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, 2012-09-24
Fast Courier Mk.V, Bounty Hunter Variant v1.0 (TL12) Copyright 2012 by Onno Meyer The Fast Courier carries a few people and a few boxes of cargo to the stars. This variant of the Mark V has been modified by a gang of bounty hunters -- the ship has long legs, spartan quarters, and a pair of grav gatlings. The starship has an ellipsoidal hull with small fins for aerodynamic stability and a bit of extra lift. Her hull coating is often programmed to show shark teeth around the recessed guns. Inside, the Fast Courier is divided into the cockpit, two bunkrooms, and the engine room. One of the bunkrooms has been turned into a cell with a force field over the door and eyebolts next ot the bunks. It would be a mistake to think of her as a real warship or a patrol craft, but the Mark V is reasonably well suited to her new mission. A full load of APSHD ammo is $48,000. It takes 17 hours to recharge the power cell for a hyperspace entry. Subassemblies: Body +5. Powertrain: Two 150,000-lb. super reactionless thrusters; 1,200-ton hyperdrive; two 120,000-lb. contragrav generators; 30,000-kW antimatter reactor; 432,000,000-kWs rechargeable power cell. Occ: 3 NCS, 3 bunks. Cargo: 50 cf. Armor F RL B T U Body: 4/120* 4/120* 4/120* 4/120* 4/120* * Plus DR 360 force screen. Weaponry Two 10mm Gatling Gravguns [Bod:F] (3,000 rounds each) +2.* * Linked Equipment: Body: Two long-range radios; two long-range neutrino communicators; two extreme-range gravity ripple communicators; two 150-mile AESAs; two 150-lightsecond FTL radars; two 150-mile PESAs; 125-mile multiscanner; two x200 astronomical LLTVs; 30-lightsecond FTL scan detector; 30-lightsecond FTL emergence detector; precision navigation instruments; two IFF; three inertial navigation systems; HUDWAC; three C7 hardened minicomputers; three terminals; compact fire suppression system; two forcelocks; brig (three bunks); high-security alarm; basic VR console; two 6-man total life systems; grav unit; grav compensator. External: Modest shealth (retrofitted); modest emission cloaking (retrofitted); intruder chameleon; radiation shielding; DR 360 force screen. Statistics Size: 36'x12'x8' Payload: 1.2 tons Lwt.: 30 tons Volume: 3,000 cf Maint.: 13 man-hours Price: $7,357,730 HT: 12. HPs: 2,250 Body aSpeed: 2,740 aAccel: 100 aDecel: 16 aMR: 4 aSR: 4 sAccel: 5 G sMR: 5 FTL Speed: 8 parsec per day Design Notes Body is 3,000 cf, with very good streamlining, lifting body, and underbelly skids. Structure is medium, expensive. Armor is expensive metal. Sealed. Computerized controls with duplicate controls. 10.6 cf of empty space. 6,000 rounds of 10mm APSHD are carried in the body. Empty weight is 57,600 lbs. Weapon Weight Volume Cost Power WPS VPS CPS TL 10mm Gatling Gravgun 220 4.4 $84,000 2,000 0.033 0.00033 $8[1] 12 Ammo: [1] APSHD. Weapon Ammo Malf Type Damage SS Acc 1/2D Max RoF 10mm Gatling Gravgun APSHD ver. cr. 6d*12(5) 20 18 8,000 21,000 100* 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: An ordinary parcel carrier at TL13. _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
