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, 2011-10-17
Dur-Class 1,000-ton Lift Transport v1.0 (GURPS Traveller TL9) Copyright 2011 by Onno Meyer Yori is a desert world in the Spinward Marches. The population centers are located in the polar regions, and large contragrav aircraft like the Dur-class Transport cruise over the rugged mountain ranges and scorching salt flats of the equatorial regions. The Lift Transport has a cargo deck with a large bow ramp, a passenger deck with 72 cabins, and a promenade deck with the dining area and large viewports. An airlock leads to the landing deck on top, where intrepid voyagers can feel the wind in their faces -- most crewmembers sensibly stay in the pressurized, moisture-sealed interior of the hull. At 225 mph, the engines burn 2,160 gallons of diesel per hour for an endurance of 50 hours and 11,250 miles. At 375 mph, the range drops to 6,250 miles. A full load of fuel is $129,600. Subassemblies: Body +10. Powertrain: Ten 6,250-kW ducted fans; ten 600,000-lb. contragrav generators; ten 7,200-kW supercharged ceramic engines; five 270,000-kWs rechargeable E power cells. Fuel: 108,000 gallons diesel (fire on 7). Occ: 10 bridge RCS, 80 cabins. Cargo: 180,000 cf. Armor F RL B T U Body: 4/16 4/16 4/16 4/16 4/16 Equipment: Body: Two long-range radios; 5-mile searchlight; 100-mile radar, no targeting; two sets of meteorology instruments; two sets of navigation instruments; two transponders; inertial navigation system; two global positioning systems; advanced radar/laser detector; four C3 hardened, small computers; ten terminals; eight full fire suppression systems; cargo ramp; 30-man airlock; 6-man airlock; 160-man full life system. External: 6,000 sf landing pad. Statistics Size: 245'x66'x48' Payload: 2,140 tons Lwt.: 2,500 tons Volume: 500,000 cf Maint.: 13 man-hours Price: $7,518,100 HT: 7. HPs: 60,000 Body. aSpeed: 375 gAccel: 1 gDecel: 0.5 gMR: 0.125 gSR: 7 Stall Speed 0. Ceiling 12,000 yards. Design Notes Body is 500,000 cf, with good streamlining and underbelly skids. Structure is medium, standard. Armor is standard metal. Sealed. Computerized controls with duplicate maneuver controls. 165,945 cf of empty space. Empty weight is 720,000 lbs. The vehicle uses the design rules from Vehicles [second edition, third printing, December '09 errata], GURPS Traveller, VXi and VXii (including the armor volume rule) with the text format from Vehicles Lite. Next Week: A sand sailer. _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
