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Onno Meyer, 2011-07-11
Bioship Destroyer v1.0 (TL14)
Copyright 2011 by Onno Meyer
At 300,000 tons, the Bioship becomes a capable interstellar warship. A
fleet destroyer can screen capital ships, scout for the battle fleet, or
lead the escort force of a merchant convoy.
Her hull is an ovoid 200 yards long, with antenna clusters on the prow
and thruster projection vanes in the stern adding another 100 yards. The
tractor beam emitter also extends to the rear.
The spinal fusion gun of the Bioship Destroyer has grown large enough
to penetrate 15 feet of modern laminate armor or 500 feet of steel. Her
lateral fusion guns might be able to punch through 7 feet of laminates.
The payload section contains a hundred cabins for human passengers, a
small sickbay, cryosleep facilities, cargo holds and a hangar for about
10,000 tons of subcraft -- usually a mix of conventional shuttles and
smaller bioships.
Subassemblies: Body +13.
Powertrain: 1,399,752-ton vectored mega reactionless thruster;
1,484,163-ton vectored mega reactionless thruster; 1,515,839-ton
vectored mega reactionless thruster; 1,600,246-ton vectored mega
reactionless thruster; 6,000,000-ton hyperdrive; 3,000,000-ton
contragrav generator; 189,513,266-kW total conversion power plant;
198,523,105-kW total conversion power plant; 201,476,895-kW total
conversion power plant; 210,486,734-kW total conversion power plant;
3,456,000,000,000-kWs rechargeable power cell.
Occ: 100 luxury cabins. Cargo: 200,000 cf.
Armor F RL B T U
Body: 2/52,215* 2/49,551* 2/50,898* 2/50,125* 2/47,660*
* plus force screen generators as described below.
Weaponry
7.2-TJ Fusion Gun [Bod:F] (14 shots) +2.
720-TJ Fusion Gun [Bod:R] (28 shots) +2.
720-TJ Fusion Gun [Bod:L] (28 shots) +2.
Two 1.44-GJ Flamers [Bod:F] (360 shots each) +2.
1.44-GJ Flamer [Bod:R] (360 shots) +2.
1.44-GJ Flamer [Bod:L] (360 shots) +2.
Two 1.44-GJ Flamers [Bod:B] (360 shots each) +2.
Two 1.44-GJ Flamers [Bod:T] (360 shots each) +2.
Two 1.44-GJ Flamers [Bod:U] (360 shots each) +2.
Equipment:
Body: Full stabilization for 7.2-TJ Fusion Gun; full stabilization and
cyberslave mounts for 720-GJ Fusion Guns and 1.44-GJ Flamers; ten
extreme-range neutrino communicators; four extreme-range gravity ripple
communicators; long-range FTL communicator; 69,984,000-lightsecond
(27-lightmonth) FTL radar; 59,616,000-lightsecond (23-lightmonth) FTL
radar; 1,023,817-mile PESA; 976,183-mile PESA; 1,045,120-mile PESA;
954,880-mile PESA; 1,000,000-mile multiscanner; 1,000,000-mile
gravscanner; two 5,000-AU Hyperspace Emergence detectors; two 5,000-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 20; four deceptive jammers, rating
20; C13 biocomputer, robotic, sentient, macroframe brain (DX 14, IQ 18);
175 terminals; 150 full fire suppression systems; 3 labs; 200 cyberswarm
hives (gravitic flyer, rechargeable AA, repair swarms); ST 1,000,000
combination beam; operating room; 200 cryonic capsules; ten automeds;
50-man mess; 15 forcelocks; space dock for 500,000 cf of subcraft; FSR
320 heavy-duty, energy screen generator (DR 96,000); FSR 360 stealth
screen generator (DR 54,000); 981-man total life support system;
1,019-man total life support system; 445 grav units; 300 grav
compensators. External: Radical emission cloaking; radical stealth;
instant chameleon; radiation shielding; thermal-superconducting armor.
Statistics
Size: 900'x300'x100' Payload: 12,000 tons Lwt.: 300,000 tons
Volume: 12,000,000 cf Maint.: 1,950 man-hours Price: $165,090,959,750
HT: 6. HPs: 1,860,000 Body
sAccel: 20 Gs sMR: 20 FTL Speed: 20 x basic FTL factor.
Design Notes
Body is 12,000,000 cf, with total compartmentalization. Structure is
extra-heavy, standard, robotic, biomechanical. Armor is non-rigid.
Self-sealing. 110,326 cf of empty space. Empty weight is 576,000,000
lbs.
Weapon Weight Volume Cost Power WPS VPS
CPS TL
1.44-GJ Flamer 1,200,000 24,000 $30,000,000 43,200,000 - -
- 14
720-GJ Fusion Gun 12,000,000 240,000 $1,800,000,000 6,480,000,000 - -
- 14
7.2-TJ Fusion Gun 80,000,000 1,600,000 $12,000,000,000 32,400,000,000 - -
- 14
Weapon Ammo Malf. Type Damage SS Acc 1/2D Max RoF
1.44-GJ Flamer - ver. spcl. 6d*699 30 31 225,000 675,000 6*
720-GJ Fusion Gun - ver. spcl. 6d*9,389 30 36 3,091,000 9,273,000 1
7.2-TJ Fusion Gun - ver. spcl. 6d*20,229 30 38 9,775,000 29,325,000 1/2
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, Spaceships Version v1.0 (TL12^)
Design 2011 by Kenneth Peters, color text 2011 by Onno Meyer
At 300,000 tons, the Bioship becomes a capable interstellar warship. A
fleet destroyer can screen capital ships, scout for the battle fleet, or
lead the escort force of a merchant convoy.
Her hull is an ovoid 200 yards long, with antenna clusters on the prow
and thruster projection vanes in the stern adding another 100 yards. The
tractor beam emitter also extends to the rear.
The payload section contains a hundred cabins for human passengers, a
small sickbay, cryosleep facilities, cargo holds and a hangar for about
10,000 tons of subcraft -- usually a mix of conventional shuttles and
smaller bioships.
It has a 300,000-ton (SM +13) hull about 900 feet in length.
Systems Table
Front Hull System
[1] Organic Armor (dDR 50).
[2] Tactical Array (comm/sensor 16).
[3-4!] Major Batteries (fixed 100 GJ improved plasma beam each).
[5!] Heavy Force Screen (dDR 700, or dDR 1,400 with two Power
Points).
[6!] Spinal Battery (300 GJ improved plasma beam).
[core] Sapient Brain (comm/sensor 10).
Central Hull System
[1] Organic Armor (dDR 50).
[2!] Secondary Battery (ten fixed 1 GJ rapid fire improved
plasma beams).
[3-4!] Super Stardrive Engines (each 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 50).
[2!] Spinal Battery (rear system).
[3!] Super Reactionless Drive (100G acceleration).
[4] Habitat (100 luxury cabins with total life support, three
establishments, 200 hibernation chambers, three labs, five
minifac robofacs, ops center, 10-bed clinic with automeds,
and 7,565 tons cargo).
[5] Hangar Bay (10,000 tons capacity).
[6] Weapon Tail (one 30 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 500 -1/5 13 100G/c 300,000 17,605 +13 200ASV* 50**
4x $119,559M
* Plus 200 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 -1/5.
Next Week: A Traveller cutter to visit gas giants.
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