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, 2011-09-05
Battle Starfighter Mk.V v1.0 (TL12) Copyright 2011 by Onno Meyer The Battle Starfighter Mark V is a space superiority craft. It carries 192 hyperspace torpedoes to saturate the enemy point defense with a huge salvo, and eight x-ray lasers to defend against isolated attacks. Most deep space engagements between battle squadrons are inconclusive, since the inferior force can always escape into hyperspace. Battles for inhabited planets are characterized by attempts to drive the enemy into hyper, and to clear a way for strike squadrons or landing craft. The Mark V is a blunt cylinder. It is strongly compartmentalized, and weapons and sensors are dispersed along the hull to minimize the effect of beam hits or proximity explosions. The fighter is unstreamlined, but contragrav allows planetary landings. The normal crew consists of a pilot, a copilot, an astrogator, three gunners, and two engineers. There is room for squadron or wing command staff if required -- usually the commander, XO, and operations officer all ride in different starfighters. It takes 9 minutes to recharge the power cells for one minimum-energy hyperspace entry, or 44 x-ray laser pulses can be recharged each second. The full load of torpedoes costs $149,078,400. Subassemblies: Body +8, eight full-rotation pop Turrets +2. Powertrain: Six ruggedized 1,600,000-lb. vectored super reactionless thrusters; 4,000-ton hyperdrive; ruggedized 800-ton hyperdrive; two 3,200,000-lb. contragrav generators; 50-kW RTG; three 600,000-kW fusion reactors; eight 270,000,000-kWs rechargeable power cells. Occ: 8 bridge RCS, 8 folding CS, 8 cabins. Cargo: 80 cf. Armor F RL B T U All: 4/360* 4/360* 4/360* 4/360* 4/360* * plus force screen. Weaponry Eight 4.5-MJ Gatling X-Ray Lasers [Tur:F] (4,500 shots each) +2. 96-Shot Torpedo Rack [Bod:R] (96 torpedoes) +2. 96-Shot Torpedo Rack [Bod:L] (96 torpedoes) +2. Equipment: Body: Long-range radio; long-range laser communicator; 24 long-range neutrino communicators with scramblers; two extreme-range gravity ripple communicators with scramblers; two 500-mile AESAs, LPI; four 3,600-lightsecond FTL radars; two 3,600-mile PESAs; 2,500-mile multiscanner; four x400 astronomical LLTVs; two 2,000-lightsecond FTL scan detectors; two 2,000-lightsecond hyperspace emergence detectors; precision navigation instruments; four IFF; six inertial navigation systems; two terrain-following radars; eight HUDWACs with pupil scanners; deceptive jammer, rating 16; two C10 hardened, high-capacity, robotic macroframes; twenty ruggedized terminals; four full fire suppression systems; engineering workshop; four cyberswarm hives (armored crawler, rechargeable AA, cleaning swarms); four cyberswarm hives (armored crawler, rechargeable AA, repair swarms); automed; three forcelocks; two vehicle bays (for 160-cf Personnel Landers); FSR 80 stealth screen (DR 6,000); two 40-man total life support systems; three grav units; eight G-seats; eight 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: 120'x30'x30' Payload: 100 tons Lwt.: 800 tons Volume: 80,000 cf Maint.: 65 man-hours Price: $181,431,425 HT: 12. HPs: 72,000 Body, 600 each Turret aSpeed: 600 aAccel: 120 aDecel: 10 aMR: 2.5 aSR: 6 sAccel: 6 G sMR: 6 FTL Speed: 1.2 parsec/day. Design Notes Body is 80,000 cf, with underbelly skids. Turrets are 45 cf each, retract into body. Structure is extra-heavy, expensive, robotic, with total compartmentalization. Armor is expensive laminate. Sealed. Computerized controls with quadruple maneuver controls. 7,241.25 cf of empty space. 192 300mm Torpedoes are carried in the body. Empty weight is 1,400,000 lbs. Weapon Weight Volume Cost Power WPS VPS CPS TL 4.5-MJ Gatling X-Ray Laser 500 10 $47,000 192,000 - - - 12 96-Shot Torpedo Rack 39,000 780 $245,000 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 low-tech Traveller ATV. _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
