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, 2012-03-19
Spacebase v1.0 (TL10) Copyright 2012 by Onno Meyer Trading post, communications node, repair facility -- the Spacebase is all that and more. She was constructed in orbit around a promising world on the frontier. A century later, she might become a historical monument in a vibrant industrialized system, a dusty and forgotten place bypassed by the starlanes, or something in between. The station consists of the habitat ring and the central hub. She has grav generators, so there is no need for spin, but a ring configuration provides a dozen convenient docking ports. One more airlock, designated zero rather than thirteen, leads directly to the engineering section in the hub. When visitors think of the Spacebase, they think of the main corridor of the habitat ring. The corridor leads completely around the ring, and it connects the docking ports, the shuttle hangars, cargo bays, hostels for visiting spacers, the commercial sections, and the large market. It is claimed that anything can be bought and sold on The Main, from alien herbal remedies to freshly pressed fruit juice, from custom-made engine parts to clean ship's papers -- and if it isn't available, there will a broker who can find it for a price. The central hub has ten decks, and it houses the command center, the fusion reactors, the maintenance workshop, and cabins for the technical crew and a few permanent residents who prefer a sedate living place. When visitors come to the hub, it is usually to handle paperwork with the dockmaster, or to get intoxicated crewmembers out of the security office. Subassemblies: Body +10, Superstructure +8. Powertrain: Ten vectored 20,000-lb. super reactionless thrusters; three 100,000-kW fusion reactors; 360,000,000-kWs rechargeable power cell. Occ: 10 bridge RCS, 400 cabins, 100 luxury cabins. Cargo: 100,000 cf. Armor F RL B T U All: 4/600 4/600 4/600 4/600 4/600 Equipment: Body: Three 10,000-mile AESAs; three 1,000-mile PESAs; three IFF; 600 terminals; 90 full fire suppression systems; eight science labs (botany, cartography, chemistry, forensics, physics, two prospecting, xenology); 37 craft shops (three beverage-making, carpentry, four distilling, flower arranging, five gardening, glassblowing, herbary, two jeweler, leatherworking, lockpicking, two origami, professional skill (printer), pottery, four sewing, two sex appeal, tattooing, tea ceremony, video production, weaving, two woodworking, yin/yang healing); three operating rooms; ten automeds; 15-man bar; 50-man bar; 60-man bar; four 20-man conference rooms; 60-man mess; three 20-man restaurants; 50-man restaurant; 15 50-man airlocks; three space docks for 30,000 cf of subcraft each; two 1,000-man total life systems; 34 grav units. Superstructure: Six extreme-range radios; six extreme-range, tight-beam radios; six extreme-range laser communicators; three 5,000-lightsecond FTL radars; three 1,000-mile PESAs; two 1,000-mile multiscanners; 1,000-lightsecond FTL scan detector; two x4,000 astronomical LLTVs; three sets of precision navigation instruments; three IFF; six inertial navigation systems; three C8 hardend macroframes; 400 terminals; ten full fire suppression systems; twelve complete workshops; 25-man mess; 50-man airlock; 20-bunk brig; two 500-man full life systems; four grav units. External: Radiation shielding. Statistics Size: 300'x300'x100' Payload: 2,000 tons Lwt.: 10,000 tons Volume: 1,000,000 cf Maint.: 45 man-hours Price: $87,517,400 HT: 9. HPs: 360,000 Body, 90,000 Superstructure sAccel: 0.01 sMR: 0.01 Design Notes Body is 900,000 cf. Superstructure is 100,000 cf. Structure is extra-heavy, cheap. Armor is cheap metal. Sealed. Computerized controls. 206,449 cf of empty space in the body and 660 cf in the superstructure. Empty weight is 16,000,000 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 little warp ship for day trips. _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
