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, 2012-08-27
Bulk Transport Mk.VIII v1.0 (TL15) Copyright 2012 by Onno Meyer The Bulk Transport hauls large loads over interstellar distances. She has room for 20,000 tons of cargo, and about 2,500 tons of shuttlecraft or additional RO/RO cargo. The hull is a 200' sphere with sixteen decks. Most of the engines are mounted on deck 8, the hangars and the bridge are on deck 9 and 10, and the crew quarters are on deck 11. The cargo holds are on the decks 2 to 7 and 12 to 15. The Mark VIII is highly automated, with just 20 bridge officers and a few hundred robots, from cargo handlers to maintenance drones. It takes 43 hours to recharge the power cells for one hyperspace entry. Subassemblies: Body +12, six retractable Skids +8. Powertrain: Six 10,000,000-lb. reactionless thrusters; 450,000-ton hyperdrive; four 90,000,000-lb. contragrav generators; two 100,000-kW fusion reactors; six 1,000,000-kW total conversion reactors; two 81,000,000,000-kWs rechargeable power cells. Occ: 20 bridge RCS, 20 luxury cabins. Cargo: 2,000,000 cf. Armor F RL B T U Body: 4/250* 4/250* 4/250* 4/250* 4/250* Skids: 4/75* 4/75* 4/75* 4/75* 4/75* * Plus DR 6,000 force screen. Equipment: Body: Two extreme-range gravity ripple communicators; short-range FTL communicator; two 18,000-mile AESAs; two 18,000-lightsecond FTL radars; two 18,000-mile thermographs; two 18,000-mile multiscanners; four x500 astronomical LLTVs; two 500-lightsecond FTL scan detectors; two 500-lightsecond FTL emergence detectors; two sets of precision navigation instruments; four transponders; six inertial navigation systems; four C12 hardened mainframes; 60 terminals; 20 neural induction fields; 100 full fire suppression systems; two complete workshops; operating room; six cryonic capsules; four automeds; 40-man airlock; four 10-man airlocks; four space docks (for 62,500 cf of subcraft each); FSR 75 shaped screen generator (reduced DR 6,000); five 200-man total life systems; 148 grav units; 30 grav compensators. External: Radiation shielding. Statistics Size: 200'x200'x200' Payload: 22,500 tons Lwt.: 30,000 tons Volume: 4,000,000 cf Maint.: 115 man-hours Price: $574,981,500 HT: 8. HPs: 900,000 Body, 25,000 each Skid aSpeed: 5,475 aAccel: 20 aDecel: 8 aMR: 2 aSR: 7 sAccel: 1 G sMR: 1 FTL Speed: 3 parsec per day Design Notes Body is 4,000,000 cf. Skids are 200,000 cf, retract into Body. Structure is extra-heavy, cheap. Armor is cheap composite. Sealed. Computerized controls with quadruple maneuver controls. 662,746 cf of empty space. Empty weight is 15,000,000 lbs. The vehicle uses the design rules from Vehicles [second edition, third printing, July 2010 errata] and VXii (including the armor volume rule) with the text format from Vehicles Lite. Next Week: The TL16 variant. _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
