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, 2007-10-21
Hybrid Scoutship v1.0 (TL8/12) Copyright 2007 by Onno Meyer Many science fiction backgrounds mix near future technology with a few breakthroughs to allow interstellar travel. The craft described here has a contragrav unit, a STL engine, and a FTL engine, all violating physics as we know it, and an optimistic power storage cell. The streamlined spaceframe of the Hybrid Scoutship is divided into the cockpit with four workstations, a cabin with two bunks, a cargo hold and airlock and the engine room with a fission reactor. The typical crew are a pilot, a navigator, an engineer and a mission specialist, but the life support could handle up to six scouts. The Scoutship is capable of both orbital surveys and surface landings on moons or earthlike worlds. A full load of provisions is $4,800. Subassemblies: Body +5. Powertrain: TL12 20,000-lb. vectored reactionless thruster; TL12 100-ton hyperdrive; TL12 60,000-lb. contragrav generator; 1,250-kW fission reactor; 36,000,000-kWs rechargeable power cell. Occ: 4 RCS, 2 bunks. Cargo: 80 cf Armor F RL B T U Body: 4/100 4/100 4/100 4/100 4/100 Equipment: Body: Two long range radios; long range laser communicator; 250-mile multimode radar; 100-mile thermograph; 200x astronomical LLTV; advanced radiation sensor; chemical sensor array; medium-resolution planetary survey array; two flight data recorders; precision navigation instruments; two transponders; two inertial navigation systems; two military GPS; advanced radar/laser detector; two C3 hardened minicomputers; four terminals; compact fire suppression system; 2-man airlock; 6-man full life system; 800 man-days of provisions. External: Radiation shielding. Statistics Size: 36'x12'x8' Payload: 2 tons Lwt.: 20 tons Volume: 2,000 cf Maint.: 10 man-hours Price: $4,389,200 HT: 9. HPs: 750 Body aSpeed: 865 aAccel: 10 aDecel: 8 aMR: 2 aSR: 4 sAccel: 0.5 sMR: 0.5 Hyperspeed: 1 parsec per day Design Notes Body is 2,000 cf, with underbelly skids, very good streamlining and a lifting body. Structure is light, advanced. Armor is advanced composite. Sealed. Computerized controls with quadruple maneuver controls. There are 23.8 cf of empty space. Empty weight is 36,000 lbs. The 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. All components except for those listed as TL12 are TL8. Next Week: A little FTL-capable fighter. _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
