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Onno Meyer, 2011-03-21
Space Force Cutter Mk.VIII, Vehicles Version v1.0 (TL15)
Copyright 2011 by Onno Meyer
The Space Force Cutter is carried by the warships of an interstellar
or perhaps even intergalactic navy. She adds a multirole capability to
her mothership, from detached courier flights to science and planetary
survey missions.
The Cutter has a roughly disk-shaped hull with 30m diameter and 15m
height. The mounts for the two main weapons, a gamma-ray laser and an
antiparticle beam, extend forward for a total length of 35m. The crew
quarters and bridge are buried deep within the hull, so there are few
visible windows.
The core crew are a pilot, a copilot, an offensive systems operator,
and a defensive systems operator, with leaves six bridge stations for
mission specialists. The ten cabins are usually configured for single
occupancy, but they can hold twenty without problems, and 200 in an
emergency.
The main payload bay can hold roughly 160 tons of cargo or subcraft,
and there is room for another 40 tons of supplies, spares, and robots.
It takes 39 seconds to recharge one antiparticle shot.
Subassemblies: Body +9.
Powertrain: Four 31,250-ton vectored mega reactionless thrusters; four
31,250-ton hyperdrives; four 20,000-ton contragrav generators;
200,000-kW fusion reactor; two 8,000,000-kW total conversion power
plants; five 16,200,000,000-kWs rechargeable power cells.
Occ: 10 bridge RCS, 10 luxury cabins. Cargo: 4,000 cf.
Armor F RL B T U
Body: 4/9,000* 4/9,000* 4/9,000* 4/9,000* 4/9,000*
* plus force screen generators as described below.
Weaponry
64-MJ Graser [Bod:R] (2,400 shots) +16.
64-MJ Graser [Bod:L] (2,400 shots) +16.
64-MJ Graser [Bod:B] (2,400 shots) +16.
64-MJ Graser [Bod:T] (2,400 shots) +16.
64-MJ Graser [Bod:U] (2,400 shots) +16.
6.4-GJ Graser [Bod:F] (480 shots) +16.
36-GJ Antiparticle Gun [Bod:F] (272 shots) +16.
Equipment:
Body: Cyberslave mounts and full stabilization for all weapons;
extreme-range radio; two extreme-range laser communicators; four
extreme-range neutrino communicators; two extreme-range gravity ripple
communicators; short-range FTL communicator; four 100,000-mile AESAs;
two 864,000-lightsecond (10-lightday) FTL radars; four 200,000-mile
PESAs; two 100,000-mile multiscanners; 10,000-mile gravscanner; two
5,000-AU Hyperspace Emergence detectors; two 5,000-AU FTL scan
detectors; two high-resolution planetary survey arrays; six x500
astronomical instruments; four sets of precision navigation instruments;
four IFF; six inertial navigation systems; area jammer, rating 20; two
deceptive jammers, rating 20; four C13 hardened, robotic macroframes;
seven C13 hardened, dedicated macroframes with C13 targeting; 30
terminals; 10 neural induction fields; six full fire suppression
systems; planetology lab; complete workshop; ST 10,000 combination beam;
operating room; ten cryonic capsules; four automeds; 20-man airlock;
5-man airlock; space dock for 8,000 cf of subcraft; 25-mile nuclear
damper; FSR 40 complex shaped screen generator (DR 8,000); FSR 50
heavy-duty, energy screen generator (DR 20,000); FSR 60 stealth screen
generator (DR 12,000); four 50-man total life support systems; 10 grav
units; 10 gravity webs; 5 grav compensators. External: Radical emission
cloaking; radical stealth; intruder chameleon; radiation shielding;
thermal superconducting armor.
Statistics
Size: 115'x100'x50' Payload: 200 tons Lwt.: 5,000 tons
Volume: 250,000 cf Maint.: 276 man-hours Price: $3,315,128,750
HT: 8. HPs: 150,000 Body
aSpeed: 50,000 aAccel: 500 aDecel: 14 aMR: 3.5 aSR: 7
sAccel: 25 Gs sMR: 25 FTL Speed: 25 x basic FTL factor.
