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, 2012-09-10
Fast Courier Mk.III v1.0 (TL10) Copyright 2012 by Onno Meyer The Fast Courier carries a few people and a few boxes of cargo to the stars. The Mk.III is not designed for planetary landings and she has no shuttle, so she relies on the local infrastructure for orbit to surface transport. The starship is divided into three sections. The cabin in front, with the flight controls, spartan bunks for two crew and four passengers, an airlock, and a few cargo lockers. There is no artificial gravity, and components of the life support system are squeezed into every available nook and cranny. The next section contains the hyperdrive and the power cell. The fusion reactor and the sublight thruster are mounted in the rear. Most crews hate their cramped Mk.IIIs, but the management likes their unquestionable efficiency. It takes 32 hours to recharge the the power cell for one hyperspace entry. Subassemblies: Body +5. Powertrain: 15,000-lb. vectored super reactionless thruster; 750-ton hyperdrive; 10,000-kW fusion reactor; 270,000,000-kWs rechargeable power cell. Occ: 2 bridge RCS, 6 bunks. Cargo: 60 cf. Armor F RL B T U Body: 4/20 4/20 4/20 4/20 4/20 Equipment: Body: Two extreme-range radios; two extreme-range laser communicators; two 100-mile radars; two 100-mile thermographs; 100-mile radscanner; two x200 astronomical LLTVs; two sets of precision navigation instruments; two IFF; five inertial navigation systems; four C5 hardened minicomputers; two terminals; 1-man airlock; two 6-man total life systems. External: Radiation shielding. Statistics Size: 30'x10'x10' Payload: 2,400 lbs. Lwt.: 30 tons Volume: 3,000 cf Maint.: 9 man-hours Price: $3,400,300 HT: 12. HPs: 2,250 Body sAccel: 0.25 G sMR: 0.25 FTL Speed: 5 parsec per day Design Notes Body is 3,000 cf. Structure is medium, expensive. Armor is expensive composite. Sealed. Computerized controls. 78 cf of empty space. Empty weight is 57,600 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: An even faster one at TL11, of course. _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
