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. My site is down for rebuilding, but sooner or later the old stuff should reappear at omeyer.gmxhome.de Onno Meyer, 2007-06-25
I thought a bit about the hypersled question and decided to write a Traveller jump sled. The smallest FTL craft in the Traveller universe are 100 displacement tons (50,000 cubic feet), so it is no small sled. I considered a skeletal open frame with cargo racks, but then I opted for a flat salvage ship instead. Ant-Class 100-ton Jump Sled v1.0 (GT TL11) Copyright 2007 by Onno Meyer When free traders break down far from civilization, starships like the Ant-class Jump Sled tow them back to the shipyards. The Sled consists of a spaceframe with a grapple for a salvaged ship, an oversized jump drive and tank and minimal support systems. The jump range is one parsec with a 200-dton payload, two parsecs with a 100-dton payload or five parsecs with an empty grapple. The acceleration will be low, but the contragrav unit allows a liftoff with a Far or Free Trader from earthlike worlds. A typical crew consists of a pilot an an engineer. That leaves enough life support capacity - but no proper quarters - for five crew from the salvaged craft. Subassemblies: VGSL Hull +8. Powertrain: Engineering, Combination Gravitics System, 6 Jump Drive, 2 Maneuver. Fuel: 60 Jump Fuel Tank. Occ: 1 Stateroom, 1 Life Support. Armor F RL B T U Hull: 4/100 4/100 4/100 4/100 4/100 Equipment Hull: Fuel Processor; compact Basic Bridge; 3 Grapple. Statistics Size: 100'x50'x10' Payload: 375 stons Lwt.: 580 stons Volume: 100 dtons Maint.: 29 mh/day Price: MCr36 HT: 12. HPs: 15,000 [Hull] sAccel: 0.35 Gs/1 G empty Jump: 5 aSpeed: 1,225 mph Next Week: The spaceplane that was planned for this week. _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
