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, 2011-10-24
100-ton Sandjammer Pride of Lismore v1.0 (GURPS Traveller TL5) Copyright 2011 by Onno Meyer The desert world Yori retained some modern technology during the Long Night, but access to contragrav aircraft was heavily regulated. With no ground vehicle industry to speak of, the rural settlements were left to improvise sail-powered craft. These days, the Sandjammers are nothing more than a quaint relic of old times. A typical Sandjammer like the Pride of Lismore is a wooden frame, 45m long and 10m wide, with three iron skids and three large masts. On that frame there is a plywood box with a control room, quarters, and cargo holds. The top deck is a maze of rigging. Under the conditions of Yori, with 0.59 standard gravities, the Pride can reach 35 kph in the open desert, and 100 kph on smooth salt flats. Subassemblies: Body +8, three Skids +4, Mast +3, two Masts +2. Powertrain: 15,000-sf full rig cloth sails; 6' windmill; 3,000-kWs lead-acid batteries. Occ: 2 RCS, 20 bunks. Cargo: 5,800 cf. Armor F RL B T U Body: 2/2 2/2 2/2 2/2 2/2 Skids: 3/10 3/10 3/10 3/10 3/10 Masts: 3/10 3/10 3/10 3/10 3/10 Equipment: Body: Heliograph, meteorological instruments; set of navigation instruments; 20-man bar. External: Tow pin. Statistics Size: 150'x50'x150' Payload: 60 tons Lwt.: 100 tons Volume: 52,806 cf Maint.: 62 hours Price: $105,545 HT: 9. HPs: 3,750 Body, 150 each Skid. With a light breeze (Beaufort scale 2): gSpeed: 35 gAccel: 5 gDecel: 5 gMR: 0.125 gSR: 4 Ground Pressure Low. 1/3 Off-Road Speed. With a fresh breeze (Beaufort scale 5): gSpeed: 50 gAccel: 5 gDecel: 5 gMR: 0.125 gSR: 4 Ground Pressure Low. 1/3 Off-Road Speed. Design Notes Body is 50,000 cf. Skids are 2,500 cf. Masts are 100 cf (100'), 133.1 cf (110') and 72.9 cf (90'). Structure is extra-light, expensive. Armor is expensive wood on Body and Masts, expensive metal on Skids. 39,756.95 cf of empty space. Empty weight is 80,000 lbs. The vehicle uses the design rules from Vehicles [second edition, third printing, December '09 errata], VXi and VXii (including the armor volume rule) with the text format from Vehicles Lite. The Traveller rules affect the background and design choices, but not the technology of this vehicle. Next Week: Just the ship for an intrepid band of heroes. _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
