Roger replied to me: > This one will do a turnover trip in 1.7x the time with 1.3x the cargo - > of course a turnover trip is only 160,000 miles or so, 55,000 miles for > the streamlined craft at full burn, which probably isn't this vessel's > major role. But this does mean that in a short-range emergency situation > the streamlined craft will actually be preferred.
There can be no question that the unstreamlined freighter is better as orbit to orbit transport, but much of the cargo will go from the surface of one world to the surface of another. The 10,000-ton USL freighter carries three shuttles (only two in the Vehicles version), which would take a total of about 80 flights to load and unload her, not counting reaction mass (from ice asteroids rather than the surface?). On established routes, large local shuttles and orbital ports will allow the unstreamlined starships to do a quick turnaround. On frontier worlds, where starship visits are uncommon, streamlined ships will win. And, most important, the unstreamlined variant is unsuitable for the conversion into a pirate ship, since it relies on too many friendly ports. To summarize the various craft: TL Spacecraft dST/HP Hnd/SR HT Move Lwt. Load SM Occ dDR Range Cost PILOTING/TL11 (HIGH-PERFORMANCE SPACECRAFT) 10^ 100-ton SL Hyperfreighter 30 0/4 12 1.5 G/45 mps 100 26 +6 10ASV 7 1x $10.09M 10^ 300-ton SL Hyperfreighter 50 -1/5 12 1.5 G/45 mps 300 76 +7 20ASV 10 1x $30.4M 10^ 300-ton USL Hyperfreighter 50 -2/5 12 0.5 G/45 mps 300 91 +7 20ASV 15 1x $18.7M 10^ 1,000-ton SL Hyperfreighter 70 -1/5 12 1.5 G/45 mps 1,000 246 +8 40ASV 15 1x $102M 10^ 1,000-ton USL Hyperfreighter 70 -2/5 12 0.5 G/45 mps 1,000 296 +8 40ASV 20 1x $63.6M 10^ 3,000-ton SL Hyperfreighter 100 -1/5 12 1.5 G/45 mps 3,000 900 +9 100ASV 20 1x $301.9M 10^ 3,000-ton USL Hyperfreighter 100 -2/5 12 0.5 G/45 mps 3,000 1,050 +9 100ASV 30 1x $185.7M 10^ 10,000-ton SL Hyperfreighter 150 -2/5 13 1.5 G/45 mps 10,000 2,940 +10 200ASV 30 1x $1,005M 10^ 10,000-ton USL Hyperfreighter 150 -3/5 13 0.5 G/45 mps 10,000 3,740 +10 200ASV 50 1x $607M 10^ 100-ton Shuttle 30 0/4 12 2 G/30 mps 100 45.8 +6 2+6SV 7 0 $9.79M _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
