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, 2010-04-05
Megatransport v1.0 (TL14) Copyright 2010 by Onno Meyer The Megatransport is based on an obsolescent Megafreighter design. She was modified to carry one million passengers, colonists or refugees over interstellar distances. The primary scenario are emergency evacuations, since few paying passengers would accept such cramped conditions. The ship has a 200m spherical hull with reinforced ventral strakes for landing. The strakes were used to mount ten big decon airlocks at ground level. After decontamination, huge lifts lead up to the bunkrooms in the former cargo holds. The new decks are 2.4m high, which allows the bunks to be stacked four high. Plastic bulkheads and curtains provide minimal privacy. Sanitary facilities are distributed so that nobody sleeps more than 60m from a toilet or shower, and 150 galleys serve the passengers in shifts. The transport has a hospital with 40,000 slightly less crowded bunks, 1,000 automeds for intensive care cases, and 2,000 freeze capsules for patients who can only be revived in a proper planetside facility. Four hangar decks hold 100 contragrav ambulances each, for medevac directly to the shipboard hospital. The permanent crew has slightly better quarters, which is justified by the fact that they should keep the ship running, not stand in line for a sandwich or a shower. The bridge has ten officers per shift, plus extra command and communications teams to coordinate an evacuation and to fly five fast courier shuttles. 200 technicians run the maintenance robots. Finally, there are several hundred medics and administrators trained in emergency operations. Subassemblies: Body +15. Powertrain: Ten 200,000-ton vectored super reactionless thrusters; ten 2,000,000-ton hyperdrives; four 1,000,000-ton contragrav generators; two 2,500,000-kW fusion reactors; four 75,000,000-kW total conversion power plants; ten 720,000,000,000-kWs rechargeable power cells. Occ: 20 bridge RCS, 1,000,000 bunks, 750 cabins, 250 luxury cabins. Cargo: 2,000,000 cf. Armor F RL B T U Body: 4/4,800* 4/4,800* 4/4,800* 4/4,800* 4/4,800* * plus force screen generators as described below. Equipment: Body: Extreme-range radio; two extreme-range laser communicators; two extreme-range neutrino communicators; four extreme-range gravity ripple communicators; long-range FTL communicator; four 100,000-mile AESAs; four 1,080,000-lightsecond (300-lighthour) FTL radars; four 100,000-mile PESAs; 100,000-mile multiscanner; 100,000-mile gravscanner; two 1,000-AU Hyperspace Emergence detectors; two 1,000-AU FTL scan detectors; two high-resolution planetary survey arrays; four x2,000 astronomical LLTVs; two sets of precision navigation instruments; two IFF; six inertial navigation systems; five C12 hardened macroframes; 10,000 terminals; 20 neural interface fields; 1,000 full fire suppression systems; science lab; five complete workshops; four ST 100,000 combination beams; 80 operating rooms; 2,000 cryonic capsules; 1,000 automeds; ten 100-man airlocks with decon showers; five space docks for 100,000 cf of subcraft each; FSR 250 impermeable force screen generator (reduced DR 7,500); FSR 300 simple shaped screen generator (reduced DR 9,000); twelve 96,000-man total life support systems; ten 4,800-man total life support systems; 5,556 grav units; 250 grav compensators. External: Radiation shielding; thermal superconducting armor. Statistics Size: 660'x660'x660' Payload: 125,000 tons Lwt.: 1,000,000 tons Volume: 150,000,000 cf Maint.: 1,140 man-hours Price: $56,406,430,500 HT: 6. HPs: 10,140,000 Body aSpeed: 10,720 aAccel: 40 aDecel: 0.5 aMR: 0.125 aSR: 7 sAccel: 2 G sMR: 2 FTL Speed: 20 x basic FTL factor. Design Notes Body is 150,000,000 cf, with underbelly skids. Structure is extra-heavy, cheap. Armor is cheap metal. Sealed. Computerized controls with quadruple maneuver controls. 17,905,481 cf of empty space. Empty weight is 1,750,000,000 lbs. The vehicle uses the design rules from Vehicles [second edition, third printing, January 2007 errata], VXi (including the structural volume rule) and VXii (including the armor volume rule) with the text format from Vehicles Lite. The GM should probably set a FTL factor well over 0.2, perhaps in the five figures for intergalactic flights. Next Week: The basic freighter. _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
