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, 2011-11-07
Thoris-Class Large Rocket Ship v1.0 (TL9) Copyright 2011 by Onno Meyer This rocket ship could carry mankind to the steaming jungles of Venus and the desolate deserts of Mars. She is a combined passenger and cargo liner, with pullman berths for 180 passengers and 20 crew, and roughly 160 tons of payload -- the exact capacity depends on the food required for the voyage. The ship has two decks, passengers on the upper deck and cargo on the lower deck. The passenger section is divided into six-bunk compartments, a large dining room, and a smaller lounge. The bridge crew has two-bunk cubicles, so with a regular watch cycle the off-duty officers can find some privacy. The service crew and the black gang share two bunk rooms aft near the engines. Usually the rocket ship operates from runways, but on worlds smaller than Earth, she can use vertical launch gantries as well. Subassemblies: Body +9, six retractable Wheels +5. Powertrain: 2,000,000-lb. super reactionless thruster; two 512,000-kW super MHD fusion reactors. Occ: 10 bridge RCS, 200 bunks. Cargo: 18,000 cf. Armor F RL B T U Body: 4/60 4/60 4/60 4/60 4/60 Wheels: 3/10 3/10 3/10 3/10 3/10 Equipment: Body: Extreme-range radio; extreme-range, tight-beam radio; 150-mile multimode radar; x200 stabilized telescope; set of precision navigation instruments; autopilot; two advanced radar/laser detectors; 25-man bar; 75-man restaurant; 10-man airlock; 250-man full life system. External: Hyperdynamic field grid. Statistics Size: 300'x30'x30' Payload: 200 tons Lwt.: 1,000 tons Volume: 200,000 cf Maint.: 63 man-hours Price: $173,560,200 HT: 9. HPs: 37,500 Body, 1,500 each Wheel gSpeed: 395 gAccel: 20 gDecel: 10 gMR: 0.125 gSR: 3 Ground Pressure Extremely High. No Off-Road Speed. aSpeed: 1,730 aAccel: 20 aDecel: 0.5 aMR: 0.125 aSR: 5 Stall Speed 250. sSpeed: 173,000 sAccel: 20 mph/s sDecel: 20 mph/s sMR: 100 sSR: 5 Design Notes Body is 200,000 cf, with very good streamlining and lifting body. Wheels are 10,000 cf, retract into body. Structure is medium, advanced. Armor is advanced metal. Sealed. 17,450 cf of empty space. Empty weight is 1,600,000 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: Still under construction ... _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
