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, 2010-09-13
200mm Hyperspace Message Torpedo v1.0 (TL11) Copyright 2010 by Onno Meyer Hyperspace Message Torpedoes appear in some science fiction settings where starships can travel faster than light, but radio communications are still limited by lightspeed. The Message Torpedo consists of a small but powerful engine pack, a power cell for a single hyperspace entry, a star tracker, and limited avionics. The payload is data in a hardened recorder. Subassemblies: Body +0. Powertrain: 500-lb. vectored super reactionless thruster; 2.5-ton hyperdrive; 25-kW nuclear power unit; 900,000-kWs power cell. Armor F RL B T U Body: 4/25 4/25 4/25 4/25 4/25 Equipment: Body: Very-long-range radio; very sensitive radio direction finder; x200 astronomical LLTV; flight data recorder; IFF; inertial navigation system; C5 hardened, robotic, small computer (DX 10, IQ 8). Statistics Size: 12'x8”x8” Payload: - Lwt.: 200 lbs. Volume: 4 cf Maint.: 83 hours Price: $57,954 HT: 12. HPs: 12 Body aSpeed: 1,530 aAccel: 30 aDecel: 24 aMR: 6 aSR: 3 sAccel: 2.5 Gs sMR: 2.5 FTL Speed: 5 parsec/day. Design Notes Body is 4 cf, with superior streamlining and underbelly skids. Structure is light, expensive, robotic. Armor is expensive metal. Sealed. 0.0069 cf of empty space. Empty weight is 200 lbs. The vehicle uses the design rules from Vehicles [second edition, third printing, December '09 errata], VXi and VXii (including the armor volume rule) with the text format from Vehicles Lite. Next Week: The patrol boat for the cutter. _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
