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, 2012-08-20
Bulk Transport Mk.VII v1.0 (TL14) Copyright 2012 by Onno Meyer The Bulk Transport hauls large loads over interstellar distances. Her main bay is 85,000 cubic meters, and she can reach 5,950 times c with a normal load of 15,000 tons. The starship has a spherical hull. Three top decks contain the bridge, the avionics, the crew areas, and four liftboat docks. Five lower decks hold most of the engines and power systems. The cargo bay is sandwiched in between, 50 to 60 meters wide and 36 meters high. The bay is sealed, so the ship can handle drybulk and wetbulk cargo without modifications. Alternatively, she can be loaded with containers or grav vehicles. It takes 12 hours to recharge the power cells for one hyperspace entry. Subassemblies: Body +12. Powertrain: Six 25,000,000-lb. super reactionless thrusters; 750,000-ton hyperdrive; four 150,000,000-lb. contragrav generators; two 125,000-kW fusion reactors; six 2,500,000-kW total conversion reactors; three 90,000,000,000-kWs rechargeable power cells. Occ: 20 bridge RCS, 100 luxury cabins. Cargo: 9,000 cf. Armor F RL B T U Body: 4/800* 4/800* 4/800* 4/800* 4/800* * Plus DR 12,000 force screen. Equipment: Body: Extreme-range radio; two extreme-range laser communicators; extreme-range neutrino communicator; two extreme-range gravity ripple communicators; short-range FTL communicator; two 36,000-mile AESAs; two 36,000-lightsecond FTL radars; two 36,000-mile PESAs; two 36,000-mile multiscanners; four x500 astronomical LLTVs; two 1,000-lightsecond FTL scan detectors; two 1,000-lightsecond FTL emergence detectors; two sets of precision navigation instruments; two IFF; six inertial navigation systems; four C11 hardened mainframes; 200 terminals; 20 neural induction fields; 120 full fire suppression systems; four complete workshops; four ST 100,000 combination beams; operating room; ten cryonic capsules; twelve automeds; four 50-man airlocks; four space docks (for 6,250 cf of subcraft each); space dock (for 1,500,000 cf of subcraft); FSR 80 shaped screen generator (DR 12,000); ten 200-man total life systems; 148 grav units; 30 grav compensators. External: Radiation shielding. Statistics Size: 200'x200'x200' Payload: 15,600 tons Lwt.: 30,000 tons Volume: 4,000,000 cf Maint.: 171 man-hours Price: $1,263,015,000 HT: 8. HPs: 900,000 Body aSpeed: 8,660 aAccel: 50 aDecel: 6 aMR: 1.5 aSR: 7 sAccel: 2.5 G sMR: 2.5 FTL Speed: 5 parsec per day Design Notes Body is 4,000,000 cf, with underbelly skids. Structure is extra-heavy, cheap. Armor is cheap metal. Sealed. Computerized controls with quadruple maneuver controls. 29,109 cf of empty space. Empty weight is 28,800,000 lbs. The vehicle uses the design rules from Vehicles [second edition, third printing, July 2010 errata], VXi and VXii (including the armor volume rule) with the text format from Vehicles Lite. Next Week: A high-efficiency transport at TL15. _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
