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Onno Meyer, 2011-05-02
Exploration Cruiser Mk.VIII, Vehicles Version v1.0 (TL15)
Copyright 2011 by Onno Meyer
The Exploration Cruiser is used for interstellar or even intergalactic
expeditions. Her capabilities range from basic astrographical surveys to
the first contact with other civilizations.
The hull is a 100m sphere, studded with sensor arrays, hatches, and
the thruster projection heads. Her bridge, medical facilities, and crew
quarters are protected near the center of the ship. The cargo holds and
hangars are on the lower decks, while sensors and laboratories fill the
upper sections.
She is armed with a dozen gamma-ray lasers for point defense, and she
has a large disintegrator, two tractor beams, and a paralysis beam. The
Exploration Cruiser is no real warship, but less advanced civilizations
may fail to see any difference ...
The Cruiser has four hangars with 250-ton Lifeboats and a primary dock
for perhaps 29,000 tons of subcraft. A typical mix includes two or three
Cutters, an Aquashuttle, a dozen Surface Crawlers, and a variety of Base
Modules and Landers.
The permanent crew are ten bridge officers and several hundred robots.
They are augmented by up to 240 mission specialists, from scientists to
small craft crew.
Subassemblies: Body +13.
Powertrain: Six 1,000,000-ton vectored mega reactionless thrusters; six
1,000,000-ton hyperdrives; five 400,000-ton contragrav generators;
10,000,000-kW fusion reactor; three 300,000,000-kW total conversion
power plants; nine 243,000,000,000-kWs rechargeable power cells.
Occ: 50 bridge RCS, 200 cabins, 50 luxury cabins. Cargo: 3,000,000 cf.
Armor F RL B T U
Body: 4/24,000* 4/24,000* 4/24,000* 4/24,000* 4/24,000*
* plus force screen generators as described below.
Weaponry
54-GJ Disintegrator [Bod:R] (72 shots) +16.
8-GJ Military Paralysis Gun [Bod:L] (28 shots) +16.
Three 6.4-GJ Grasers [Bod:R] (72 shots each) +16.
Three 6.4-GJ Grasers [Bod:L] (72 shots each) +16.
Three 6.4-GJ Grasers [Bod:T] (72 shots each) +16.
Three 6.4-GJ Grasers [Bod:U] (72 shots each) +16.
Equipment:
Body: Cyberslave mounts and full stabilization for all weapons; four
extreme-range radios; four extreme-range laser communicators; six
extreme-range neutrino communicators; five extreme-range gravity ripple
communicators; long-range FTL communicator; four 200,000-mile AESAs; two
155,520,000-lightsecond (60-lightmonth) FTL radars; two 1,000,000-mile
PESAs; 2,000,000-mile multiscanner; 1,000,000-mile gravscanner;
1,000,000-mile ultrascanner; two 5,000-AU Hyperspace Emergence
detectors; two 5,000-AU FTL scan detectors; four high-resolution
planetary survey arrays; five x4,000 astronomical instruments; five sets
of precision navigation instruments; five IFF; ten inertial navigation
systems; two area jammers, rating 20; two deceptive jammers, rating 20;
20 C13 hardened, robotic macroframes; 14 C13 hardened, dedicated
macroframes with C13 targeting; 1,000 terminals; 50 neural interface
fields; 100 full fire suppression systems; 24 labs; five complete
workshops; two ST 320,000 combination beams; five operating rooms; 100
cryonic capsules; 40 automeds; three 50-man conference rooms; 150-man
mess; five 20-man airlocks; five 4-man airlocks; 5-cabin brig; space
dock for 1,450,000 cf of subcraft; four space docks for 12,500 cf of
subcraft each; two 20-mile nuclear dampers; FSR 150 kinetic screen
generator (DR 45,000); FSR 200 simple shaped screen generator (DR
40,000); FSR 250 heavy-duty, energy screen generator (DR 100,000); FSR
300 stealth screen generator (DR 60,000); ten 500-man total life support
systems; 695 grav units; 50 gravity webs; 300 grav compensators.
External: Radical emission cloaking; radical stealth; intruder
chameleon; radiation shielding; thermal superconducting armor.
Statistics
Size: 330'x330'x330' Payload: 60,000 tons Lwt.: 300,000 tons
Volume: 18,750,000 cf Maint.: 2,519 man-hours Price: $275,311,184,500
HT: 6. HPs: 2,520,000 Body
aSpeed: 30,945 aAccel: 400 aDecel: 6 aMR: 1.5 aSR: 7
sAccel: 20 Gs sMR: 20 FTL Speed: 20 x basic FTL factor.
