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, 2011-01-24
Starship Scientific Robot Mk.VIII v1.0 (TL15) Copyright 2011 by Onno Meyer The Science Robot assists the crew of an interstellar or intergalactic starship with shipboard research and field work. The neural net computer is capable of adaptive learning, but original science still requires the work of sentient crew -- the robot is merely a good lab assistant. The Mk.VIII is shaped like an upright egg, with four flexible arms at 90° intervals around the body. Two arms have micromanipulators, and all four have hyperspectral EM imagers. Additional sensors are mounted in a ring around the upper pole. The force screen can form a manipulator field, capable of holding or lifting 0.4 tons at 1 G. Many structural and motive components are interchangeable with other models of the Mk.VIII series. The reserve power cell lasts for 144 minutes at full thrust. Subassemblies: Body +0, four Arms -2. Powertrain: Four 250-lb. vectored super reactionless thrusters; two 10,000-lb. contragrav generators; 500-kW total conversion reactor; 810,000-kWs rechargeable power cell. Armor F RL B T U All: 4/240* 4/240* 4/240* 4/240* 4/240* * plus DR 400 force screen. Equipment: Body: Two long-range gravity-ripple communicators; two short-range neutrino communicators; speaker; four 5-mile AESAs; 15-mile multiscanner; two surveillance sound detectors, level 15; 1-mile ultrascanner; transponder; two inertial navigation systems; C11 hardened, neural-net, robotic microframe (DX 13, IQ 15); FSR 2 force screen, shaped, manipulator (reduced DR 400, ST 40). Arms: 12-mile PESAs; ST 180 arm motors, flexible (in two arms); ST 180 arm motors, flexible, micromanipulator (in two arms). External: Radiation shielding. Statistics Size: 2'x2'x5' Payload: - Lwt.: 1,000 lbs. Volume: 12 cf Maint.: 23 hours Price: $739,472.5 HT: 12. HPs: 180 Body, 60 each Arm aSpeed: 385 aAccel: 20 aDecel: 32 aMR: 8 aSR: 3 sAccel: 1 Gs sMR: 1 Design Notes Body is 9.6 cf. Arms are 0.6 cf each. Structure is extra-heavy, standard, robotic. Armor is standard metal. Self-sealing. 2.82 cf of empty space. Empty weight is 1,000 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 security robot. _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
