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Onno Meyer, 2012-01-30
Robot Space Cruiser Mk.VIIIa v1.0 (TL15)
Copyright 2012 by Onno Meyer
The Mk.VIIIa is a fully automated starship. Without a biological crew,
she can mount more armor, bigger engines, and larger guns than a normal
Mk.VIII Cruiser.
Her hull is a 200 m sphere, with bulges and blisters for the sublight
thrusters, the weapons, and the sensor arrays. On average, her armor is
6 m thick, and it is covered by four layered force screens. She has an
airlock on the lowermost deck, and usually one of the three hangars is
left empty for visiting craft.
The crew are more than a million robots, ranging from microbot repair
swarms to thousand-ton robot starfighters, and any size in between. She
has passenger quarters for 50 to 100 humanoids, and even a chamber to
talk to the AI, but that is just to comfort the passengers -- the real
robot brain is distributed through the ship. Going beyond the quarters,
into the engineering sections, is a harrowing experience. There are no
catwalks, no safety railings, no room numbers, often not even lights.
She is armed with one 54-TJ antiparticle beam, a secondary battery of
3.6-TJ antiparticle beams and fusion guns, and 6.4-GJ grasers for point
defense. In a notional engagement between a Mk.VIIIa and a Mk.VIII, the
main gun of the Robot Cruiser could fire right through the screens and
armor of the ordinary ship, and the faster Robot Cruiser could pick her
range at will.
Subassemblies: Body +15.
Powertrain: Ten vectored 22,500,000-ton mega reactionless thrusters; ten
22,500,000-ton hyperdrives; four 7,500,000-ton contragrav generators;
two 10,000,000-kW fusion reactors; four 6,000,000,000-kW total
conversion power plants; fifteen 6,750,000,000,000-kWs rechargeable
power cells.
Occ: 50 luxury cabins. Cargo: 1,200,000 cf.
Armor F RL B T U
Body: 4/450,000* 4/450,000* 4/450,000* 4/450,000* 4/450,000*
* plus force screen generators as described below.
Weaponry
54-TJ Antiparticle Gun [Bod:F] (80 shots) +17.
3.6-TJ Antiparticle Gun [Bod:R] (50 shots) +17.
3.6-TJ Antiparticle Gun [Bod:L] (50 shots) +17.
3.6-TJ Antiparticle Gun [Bod:T] (50 shots) +17.
3.6-TJ Antiparticle Gun [Bod:U] (50 shots) +17.
3.6-TJ Fusion Gun [Bod:R] (50 shots) +17.
3.6-TJ Fusion Gun [Bod:L] (50 shots) +17.
3.6-TJ Fusion Gun [Bod:T] (50 shots) +17.
3.6-TJ Fusion Gun [Bod:U] 50 shots) +17.
Six 6.4-GJ Grasers [Bod:R] (2,540 shots each) +17.
Six 6.4-GJ Grasers [Bod:L] (2,540 shots each) +17.
Six 6.4-GJ Grasers [Bod:T] (2,540 shots each) +17.
Six 6.4-GJ Grasers [Bod:U] (2,540 shots each) +17.
Equipment:
Body: Full stabilization for 54-TJ Antiparticle Gun; cyberslave mounts
and full stabilization for all other weapons; two extreme-range radios;
four extreme-range laser communicators; six extreme-range neutrino
communicators; six extreme-range gravity ripple communicators;
long-range FTL communicator; eight 100,000-mile AESAs, LPI; four
155,520,000-lightsecond (60-lightmonth) FTL radars; eight 1,000,000-mile
PESAs; four 2,000,000-mile multiscanners; 1,000,000-mile gravscanner;
two 10,000-AU Hyperspace Emergence detectors; two 10,000-AU FTL Scan
detectors; high-resolution planetary survey array; four x2,500
astronomical instruments; four sets of precision navigation instruments;
four IFF; six inertial navigation systems; four area jammers, rating 20;
four deceptive jammers, rating 20; parallel computer (100 genius,
hardened, robotic, sentient macroframes, C16, IQ 21, DX 16); 33 C14
dedicated, genius, hardened macroframes with C14 targeting; 200
terminals; 500 full fire suppression systems; ten complete workshops;
500 cyberslave hives (gravflyer, solar AA cell, repair swarms), four ST
100,000 combination beams; 32 cryonic capsules; 32 automeds; four 20-man
airlocks; three space docks for 500,000 cf of subcraft each; two 40-mile
nuclear dampers; FSR 300 kinetic screen generator (DR 90,000); FSR 400
simple shaped screen generator (DR 80,000); FSR 500 heavy-duty, energy
screen generator (DR 200,000); FSR 600 stealth screen generator (DR
120,000); ten 100-man total life support systems; 5,556 grav units;
7,500 grav compensators. External: Radical emission cloaking; radical
stealth; intruder chameleon; radiation shielding; thermal
superconducting armor.
Statistics
Size: 670'x670'x670' Payload: 50,000 tons Lwt.: 7,500,000 tons
Volume: 150,000,000 cf Maint.: 11,564 man-hours Price: $5,819,583,416,500
HT: 5. HPs: 20,280,000 Body
aSpeed: 94,740 aAccel: 600 aDecel: 2 aMR: 0.5 aSR: 7
sAccel: 30 Gs sMR: 30 FTL Speed: 30 x basic FTL factor.
Design Notes
Body is 150,000,000 cf, with total compartmentalization and underbelly
skids. Structure is ultra-heavy, advanced, robotic. Armor is advanced
laminate. Sealed. 544,076 cf of empty space. Empty weight is
14,900,000,000 lbs.
Weapon Weight Volume Cost Power
WPS VPS CPS TL
6.4-GJ Graser 200,000 4,000 $53,000,000 76,800,000
- - - 15
3.6-TJ Fusion Gun 20,000,000 400,000 $12,000,000,000 16,200,000,000
- - - 15
3.6-TJ Antiparticle Gun 20,000,000 400,000 $15,000,000,000 4,500,000,000
- - - 15
54-TJ Antiparticle Gun 300,000,000 6,000,000 $230,000,000,000 67,500,000,000
- - - 15
Weapon Ammo Malf. Type Damage SS Acc 1/2D Max
RoF
6.4-GJ Graser - v(c) imp. 6d*199(5) 30 36 1,670,000
5,010,000 4*
3.6-TJ Fusion Gun - ver. spcl. 6d*18,975 30 40 7,488,000
22,464,000 1/2
3.6-TJ Antiparticle Gun - ver. spcl. 6d*9,487(2) 30 40 9,360,000
28,080,000 1/2
54-TJ Antiparticle Gun - ver. spcl. 6d*23,398(2) 30 44 36,251,000
108,753,000 1/2
The vehicle uses the design rules from Vehicles [second edition, third
printing, January 2007 errata], VXi (including the structural volume
rule), VXii (including the armor volume rule), UTT and Robots with the
text format from Vehicles Lite. The GM should probably set a FTL factor
well over 0.2, perhaps in the five figures for intergalactic flights.
Next Week: A smaller, less advanced starship.
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