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, 2010-04-12
Megafreighter v1.0 (TL14) Copyright 2010 by Onno Meyer The Megafreighter is an interstellar or perhaps intergalactic craft for containerized and breakbulk cargo and a few passengers. She has a spherical 200m hull with reinforced underbelly strakes for landing. The freighter can carry 1,240,000 tons of cargo and a thousand crew and passengers. The bridge and quarters are near the dorsal pole, and the engines and power plants are mounted in ring around the equator, which leaves the ventral pole for cargo and passenger locks and the center of the hull for large cargo holds. Her crew consists of thirty bridge officers, operating in shifts, 120 engineers supervising the maintenance robots, and about a hundred cargo handlers, pursers and stewards. There are cabins for 150 first class passengers and 600 second class passengers, unless the permanent crew manage to secure more of the large cabins for themselves. She has four docks for 2,000-ton lifeboats, with FTL capability, and one dock with a few contragrav container carriers, cranes, and smaller utility flyers to supplement the local cargo handling facilities. 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, 750 cabins, 250 luxury cabins. Cargo: 124,000,000 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 generator as described below. Equipment: Body: Extreme-range radio; four extreme-range laser communicators; two extreme-range neutrino communicators; two 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; four x2,000 astronomical LLTVs; two sets of precision navigation instruments; two IFF; six inertial navigation systems; five C12 hardened macroframes; 1,000 terminals; 20 neural interface fields; 1,000 full fire suppression systems; five complete workshops; four ST 100,000 combination beams; eight operating rooms; 40 cryonic capsules; 20 automeds; four 240-man airlocks; four 10-man airlocks; four cargo ramps; five space docks for 100,000 cf of subcraft each; FSR 300 simple shaped screen generator (reduced DR 9,000); ten 2,000-man total life support systems; 5,556 grav units; 250 grav compensators. External: Radiation shielding; thermal superconducting armor. Statistics Size: 660'x660'x660' Payload: 1,250,000 tons Lwt.: 2,000,000 tons Volume: 150,000,000 cf Maint.: 1,123 man-hours Price: $54,772,765,000 HT: 6. HPs: 10,140,000 Body aSpeed: 12,185 aAccel: 20 aDecel: 0.5 aMR: 0.125 aSR: 7 sAccel: 1 G sMR: 1 FTL Speed: 10 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. 808,156 cf of empty space. Empty weight is 1,500,000,000 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: A cruiser with the same size. _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
