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Onno Meyer, 2011-02-28
Lifeboat Mk.VIII, Vehicles Version v1.0 (TL15)
Copyright 2011 by Onno Meyer
The Lifeboat is carried by interstellar craft. Depending on the exact
scenario, the boat can wait in deep space, search for a habitable world,
or start the flight to the nearest base.
The boat has a boxy hull with a small cockpit in front. The cabin has
seats for 48 passengers in addition to the pilot and copilot. If rescue
does not seem imminent, 50 cryosleep can be used to wait for years. The
Mk.VIII carries five tons of survival gear, including nanofactories and
a complete technical database. Given time, the Lifeboat has everything
to build a new starship, or a thriving little colony.
Subassemblies: Body +7.
Powertrain: Two 2,500,000-lb. vectored mega reactionless thrusters; two
1,250-ton hyperdrives; four ruggedized 5,000,000-lb. contragrav
generators; 10,000-kW fusion reactor; two ruggedized 160,000-kW total
conversion power plants; two 506,250,000-kWs rechargeable power cells.
Occ: 2 bridge RCS, 48 NCS. Cargo: 500 cf.
Armor F RL B T U
Body: 4/1,600* 4/1,600* 4/1,600* 4/1,600* 4/1,600*
* plus force screen generators as described below.
Equipment:
Body: Two long-range neutrino communicators; two extreme-range gravity
ripple communicators; two 1,000-mile AESAs; two 18,000-lightsecond FTL
radars; two 1,000-mile PESAs; 1,000-mile multiscanner; two 500-AU
Hyperspace Emergence detectors; two 500-AU FTL scan detectors;
low-resolution planetary survey array; two x400 astronomical LLTVs;
two sets of precision navigation instruments; four IFF; six inertial
navigation systems; four C10 hardened, robotic minicomputers; two
terminals; two neural induction fields; two full fire suppression
systems; engineering workshop; 50 cryonic capsules; four automeds;
10-man airlock; 10-mile nuclear damper; FSR 30 complex shaped screen
generator (DR 6,000); FSR 40 heavy-duty, energy screen generator (DR
16,000); four 50-man total life support systems; grav unit; 50 gravity
webs; grav compensator. External: Radiation shielding; retro-reflective
coating; thermal superconducting armor.
Statistics
Size: 80'x20'x10' Payload: 10 tons Lwt.: 250 tons
Volume: 12,500 cf Maint.: 38 man-hours Price: $63,392,500
HT: 15. HPs: 24,000 Body
aSpeed: 17,320 aAccel: 200 aDecel: 18 aMR: 4.5 aSR: 6
sAccel: 10 Gs sMR: 10 FTL Speed: 10 x basic FTL factor.
Design Notes
Body is 12,500 cf, with total compartmentalization and underbelly
skids. Structure is extra-heavy, standard, robotic. Armor is standard
metal. Self-sealing. Computerized controls with duplicate maneuver
controls. 354.8 cf of empty space. Empty weight is 480,000 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. The GM should probably
set a FTL factor well over 0.2, perhaps in the five figures for
intergalactic flights.
Lifeboat Mk.VIII, Spaceships Version v1.0 (TL12^)
Design 2011 by Kenneth Peters, color text 2011 by Onno Meyer
The Lifeboat is carried by interstellar craft. Depending on the exact
scenario, the boat can wait in deep space, search for a habitable world,
or start the flight to the nearest base.
The boat has a boxy hull with a small cockpit in front. The cabin has
seats for 60 passengers in addition to the pilot and copilot. If rescue
does not seem imminent, 60 cryosleep can be used to wait for years. The
Mk.VIII carries five tons of survival gear, including nanofactories and
a complete technical database. Given time, the Lifeboat has everything
to build a new starship, or a thriving little colony.
It has a unstreamlined 300-ton (SM +7) hull about 90 feet long.
Systems Table
Front Hull System
[1] Diamondoid Armor (dDR 20).
[2-4] Passenger Seating (20 seats each).
[5-6] Habitats (eight hibernation chambers each).
[core] Control Room (C9 computer, comm/sensor 8, and two control
stations).
Central Hull System
[1-3] Habitats (eight hibernation chambers each).
[4] Habitat (four hibernation chambers, 5 tons cargo).
[5] Habitat (two-bed sickbay with automeds).
[6] Fusion Reactor (two Power Points).
[core] Total Conversion Power Plant (five Power Points).
Rear Hull System
[1!] Heavy Force Screen (dDR 70, or dDR 140 with two Power
Points).
[2-3] Habitats (eight hibernation chambers each).
[4-5!] Super Stardrive Engines (FTL-1, or FTL-2 with two Power
Points).
[6!] Super Reactionless Engine (100G acceleration).
It has the artificial gravity and gravitic compensator features.
TL Spacecraft dST/HP Hnd/SR HT Move Lwt. Load SM Occ dDR
Range Cost
PILOTING/TL12 (HIGH-PERFORMANCE SPACECRAFT)
12^ Lifeboat Mk.VIII 50 +1/5 12 100G/c 300 17.2 +7 2+60SV* 20/0/0** 4x
$77.35M
* Plus 60 in suspended animation.
** Add dDR 70 (dDR 140 if using two Power Points) if force screen is powered up.
Atmospheric top speed is 2,500 mph and Hnd/SR +1/5.
Next Week: A starfighter.
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