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, 2012-09-03
Bulk Transport Mk.IX v1.0 (TL16) Copyright 2012 by Onno Meyer The Bulk Transport hauls large loads over interstellar distances. The Mark IX has a freight teleporter for short turnaround times and a large hyperdrive for short flight times. The starship has a spherical hull, with bridge and crew cabins on top and engines on the lower decks. The cargo bays and four shuttle hangars are mounted in between. The ship is optimized for bulk cargo, anything that fits onto the 21' by 21' teleport platform. The cargo hatches are relatively small and inconveniently placed. It takes 20 hours to recharge the power cells for one hyperspace entry. Subassemblies: Body +12. Powertrain: Four 30,000,000-lb. super reactionless thrusters; 1,200,000-ton hyperdrive; four 120,000,000-lb. contragrav generators; two 100,000-kW fusion reactors; four 4,500,000-kW total conversion reactors; four 108,000,000,000-kWs rechargeable power cells. Occ: 20 bridge RCS, 100 luxury cabins. Cargo: 1,500,000 cf. Armor F RL B T U Body: 4/320* 4/320* 4/320* 4/320* 4/320* * Plus DR 20,000 force screen. Equipment: Body: Four 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 C13 hardened mainframes; 120 terminals; 20 neural induction fields; 100 full fire suppression systems; four complete workshops; two ST 30,000 combination beams; two operating rooms; twelve cryonic capsules; four automeds; five 16-man airlocks; 60-hex teleport projector; 1-hex teleport projector; four space docks (for 15,000 cf of subcraft each); FSR 80 shaped screen generator (DR 20,000); ten 100-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.: 201 man-hours Price: $1,749,988,000 HT: 8. HPs: 900,000 Body aSpeed: 7,745 aAccel: 40 aDecel: 10 aMR: 2.5 aSR: 7 sAccel: 2 G sMR: 2 FTL Speed: 8 parsec per day Design Notes Body is 4,000,000 cf, with underbelly skids. Structure is extra-heavy, standard. Armor is standard metal. Sealed. Computerized controls with quadruple maneuver controls. 1,243,794 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 little courier ship. _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