Design Notes
Body is 18,750,000 cf, with total compartmentalization and underbelly
skids. Structure is extra-heavy, advanced, robotic. Armor is advanced
laminate. Sealed. Computerized controls with quadruple maneuver
controls. 1,204,178 cf of empty space. Empty weight is 480,000,000 lbs.
Weapon Weight Volume Cost Power WPS VPS CPS
TL
6.4-GJ Graser 200,000 4,000 $53,000,000 76,800,000 - - -
15
8-GJ Mil. Paralysis Gun 1,200,000 24,000 $120,000,000 480,000,000 - - -
15
54-GJ Disintegrator 1,200,000 24,000 $1,700,000,000 540,000,000 - - -
15
Weapon Ammo Malf. Type Damage SS Acc 1/2D Max
RoF
6.4-GJ Graser - v(c) imp. 6d*199(5) 30 36 1,670,000 5,010,000
4*
8-GJ Mil. Paralysis Gun - ver. spcl. HT-1,110 30 32 - 706,000
20*
54-GJ Disintegrator - crit. spcl. 6d*227(100) 30 38 - 4,115,000
4*
The vehicle uses the design rules from Vehicles [second edition, third
printing, December '09 errata], VXi (including the structural volume
rule) 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.
Exploration Cruiser Mk.VIII, Spaceships Version v1.0 (TL12^)
Design 2011 by Kenneth Peters, color text 2011 by Onno Meyer
The Exploration Cruiser is used for interstellar or even intergalactic
expeditions. Her capabilities range from basic astrographical surveys to
the first contact with other civilizations.
The hull is a 140m sphere, studded with sensor arrays, hatches, and
the thruster projection heads. Her bridge, medical facilities, and crew
quarters are protected near the center of the ship. The cargo holds and
hangars are on the lower decks, while sensors and laboratories fill the
upper sections.
She is armed with ten gamma-ray lasers for point defense, and she has
a large disintegrator, three tractor beams, and a hypnagogic beam. The
Exploration Cruiser is no real warship, but less advanced civilizations
may fail to see any difference ...
The Cruiser has a hangar for 30,000 tons of subcraft. A typical mix
includes four Lifeboats, two or three Cutters, an Aquashuttle, a dozen
Surface Crawlers, and a variety of Base Modules and Landers.
The permanent crew are ten bridge officers and several hundred robots.
They are augmented by up to 240 mission specialists, from scientists to
small craft crew.
It has a spherical 300,000-ton (SM +13) hull about 450 feet in
diameter.
Systems Table
Front Hull System
[1] Exotic Laminate Armor (Hardened; dDR 300).
[2!] Major Battery (fixed 10 GJ rapid-fire, improved hypnagogic
beam).*
[3!] Major Battery (fixed 100 GJ disintegrator).*
[4-6] Larger System (one at SM+14): Multipurpose Array
(comm/sensor 17).**
Central Hull System
[1] Exotic Laminate Armor (Hardened; dDR 300).
[2!] Secondary Battery (ten fixed 10 GJ grasers).*
[3!] Contragravity Lifter.
[4-6] Larger System (one at SM+14): Hangar Bay (30,000 ton
capacity).**
[core] Smaller Systems (three at SM+12): Control Room (C12
computer, comm/sensor 13, and 20 control stations).***
Habitat (200 cabins with total life support, 50 luxury
cabins with total life support).*** Habitat (5 cells, 3
briefing rooms, ten establishments, 100 hibernation
chambers, 24 labs, 5 minifac nanofacs, 40-bed sickbay with
automeds, and 2,270 tons cargo).***
Rear Hull System
[1] Exotic Laminate Armor (Hardened; dDR 300).
[2!] Medium Battery (three turrets with 30 GJ tractor beams).*
[3!] Heavy Force Screen (dDR 700, or dDR 1,400 with two Power
Points).*
[4-5!] Super Stardrive Engines (FTL-1, or FTL-2 with two Power
Points).*
[6!] Super Reactionless Engine (100G acceleration).*
[core] Total Conversion Power Plant (five Power Points).*
* 3 workspaces per system.
** 10 workspaces per system.
*** 1 workspace per system.
The vessel benefits from high automation. It has the artificial
gravity, gravitic compensator, stealth, and dynamic chameleon features.
Force field is adjustable.
TL Spacecraft dST/HP Hnd/SR HT Move Lwt. Load SM Occ
dDR Range Cost
PILOTING/TL12 (HIGH-PERFORMANCE SPACECRAFT)
12^ Exploration Cruiser Mk.VIII 500 -2/4 13 100G/c 300,000 32,332 +13
520ASV* 300** 4x $148,838M
* Plus 100 in suspended animation.
** Add dDR 700 (dDR 1,400 if using two Power Points) if force screen is
powered up.
Atmospheric top speed is 2,500 mph and Hnd/SR -2/4.
Next Week: A much smaller craft.
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