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Onno Meyer, 2011-07-04
Bioship Destroyer Escort v1.0 (TL14)
Copyright 2011 by Onno Meyer
At roughly 100,000 tons, this Bioship is large enough for independent
interstellar deployments. The Destroyer Escort is used in an economy of
force role, where a fleet destroyer two or three times her size is not
required.
The bioship is roughly 200 yards long. Almost half of her length are
antenna clusters in front and thruster vanes in the rear, while most of
her mass is concentrated in a lumpy egg 300' by 250' by 100'.
The faster than light communicator has a range of one parsec, and her
spinal fusion gun can penetrate 8 feet of modern laminates or 300 feet
of steel armor. The payload section contains thirty cabins, a spacedock
for 3,000 tons of subcraft, cargo holds, and a small scientific and
medical section.
Subassemblies: Body +12.
Powertrain: 435,000-ton vectored mega reactionless thruster; 495,000-ton
vectored mega reactionless thruster; 526,000-ton vectored mega
reactionless thruster; 544,000-ton vectored mega reactionless
thruster; 2,000,000-ton hyperdrive; 1,000,000-ton contragrav
generator; 70,400,000-kW total conversion power plant; 74,400,000-kW
total conversion power plant; 76,000,000-kW total conversion power
plant; 79,200,000-kW total conversion power plant;
1,152,000,000,000-kWs rechargeable power cell.
Occ: 30 cabins. Cargo: 100,000 cf.
Armor F RL B T U
Body: 2/38,400* 2/37,900* 2/37,800* 2/36,300* 2/36,700*
* plus force screen generators as described below.
Weaponry
1.44-TJ Fusion Gun [Bod:F] (18 shots) +2.
160-GJ Fusion Gun [Bod:R] (54 shots) +2.
160-GJ Fusion Gun [Bod:L] (54 shots) +2.
Two 400-MJ Flamers [Bod:F] (2,160 shots each) +2.
400-MJ Flamer [Bod:R] (2,160 shots) +2.
400-MJ Flamer [Bod:L] (2,160 shots) +2.
Two 400-MJ Flamers [Bod:B] (2,160 shots each) +2.
Two 400-MJ Flamers [Bod:T] (2,160 shots each) +2.
Two 400-MJ Flamers [Bod:U] (2,160 shots each) +2.
Equipment:
Body: Full stabilization for 1.44-TJ Fusion Gun; full stabilization
and cyberslave mounts for 160-GJ Fusion Guns and 400-MJ Flamers; ten
extreme-range neutrino communicators; four extreme-range gravity ripple
communicators; medium-range FTL communicator; 22,896,000-lightsecond
(265-lightday) FTL radar; 20,304,000-lightsecond (235-lightday) FTL
radar; 728,000-mile PESA; 736,000-mile PESA; 756,000-mile PESA;
780,000-mile PESA; 300,000-mile multiscanner; 300,000-mile gravscanner;
two 3,000-AU Hyperspace Emergence detectors; two 3,000-AU FTL scan
detectors; four x1,000 astronomical instruments; four sets of precision
navigation instruments; four IFF; four inertial navigation systems; four
area jammers, rating 18; four deceptive jammers, rating 18; C13
biocomputer, robotic, sentient, macroframe brain (DX 14, IQ 18); 90
terminals; 50 full fire suppression systems; lab; 75 cyberswarm hives
(gravitic flyer, rechargeable AA, repair swarms); ST 300,000 combination
beam; operating room; 20 cryonic capsules; ten automeds; 25-man mess; 15
forcelocks; space dock for 150,000 cf of subcraft; FSR 240 heavy-duty,
energy screen generator (DR 72,000); FSR 270 stealth screen generator
(DR 40,500); 385-man total life support system; 315-man total life
support system; 149 grav units; 100 grav compensators. External: Radical
emission cloaking; radical stealth; instant chameleon; radiation
shielding; thermal-superconducting armor.
Statistics
Size: 600'x200'x100' Payload: 4,000 tons Lwt.: 100,000 tons
Volume: 4,000,000 cf Maint.: 1,140 man-hours Price: $56,446,131,000
HT: 6. HPs: 900,000 Body
sAccel: 20 Gs sMR: 20 FTL Speed: 20 x basic FTL factor.
