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, 2012-10-01
Fast Courier Mk.VI v1.0 (TL13) Copyright 2012 by Onno Meyer The Fast Courier carries a few people and a few boxes of cargo to the stars. Speed is everything, and the sleek little craft can reach 14,300 times lightspeed. The nose of the cylindrical starship holds the cockpit with seats for the pilot and the astrogator. Directly aft of the cockpit is a bunkroom with a tiny galley and sanitary facilities. A crawlspace leads from the bunkroom to the cargo bay, but there is a separate force field airlock for loading and unloading. The engine room takes almost three quarters of the length of the ship. It takes 33 hours to recharge the power cell for a hyperspace entry. Subassemblies: Body +5. Powertrain: Two 180,000-lb. mega reactionless thrusters; 1,800-ton hyperdrive; two 150,000-lb. contragrav generators; two 15,000-kW antimatter reactors; 660,240,000-kWs rechargeable power cell. Occ: 2 bridge RCS, 2 bunks. Cargo: 100 cf. Armor F RL B T U Body: 4/200* 4/200* 4/200* 4/200* 4/200* * Plus DR 2,000 force screen. Equipment: Body: Long-range neutrino communicator; two extreme-range gravity ripple communicators; two 150-mile AESAs; two 150-lightsecond FTL radars; two 150-mile PESAs; 75-mile multiscanner; two x200 astronomical LLTVs; 15-lightsecond FTL scan detector; 15-lightsecond FTL emergence detector; precision navigation instruments; two transponders; four inertial navigation systems; four C8 hardened minicomputers; two terminals; two neural induction fields; compact fire suppression system; two forcelocks; FSR 20 screen generator (DR 2,000); three 4-man total life systems; grav unit; grav compensator. External: Radiation shielding. Statistics Size: 45'x10'x10' Payload: 1.2 tons Lwt.: 30 tons Volume: 3,000 cf Maint.: 12 man-hours Price: $6,213,400 HT: 13. HPs: 2,250 Body aSpeed: 6,000 aAccel: 120 aDecel: 18 aMR: 4.5 aSR: 5 sAccel: 6 G sMR: 6 FTL Speed: 12 parsec per day Design Notes Body is 3,000 cf, with excellent streamlining and underbelly skids. Structure is medium, expensive. Armor is expensive metal. Sealed. Computerized controls with duplicate controls. 69.77 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], VXi and VXii (including the armor volume rule) with the text format from Vehicles Lite. Next Week: A medical courier at TL14. _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
