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, 2010-04-26
Personal Flight Pod v1.0 (TL16) Copyright 2010 by Onno Meyer There is a saying that a sufficiently advanced technology resembles magic, and this is the magic carpet ... a blob of nanometal enclosing one passenger and the engine/avionics system. The Flight Pod can go anywhere on a planet, using orbital or suborbital trajectories for longer distances, and even make interplanetary trips if the passenger remembers to bring enough sandwiches. Subassemblies: Body +2. Powertrain: 2,000-lb. vectored mega reactionless thruster; 105-kW cosmic power plant. Occ: 1 CS. Cargo: 6 cf Armor F RL B T U Body: 4/120 4/120 4/120 4/120 4/120 Equipment: Body: Long-range gravity-ripple communicator; 5-mile AESA; two 5-mile PESAs; 1-mile multiscanner; surveillance sound detector, level 5; two transponders; inertial navigation system; two global positioning systems; two C10 hardened, small robot brains; 1-man full life system. External: Radiation shielding. Statistics Size: 6'x3'x3' Payload: 320 lbs. Lwt.: 720 lbs. Volume: 36 cf Maint.: - Price: $148,325 HT: 16. HPs: 112 Body aSpeed: 1,000 aAccel: 55 aDecel: 30 aMR: 7.5 aSR: 2 sAccel: 2.78 G sMR: 2.75 Design Notes Body is 36 cf, with underbelly skids, lifting body and very good streamlining. Structure is medium, expensive, robotic, living metal. Armor is expensive metal. Self-sealing. 0.4875 cf of empty space. Empty weight is 400 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 reasonably near-future jet fighter. _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
