Is it just for the "coolness factor" of the setting that the ship AI is
housed in a robot instead of being a part of the ship itself?
I know it was cool in TV shows like Andromeda (seasons 1 and 2 only
please) to have the ship personified. So it is neat in games too.
But, absent that is there a real-world-ish reason to do it?
On 1/11/11 10:25 AM, Onno Meyer wrote:
This is a weekly posting with GURPS vehicles (and the like) to the
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redistribution of my work, but I would like to know if you put it on
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I fix the automatic PDF generation, which should be one of these
days - see sourceforge.net/projects/gurpsml
Onno Meyer, 2011-01-11
Starship Command Robot Mk.VIII v1.0 (TL15)
Copyright 2011 by Onno Meyer
The Command Robot assists the crew of an interstellar or intergalactic
starship during long bridge watches. The humanoid robot is the shell for
an advanced AI, which can solve most routine problems and recognize when
a situation calls for input from the organic crew.
The Starship Command Robot looks like a large human, and it might even
pass a cursory sensor scan. There are several different models with male
or female morphology, but all have a massive torso to hold the computer
system. Most sensors and communicators are mounted in the head, and the
arms and legs contain motors and thrusters.
The emergency power cells last for one minute at full thrust, or 270
minutes of standby power.
Subassemblies: Body -1, two Legs -2, limited-rotation Turret -2, two
Arms -3.
Powertrain: 0.6-kW leg drivetrain; two 200-lb. vectored super
reactionless thrusters; 25-kW total conversion reactor; two 810-kWs
rechargeable B power cells.
Armor F RL B T U
All: 4/40 4/40 4/40 4/40 4/40
Equipment:
Body: Inertial compass; C11 compact, hardened, robotic, sentient
microframe (DX 13, IQ 16). Turret: Two medium-range gravity-ripple
communicators; speaker; two 5-mile AESAs; two 5-mile PESAs; two
surveillance sound detectors, level 18; ST 10 jaw. Left Arm: 10-mile
multiscanner; ST 40 arm motor. Right Arm: IFF; ST 40 arm motor.
External: Living flesh, attractive; biomorphic shielding; surface
sensors.
Statistics
Size: 1'x2'x6' Payload: - Lwt.: 200 lbs.
Volume: 3.2 cf Maint.: 32 hours Price: $397,760
HT: 12. HPs: 27 Body, 12 each Leg, 12 Turret, 12 each Arm
gSpeed: 20 gAccel: 10 gDecel: 20 gMR: 2.75 gSR: 1
Very Low Ground Pressure. Full Off-Road Speed.
aSpeed: 245 aAccel: 20 aDecel: 34 aMR: 8.5 aSR: 3
sAccel: 2 Gs sMR: 2
Design Notes
Body is 1.6 cf. Legs are 0.45 cf each. Turret is 0.4 cf. Arms are 0.15
cf each. Structure is heavy, standard, robotic. Armor is standard
composite. Sealed. 0.017 cf empty space in the Turret and 0.22 cf empty
space in each Leg. Empty weight is 200 lbs.
The vehicle uses the design rules from Vehicles [second edition, third
printing, December '09 errata], Robots, and VXii (including the armor
volume rule) with the text format from Vehicles Lite.
Next Week: A robotic medic.
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