Eric wrote: > Perhaps deploy a few larger supply "albatross" with RTGs or larger/laser > communicators?
Hello Eric, at TL8, RTGs look very heavy for a light aircraft. > >> I'm less worried about launching all the Pigeons from a container at > >> once than simply shipping them around - I'd be perfectly happy to send > >> them as cargo, if that was legal. > > > > Yes. Consider the notes re cargo ramps. > > in vehicles, you use > Vehicle Bay (VE70-71). Your .383cf birds will take up 0.4cf each. > > from the text, you can drop /all of them at once/ out of little doors > for no extra cost. My worry was that individual vehicle bays imply individual hatches. Vehicles doesn't track surface area for components other than solar cells and top decks, but that doesn't mean a vehicle designer should use that rules loophole. > otherwise, the efficiency should be considered like Hangar Bay (same > page) -- 1.5cf/cf (vs. Veh Bay's 1.05cf/cf) That runs into reality checks, too. If we have this little helicopter with folded rotors, and a hangar deck to scale with the helicopter, how do you get the rearmost pigeons out? My ideas were: - Put each pigeon into a styrofoam box and ship it as cargo. Launching required a human to open the box, open the rotor, and set it onto a level surface for takeoff. (Does it have landing gear, btw?) - Do it like GURPS Traveller and launch a vehicle from a missile launcher. That implies that the rotors can unfold automatically. Of course GT did it for drone missiles, not drone helicopters, so it looks a little strange. If there is no requirement for mass launches, I would go with the first option. Regards, Onno _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