Design Notes
Body is 250,000 cf, with total compartmentalization and underbelly
skids. Structure is extra-heavy, advanced, robotic. Armor is advanced
laminate. Self-sealing. Computerized controls with quadruple maneuver
controls. 837.25 cf of empty space. Empty weight is 9,600,000 lbs.
Weapon Weight Volume Cost Power WPS VPS CPS TL
64-MJ Graser 10,000 200 $2,700,000 3,840,000 - - - 15
6.4-GJ Graser 200,000 4,000 $53,000,000 76,800,000 - - - 15
36-GJ Antiparticle Gun 200,000 4,000 $150,000,000 45,000,000 - - - 15
Weapon Ammo Malf. Type Damage SS Acc 1/2D Max
RoF
64-MJ Graser - v(c) imp. 6d*27(5) 30 30 167,000 501,000
20*
6.4-GJ Graser - v(c) imp. 6d*199(5) 30 36 1,670,000 5,010,000
4*
36-GJ Antiparticle Gun - ver. spcl. 6d*2,044(2) 30 34 792,000 2,376,000
1/2
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.
Space Force Cutter Mk.VIII, Spaceships Version v1.0 (TL12^)
Design 2011 by Kenneth Peters, color text 2011 by Onno Meyer
The Space Force Cutter is carried by the warships of an interstellar
or perhaps even intergalactic navy. She adds a multirole capability to
her mothership, from detached courier flights to science and planetary
survey missions.
The Cutter has a roughly disk-shaped hull with 30m diameter and 15m
height. The mounts for the two main weapons, a gamma-ray laser and an
antiparticle beam, extend forward for a total length of 35m. The crew
quarters and bridge are buried deep within the hull, so there are few
visible windows.
The core crew are a pilot, a copilot, an offensive systems operator,
and a defensive systems operator, with leaves two bridge stations for
mission specialists. The ten cabins are usually configured for single
occupancy, but they can hold twenty without problems.
The main payload bay can hold roughly 100 tons of cargo or subcraft,
and there is room for another 107 tons of supplies, spares, and robots.
It has an unstreamlined 3,000-ton (SM +9) hull about 120 feet long.
Systems Table
Front Hull System
[1-2] Exotic Laminate Armor (Hardened; total dDR 140).
[3] Multipurpose Array (comm/sensor 12).
[4] Hangar Bay (100 ton capacity).
[5!] Major Battery (fixed 1 GJ improved antiparticle beam).
[6!] Secondary Battery (five fixed 10 MJ rapid fire grasers, one
fixed 100 MJ graser, and 60 tons cargo).
[core] Control Room (C10 computer, comm/sensor 10, and six control
stations).
Central Hull System
[1-2] Exotic Laminate Armor (Hardened; total dDR 140).
[3!] Heavy Force Screen (dDR 150, or dDR 300 with two Power
Points).
[4-5] Habitats (5 luxury cabins with total life support each).
[6] Habitat (briefing room, ten hibernation chambers, lab,
minifac nanofac, four-bed sickbay with automeds, and 47.5
tons cargo).
[core] Super Fusion Reactor (de-rated; three Power Points).
Rear Hull System
[1-2] Exotic Laminate Armor (Hardened; total dDR 140).
[3!] Super Stardrive Engine (FTL-1, or FTL-2 with two Power
Points).
[4] Total Conversion Power Plant (five Power Points).
[5!] Super Stardrive Engine (FTL-1, or FTL-2 with two Power
Points).
[6!] Super Reactionless Drive (100G acceleration).
It has the artificial gravity, stealth, dynamic chameleon, and
gravitic compensator features. Force screen is adjustable with force
wings (Spaceships 7, p. 23).
TL Spacecraft dST/HP Hnd/SR HT Move Lwt. Load SM Occ
dDR Range Cost
PILOTING/TL12 (HIGH-PERFORMANCE SPACECRAFT)
12^ Space Force Cutter Mk.VIII 100 +1/5 12 100G/c 3,000 210.5 +9 20ASV*
140** 4x $1,807.2M
* Plus 10 in suspended animation.
** Add dDR 150 (dDR 300 if using two Power Points) if force screen
is powered up.
Atmospheric top speed is 35,000 mph and Hnd/SR +5/6 with the force
wings.
Next Week: An amphibian shuttle.
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