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, 2011-10-31
Carter-Class Small Rocket Ship v1.0 (TL9) Copyright 2011 by Onno Meyer In an age when heroes could pilot their rocket ships with slide rules alone, when industrialist would personally take their latest inventions into space, this could have been the first ship with a new drive, going where no man has gone before. The nose of the sleek rocket ship contains the flight deck with three seats for the pilot, copilot, and flight engineer. An optical telescope and a radar help with navigation. The small cabin in the middle of the ship has five bunks, so there is room for two passengers -- perhaps an alien princess or a plucky reporter, to stay in genre. Lockers next to the airlock hold cargo, food, and other supplies. The rear half of the ship is taken by the engine room, with the reactor, the thruster, and the life support. Subassemblies: Body +6, three retractable Wheels +2. Powertrain: 50,000-lb. super reactionless thruster; 25,600-kW super MHD fusion reactor; 270,000-kWs rechargeable E power cell. Occ: 3 bridge NCS, 5 bunks. Cargo: 50 cf. Armor F RL B T U Body: 4/40 4/40 4/40 4/40 4/40 Wheels: 3/10 3/10 3/10 3/10 3/10 Equipment: Body: Long-range radio; very-long-range tight-beam radio; 75-mile multimode radar in 5' periscope; x200 stabilized telescope; set of precision navigation instruments; autopilot; advanced radar/laser detector; 1-man airlock; 5-man full life system. External: Hyperdynamic field grid. Statistics Size: 60'x12'x12' Payload: 1 ton Lwt.: 25 tons Volume: 5,000 cf Maint.: 16 man-hours Price: $10,815,550 HT: 12. HPs: 3,000 Body, 250 each Wheel gSpeed: 395 gAccel: 20 gDecel: 10 gMR: 0.125 gSR: 3 Ground Pressure Very High. 1/8 Off-Road Speed. aSpeed: 1,935 aAccel: 20 aDecel: 6 aMR: 1.5 aSR: 3 Stall Speed 155. sSpeed: 193,500 sAccel: 20 mph/s sDecel: 20 mph/s sMR: 150 sSR: 3 Design Notes Body is 5,000 cf, with excellent streamlining and lifting body. Wheels are 250 cf, retract into body. Structure is medium, advanced. Armor is advanced metal. Sealed. 507.43 cf of empty space. Empty weight is 48,000 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. Next Week: A larger craft. _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