Design Notes
Body is 4,000,000 cf, with total compartmentalization. Structure is
extra-heavy, standard, robotic, biomechanical. Armor is non-rigid.
Self-sealing. 1,978 cf of empty space. Empty weight is 192,000,000 lbs.
Weapon Weight Volume Cost Power WPS VPS CPS
TL
400-MJ Flamer 400,000 8,000 $10,000,000 16,000,000 - - -
14
160-GJ Fusion Gun 4,000,000 80,000 $600,000,000 4,320,000,000 - - -
14
1.44-TJ Fusion Gun 24,000,000 480,000 $3,600,000,000 12,960,000,000 - - -
14
Weapon Ammo Malf. Type Damage SS Acc 1/2D Max RoF
400-MJ Flamer - ver. spcl. 6d*392 30 29 118,000 354,000 8*
160-GJ Fusion Gun - ver. spcl. 6d*5,687 30 33 1,457,000 4,371,000 3~
1.44-TJ Fusion Gun - ver. spcl. 6d*11,830 30 36 4,372,000 13,116,000 1
The vehicle uses the design rules from Vehicles [second edition, third
printing, December '09 errata], Robots, 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.
Bioship Destroyer Escort, Spaceships Version v1.0 (TL12^)
Design 2011 by Kenneth Peters, color text 2011 by Onno Meyer
At roughly 100,000 tons, this Bioship is large enough for independent
interstellar deployments. The Destroyer Escort is used in an economy of
force role, where a fleet destroyer two or three times her size is not
required.
The bioship is roughly 200 yards long. Almost half of her length are
antenna clusters in front and thruster vanes in the rear, while most of
her mass is concentrated in a lumpy egg 300' by 250' by 100'.
The payload section contains thirty cabins, a spacedock for 3,000 tons
of subcraft, cargo holds, and a small scientific and medical section.
It has a 100,000-ton (SM +12) hull about 600 feet in length.
Systems Table
Front Hull System
[1] Organic Armor (dDR 30).
[2] Tactical Array (comm/sensor 15).
[3-4!] Major Batteries (fixed 30 GJ improved plasma beam each).
[5!] Heavy Force Screen (dDR 500, or dDR 1,000 with two Power
Points).
[6!] Spinal Battery (100 GJ improved plasma beam).
[core] Sapient Brain (comm/sensor 9).
Central Hull System
[1] Organic Armor (dDR 30).
[2!] Secondary Battery (ten fixed 300 MJ rapid fire improved
plasma beams).
[3-4!] Super Stardrive Engines (FTL-1, or FTL-2 with two Power
Points).
[5-6] Total Conversion Power Plants (five Power Points each).
[core!] Spinal Battery (central system).
Rear Hull System
[1] Organic Armor (dDR 30).
[2!] Spinal Battery (rear system).
[3!] Super Reactionless Drive (100G acceleration).
[4] Habitat (30 cabins with total life support, two briefing
rooms, 20 hibernation chambers, two minifac robofacs, ops
center, 10-bed clinic with automeds, and 2,555 tons
cargo).
[5] Hangar Bay (3,000 tons capacity).
[6] Weapon Tail (one 10 GJ tractor beam).
The vessel benefits from total automation. It has the artificial
gravity, gravitic compensator, stealth, and dynamic chameleon features.
Force field is cloaking.
TL Spacecraft dST/HP Hnd/SR HT Move Lwt. Load SM Occ
dDR Range Cost
PILOTING/TL12 (HIGH-PERFORMANCE SPACECRAFT)
12^ Bioship Destroyer Escort 300 0/5 13 100G/c 100,000 5,563 +12 60ASV*
30** 4x $38,588M
* Plus 20 in suspended animation.
** Add dDR 500 (dDR 1,000 if using two Power Points) if force screen is
powered up.
Atmospheric top speed is 2,500 mph and Hnd/SR 0/5.
Next Week: A 300 kiloton bioship.
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