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Onno Meyer, 2010-02-15
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.
100-ton Shuttle v1.0 (TL10)
Copyright 2010 by Onno Meyer
This shuttlecraft contains no obvious violations of physics as we know
it, but it was written for a setting where stardrives allow interstellar
travel and adventure, and a few technologies are improbably efficient.
The 100-ton Shuttle is carried by big freighters operating in frontier
areas, where many worlds lack surface-based shuttles or orbital transfer
stations. It has a cockpit for two crew, a cabin with eight seats, and a
cargo hold for about 50 tons of payload. The endurance is a day, or two
days using all life support reserves.
The fusion rockets use 200 gallons of reaction mass per minute.
Subassemblies: Body +6, ten retractable wheels +2.
Powertrain: Two 300,000-lb. vectored fusion rockets; 150-kW RTG; two
360,000-kWs rechargeable power cells.
Fuel: 4,000 gallons water.
Occ: 2 RCS, 8 RS. Cargo: 5,000 cf.
Armor F RL B T U
All: 4/125 4/125 4/125 4/125 4/125
Equipment:
Body: Two extreme-range radios; two very-long-range laser
communicators; four x4 LLTVs; 500-mile radar; two 100-mile thermographs;
10-mile radscanner; two sets of navigation instruments; two
transponders; two inertial navigation systems; two global positioning
systems; four C5 hardened minicomputers; two terminals; compact fire
suppression system; cargo ramp; 5-man airlock; passage tube; cramped
toilet; small galley; two 10 man-day limited life systems; ten
crashwebs; ten g-seats. External: Radiation shielding;
puncture-resistant tires.
Statistics
Size: 90'x24'x12' Payload: 68 tons Lwt.: 100 tons
Volume: 10,000 cf Maint.: 10 man-hours Price: $3,961,600
HT: 10. HPs: 4,500 Body, 120 each Wheel
aSpeed: 2,740 aAccel: 60 aDecel: 10 aMR: 2.5 aSR: 5
sAccel: 3 to 3.6 Gs sMR: 3
delta-V 86,018 mph
Design Notes
Body is 10,000 cf, with very good streamlining and lifting body.
Wheels are 500 cf, retract into Body. Structure is medium, expensive.
Armor is expensive composite. Sealed. Computerized controls with
duplicate maneuver controls. 0.46 cf of empty space. Empty weight is
64,000 lbs.
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.
100-ton Shuttle, Spaceships Version v1.0 (TL10^)
Copyright 2010 by Onno Meyer
This shuttlecraft contains no obvious violations of physics as we know
it, but it was written for a setting where stardrives allow interstellar
travel and adventure, and a few technologies are improbably efficient.
The 100-ton Shuttle is carried by big freighters operating in frontier
areas, where many worlds lack surface-based shuttles or orbital transfer
stations. It has a cockpit for two crew, a cabin with six seats, and a
cargo hold for about 45 tons of payload. The endurance is a day, using
all life support reserves.
The shuttle has a 100-ton (SM+6) streamlined hull.
Systems Table
Front Hull System
[1] Nanocomposite Armor (dDR 7).
[2] Control Room (C7 computer, comm/sensor 5, and 2 control
stations).
[3] Passenger Seating (6 seats).
[4-6] Cargo (5 tons capacity each).
Central Hull System
[1] Nanocomposite Armor (dDR 7).
[2-6, core] Cargo (5 tons capacity each).
Rear Hull System
[1] Nanocomposite Armor (dDR 7).
[2-5] Fusion Torches (0.5 G acceleration each).
[6, core] Fuel Tank (5 tons of hydrogen providing 15 mps each).
The crew consists of a pilot and a copilot.
TL Spacecraft dST/HP Hnd/SR HT Move Lwt. Load SM Occ dDR Range
Cost
PILOTING/TL10 (HIGH-PERFORMANCE SPACECRAFT)
10^ 100-ton Shuttle 30 0/4 12 2 G/30 mps 100 45.8 +6 2+6SV 7 0
$9.79M
Top air speed is 3,500 mph, Move is 20/1,750, Handling/SR is 0/4.
Next Week: A STL generation ship.
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