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. The files at omeyer.gmxhome.de are down until I fix the automatic PDF generation, which should be one of these days - see sourceforge.net/projects/gurpsml Onno Meyer, 2010-03-08
Terraforming Support Ship v1.0 (TL10) Copyright 2010 by Onno Meyer The mission of the Terraforming Support Ship is to prepare worlds for habitation. Her vast lifebanks hold plant and animal species to build a new ecosphere from scratch, and her genetic labs allow the tailoring of species to transform an existing ecology. The ship is a disk, with a diameter of 1,000m and a height of 195m at the central dome. She has cabins for 250,000 scientists and techs, with the facilities of a flying city. The park dome, 400m wide, serves as a leisure area for the crew and a showcase of genetic marvels. The lower decks, where visitors are not welcome, contain engine rooms and row after row of cryosleep capsules for a million colonists, growth tanks for sizes from insects to whales, and containment tubes to study the native ecology. The largest tanks rival the size of a shuttlecraft, so the mothership can enter an atmosphere and hover at low altitude to release or collect megafauna. To protect all these assets, the Terraforming Support Ship has point defense weapons, and it would be easy to swap some of the Terraforming Support Shuttles for Close Air Support, so the starship should do well in an Alien Invasion game -- against a lightly armed transport, even 20th century weapons stand a fighting chance. The listed payload includes 125,000 tons of crew and passengers, two million tons of supplies, and 375,000 tons of subcraft, including more than 2,000 multirole Terraforming Support Shuttles. Subassemblies: Body +17. Powertrain: Three 7,500,000-ton vectored super reactionless thrusters; 15,000,000-ton hyperdrive; six 4,000,000,000-kW fusion reactors; 5,400,000,000,000-kWs rechargeable power cell. Occ: 7,500 bridge RCS, 250,000 cabins. Cargo: 200,000,000 cf. Armor F RL B T U Body: 4/800 4/800 4/800 4/800 4/800 Weaponry 18 360-MJ Heavy PD Xasers [Bod:F] (powered directly by reactors) +2. 18 360-MJ Heavy PD Xasers [Bod:R] (powered directly by reactors) +2. 18 360-MJ Heavy PD Xasers [Bod:L] (powered directly by reactors) +2. 18 360-MJ Heavy PD Xasers [Bod:B] (powered directly by reactors) +2. Equipment: Body: Full stabilization and cyberslave mounts for PD Xasers; eight extreme-range radios; forty extreme-range laser communicators; twelve 10,000-mile AESAs; twelve 10,000-mile PESAs; 5,000-mile multiscanner; six high-resolution planetary survey arrays; four x500 astronomical LLTVs; four sets of precision navigation instruments; two IFF; six inertial navigation systems; ten C9 hardened, genius macroframes; 250,000 terminals; 500 full fire suppression systems; 100 science labs; 1,000 P4 full genetics labs; forced growth tanks (1,000,000 hexes total); lifebank (10,000,000 units); containment tubes (1,000,000 hexes total); 200 complete workshops; 100 operating rooms; 1,000,000 cryonic capsules; 10,000 automeds; bars, mess halls, and conference rooms (100,000 persons total); ten 250-man airlocks; 5,000-bunk brig; ten space docks for 3,750,000 cf of subcraft each; ten 100,000-man total life support systems; 88,889 grav units. External: Radiation shielding. Statistics Size: 3,280'x3,280'x640' Payload: 2,500,000 tons Lwt.: 15,000,000 tons Volume: 3,000,000,000 cf Maint.: 6,747 man-hours Price: $1,975,946,189,000 HT: 5. HPs: 74,880,000 Body aSpeed: 740 aAccel: 10 aDecel: 0.5 aMR: 0.125 aSR: 7 sAccel: 1.5 Gs sMR: 1.5 FTL Speed: 0.2 parsecs per day. Design Notes Body is 3,000,000,000 cf, with very good streamlining. Structure is extra-heavy, standard. Armor is standard metal. Sealed. Computerized controls with quadruple maneuver controls. 704,037,845 cf of empty space. Empty weight is 25,000,000,000 lbs. Weapon Weight Volume Cost Power WPS VPS CPS TL 360-MJ Heavy PD Xaser 200,000 4,000 $13,000,000 19,200,000 - - - 10 Weapon Ammo Malf. Type Damage SS Acc 1/2D Max RoF 360-MJ Heavy PD Xaser - ver. imp. 6d*50(2) 30 32 360,000 1,080,000 20* The vehicle uses the design rules from Vehicles [second edition, third printing, January 2007 errata], BIO, VXi, and VXii (including the armor volume rule), with the text format from Vehicles Lite. I didn't use the optional rule from VXi for structural volume, since it would not do the large open spaces justice. Next Week: The shuttle. _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
