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Onno Meyer, 2010-01-18
The 'double issue' of this week presents the same ship twice, once as
a Vehicles design and once with the Spaceships rules. The twin versions
are not interchangeable in the same game, but they have a similar look
and feel in both systems.
3,000-ton Unstreamlined Hyperfreighter v1.0 (TL10)
Copyright 2010 by Onno Meyer
This starship uses one obvious violation of physics as we know it (the
hyperdrive) and a few less obvious ones to allow interstellar travel and
adventures. The freighter is unstreamlined, so she uses orbital transfer
stations or shuttles at both ends of the flight.
The ship consists of the main hull and two capsules spinning at 0.4 G.
Each capsule has cabins for fifty passengers or crew, common spaces and
life support systems for the entire crew. The central hull contains the
bridge, engine rooms, reaction mass tanks and 1,200 tons of cargo. Twin
x-ray lasers provide some defense against meteorites or space pirates.
The fusion rockets use 15,000 gallons of reaction mass per hour. A
full load of provisions is $240,000.
Subassemblies: Body +9, two Pods +8.
Powertrain: Six 125,000-lb. vectored fusion rockets; 7,500-ton
hyperdrive; two 1,000-kW RTGs; two 50,000-kW fusion reactors; six
450,000,000-kWs rechargeable power cells; 72,000,000-kWs rechargeable
power cell.
Fuel: 200,000 gallons water.
Occ: 20 bridge RCS, 30 double-occupancy cabins, 30 single-occupancy
cabins, 10 luxury cabins.
Cargo: 120,000 cf.
Armor F RL B T U
All: 4/100 4/100 4/100 4/100 4/100
Weaponry
Two 180-MJ X-Ray Lasers [Bod:F] (75 shots each) +2.
Equipment:
Body: Full stabilization and cyberslave mounts for X-Ray Lasers;
extreme-range radio; two extreme-range laser communicators ; two
16,000-mile, air-search radars; two 3,200-mile thermographs; 3,200-mile
radscanner; three x400 astronomical LLTVs; two sets of precision
navigation instruments; four transponders; six inertial navigation
systems; two HUDWACs with pupil scanners; advanced radar/laser detector;
three C7 hardened mainframes; 48 terminals; two full fire suppression
systems; complete workshop; 30-man airlock; four 100 man-day limited
life systems. Pods: 120-foot spin arm; extreme-range radio; 24
terminals; full fire suppression system; operating room; three automeds;
500-sf mess; 3-man airlock; 100-man full life systems; 20,000 man-days
of provisions. External: Radiation shielding.
Statistics
Size: 135'x270'x270' Payload: 2,100 tons Lwt.: 3,000 tons
Volume: 300,000 cf Maint.: 38 man-hours Price: $62,742,500
HT: 10. HPs: 150,000 Body, 60,000 each Pod
sAccel: 0.125 to 0.174 Gs sMR: 0.125 FTL Speed: 0.5 parsec/day
delta-V 153,795 mph
Design Notes
Body is 200,000 cf. Pods are 50,000 cf each. Structure is extra-heavy,
standard. Armor is standard composite. Sealed. Computerized controls
with duplicate maneuver controls. 28,519 cf of empty space in the Body
and 22,537 cf of empty space in each Pod. Empty weight is 1,800,000 lbs.
Weapon Weight Volume Cost Power WPS VPS CPS TL
180-MJ X-Ray Laser 5,000 100 $350,000 480,000 - - - 10
Weapon Ammo Malf. Type Damage SS Acc 1/2D Max RoF
180-MJ X-Ray Laser - ver. imp. 6d*35(2) 30 29 130,000 390,000 1
The vehicle uses the design rules from Vehicles [second edition, third
printing, January 2007 errata], VXi and VXii (including the armor volume
rule) with the text format from Vehicles Lite.
3,000-ton Unstreamlined Hyperfreighter, Spaceships Version v1.0 (TL10^)
Copyright 2010 by Onno Meyer
This starship uses one obvious violation of physics as we know it (the
hyperdrive) and a few less obvious ones to allow interstellar travel and
adventures. The freighter is unstreamlined, so she uses orbital transfer
stations or shuttles at both ends of the flight.
The ship consists of the main hull and two capsules spinning at 0.15
G. Each capsule has cabins for fifty passengers or crew, common spaces
and life support systems. The central hull contains the bridge, engine
rooms, reaction mass tanks and 1,040 tons of cargo. Two 30MJ UV lasers
provide some defense against meteorites or space pirates.
The freighter has a 3,000-ton (SM+9) unstreamlined hull with spin
gravity.
Systems Table
Front Hull System
[1] Nanocomposite Armor (dDR 30).
[2-3] Habitat (15 cabins, 1 bar, 2 automed sickbay, 1 minifac
each).
[4] Habitat (20 cabins).
[5] Cargo (150 tons capacity).
[6!] Tertiary Battery (two fixed mounts with 30MJ UV Lasers, 140
tons cargo).
[core] Control Room (C8 computer, comm/sensor 8, and 6 control
stations).
Central Hull System
[1] Nanocomposite Armor (dDR 30).
[2-6] Cargo (150 tons capacity each).
Rear Hull System
[1] Nanocomposite Armor (dDR 30).
[2] Fusion Torch (0.5 G acceleration).
[3-5] Fuel Tank (150 tons of hydrogen providing 15 mps each).
[6!] Stardrive Engine (FTL-1).
[core] Fusion Reactor (provides two power points).
The freighter needs six bridge crew and four engine room technicians
per shift, and a total of ten to twenty service crew on longer flights.
TL Spacecraft dST/HP Hnd/SR HT Move Lwt. Load SM Occ
dDR Range Cost
PILOTING/TL11 (HIGH-PERFORMANCE SPACECRAFT)
10^ 3,000-ton Hyperfreighter 100 -2/5 12 0.5 G/45 mps 3,000 1,050 +9
100ASV 30 1x $185.7M
Next Week: The 3,000-ton pirate ship.
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