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, 2010-03-29
Large Colonizer Shuttle v1.0 (TL10) Copyright 2010 by Onno Meyer The Colonizer Shuttle uses one obvious violation of physics as we know it, and some less obvious ones, to allow surface-to-orbit flights on the scale necessary to settle new, exciting planets. The Shuttle has an arrowhead spaceframe, 75m long and 15m wide, with twin thruster units in the roots of the stubby delta wings. She has two decks, with the cockpit and 700 seats on the upper deck, and an airlock, the cargo hold, and 300 seats on the lower deck. Narrow aisles make it difficult to move around after boarding, but then the flight shouldn't take too long ... Subassemblies: Body +8, twenty retractable wheels +3. Powertrain: Four 750,000-lb. super reactionless thrusters; 750-kW RTG; two 750,000-kW fusion reactors; six 360,000-kWs rechargeable E power cells. Occ: 4 RCS, 1,000 CS. Cargo: 10,000 cf. Armor F RL B T U Body: 4/240 4/240 4/240 4/240 4/240 Wheels: 4/60 4/60 4/60 4/60 4/60 Equipment: Body: Two extreme-range radios; two long-range laser communicators; four speakers; 500-mile multimode radar; two 100-mile thermographs; 50-mile radscanner; two flight data recorders; two sets of navigation instruments; two transponders; two inertial navigation systems; two global positioning systems; four C5 hardened minicomputers; four terminals; two full fire suppression systems; 18-man airlock; ten cramped toilets; two 1,250*12 man-hour limited life systems. External: Radiation shielding; puncture-resistant tires. Statistics Size: 250'x50'x20' Payload: 200 tons Lwt.: 1,000 tons Volume: 100,000 cf Maint.: 43 man-hours Price: $80,491,400 HT: 7. HPs: 22,500 Body, 300 each Wheel gSpeed: 480 gAccel: 25 gDecel: 10 gMR: 0.25 gSR: 5 Ground Pressure Extremely High. No Off-Road Performance. aSpeed: 2,740 aAccel: 30 aDecel: 1 aMR: 0.25 aSR: 6 Stall Speed 325. sAccel: 1.5 Gs sMR: 1.5 Design Notes Body is 100,000 cf, with very good streamlining and lifting body. Wheels are 5,000 cf, retract into Body. Structure is medium, standard. Armor is standard metal. Sealed. Computerized controls with duplicate maneuver controls. 4,329 cf of empty space. Empty weight is 1,600,000 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. Next Week: A slightly larger evacuation transport ... _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
