles appear at http://omeyer.gmxhome.de/GURPSnet_files/summary.html Onno Meyer, 2006-04-10
KR-1 Truck Train v1.0 (GURPS Traveller TL9) Copyright 2006 by Onno Meyer Vehicles like the Truck Train can be found on worlds without a proper rail net. Under computer control, Truck Trains can form a convoy with a human driver only in the first truck of each road train. Alternatively, several trucks with their own drivers can trade shifts on long trips. Each unit is a 12x8 flatbed truck with a cab in front and a Series 4A container (or several smaller containers) in the back. It is powered by a 400-kW isotope battery which lasts for more than a decade. The Truck Train is fitted for moderately inhospitable worlds, with air filtration but no proper airlock. Subassemblies: Body +5, twelve off-road Wheels +2. Powertrain: 400-kW wheeled drivetrain; 400-kW RTG; five 270,000-kWs rechargeable E cells. Occ: RCS, CS, bunk. Cargo: 80 cf enclosed, 2,000 cf open. Armor F RL B T U All: 3/8 3/8 3/8 3/8 3/8 Equipment Body: Short-range cellular phone; 1.5-mile radar; GPS; C3 small computer with a terminal; C3 routine vehicle operation; tire inflation system; two-man NBC kit; two crashwebs. External: Hitch. Statistics Size: 50'x10'x15' Payload: 98,000 lbs. Lwt.: 120,000 lbs. Volume: 3,000 cf Maint.: 47 hours Price: $184,355 HT: 11. HPs: 3,600 Body, 250 each Wheel gSpeed: 40 gAccel: 2 gDecel: 10 gMR: 0.5 gSR: 5 Ground Pressure Very High. Off-Road Speed 1/8. Design Notes Body is 2,400 cf. Wheels are 600 cf (increased volume). Structure is heavy and very cheap. Armor is standard metal. Sealed. Electronic controls. There are 90.76 cf of empty space. Empty weight is 22,000 lbs. The TL9 vehicle uses the design rules from Vehicles [2nd edition, 3rd printing, Dec 2004 errata], VXi and VXii (including the armor volume rule) with the text format from Vehicles Lite. The Traveller rules affect the background but not the technology of this design. Next Week: Probably yet another Traveller liner. _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
