This is a weekly posting with GURPS vehicles (and the like) to the GURPSnet mailing list. I grant the permission for all non-commercial redistribution of my work, but I would like to know if you put it on a website or the like. The files at omeyer.gmxhome.de are down until I fix the automatic PDF generation, which should be one of these days - see sourceforge.net/projects/gurpsml Onno Meyer, 2011-08-22
Escort Starfighter Mk.V v1.0 (TL12) Copyright 2011 by Onno Meyer The Escort Starfighter Mark V protects convoys and task forces against torpedo attacks. It is armed with ten x-ray laser systems and 32 torpedo launchers. The fighter can reach 1,430 c in hyperspace and 6 G sublight acceleration. The fighter was designed for deep space operations. Aerodynamics took second place to sensor coverage and interlocking fields of fire for the lasers. The nose holds the torpedo rack, a docking airlock, and a small surgery. The bridge and the crew cabins are protected in the center of the hull, sandwiched between sensor bays, and the engine rooms are in the rear. The normal crew are a pilot, an astrogator, a gunner, and an engineer. During patrols, the fighter carries a small boarding team as well, and it has a Personnel Lander to deploy them. It takes 17 minutes to recharge the power cells for one minimum-energy hyperspace entry, and 0.2 seconds to recharge one x-ray laser pulse. The full load of torpedoes costs $27,952,200. Subassemblies: Body +7, ten full-rotation pop Turrets +2. Powertrain: Four 600,000-lb. vectored super reactionless thrusters; 1,200-ton hyperdrive; two 800,000-lb. contragrav generators; 20-kW RTG; two 150,000-kW fusion reactors; two 270,000,000-kWs rechargeable power cells. Occ: 4 bridge RCS, 4 cabins. Cargo: 80 cf. Armor F RL B T U Body: 4/720* 4/720* 4/720* 4/720* 4/720* Turrets: 4/360* 4/360* 4/360* 4/360* 4/360* * plus force screen. Weaponry Ten 4.5-MJ Gatling X-Ray Lasers [Tur:F] (900 shots each) +2. 36-Shot Torpedo Rack [Bod:F] (36 torpedoes) +2. Equipment: Body: Long-range radio; long-range laser communicator; eight long-range neutrino communicators with scramblers; two extreme-range gravity ripple communicators with scramblers; two 500-mile AESAs, LPI; two 3,600-lightsecond FTL radars; two 3,600-mile PESAs; 1,000-mile multiscanner; two x400 astronomical LLTVs; 1,000-lightsecond FTL scan detector; 1,000-lightsecond hyperspace emergence detector; precision navigation instruments; four IFF; four inertial navigation systems; two terrain-following radars; four HUDWACs with pupil scanners; area jammer, rating 16; deceptive jammer, rating 16; eight C9 hardened, high-capacity, robotic mainframes; four terminals; full fire suppression system; two cyberswarm hives (armored crawler, rechargeable AA, cleaning swarms); two cyberswarm hives (armored crawler, rechargeable AA, repair swarms); automed; diagnosis table; three forcelocks; vehicle bay (for 160-cf Personnel Lander); FSR 40 stealth screen (DR 3,000); two 20-man full life support systems; grav unit; four G-seats; four gravity webs. Turrets: Full stabilization and universal mounts; 200-lightsecond FTL radars. External: Basic emission cloaking; basic stealth; radiation shielding; thermal superconducting armor. Statistics Size: 60'x30'x15' Payload: 20 tons Lwt.: 200 tons Volume: 20,000 cf Maint.: 32 man-hours Price: $45,272,625 HT: 12. HPs: 30,000 Body, 600 each Turret aSpeed: 600 aAccel: 120 aDecel: 12 aMR: 3 aSR: 6 sAccel: 6 G sMR: 6 FTL Speed: 1.2 parsec/day. Design Notes Body is 20,000 cf, with underbelly skids. Turrets are 45 cf each, retract into body. Structure is extra-heavy, expensive, robotic, with heavy compartmentalization. Armor is expensive laminate. Sealed. Computerized controls with duplicate maneuver controls. 4,815.35 cf of empty space. 36 300mm Torpedoes are carried in the body. Empty weight is 360,000 lbs. Weapon Weight Volume Cost Power WPS VPS CPS TL 4.5-MJ Gatling X-Ray Laser 500 10 $47,000 192,000 - - - 12 36-Shot Torpedo Rack 15,000 300 $95,000 neg. 1,000 20 $776,450 12 Weapon Ammo Malf. Type Damage SS Acc 1/2D Max RoF 4.5-MJ Gatling X-Ray Laser - v(c) imp. 6d*9(2) 20 27 48,000 144,000 16* The vehicle uses the design rules from Vehicles [second edition, third printing, Dec 2009 errata], RO, VXi,and VXii (including the armor volume rule) with the text format from Vehicles Lite. Next Week: A 400-ton strike fighter. _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
