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, 2012-10-15
Fast Courier Mk.VIII v1.0 (TL15) Copyright 2012 by Onno Meyer The Fast Courier carries a few people and a few boxes of cargo to the stars. She has two crew -- pilot and astrogator -- and perhaps room for one or two passengers, but usually she just carries urgent packages. The ship has a saucer shape with a bubble canopy over the cockpit. A short ladder leads down to a corridor, which is lined with bunks on one side and cargo lockers on the other side. The corridor, barely 3 meters long, leads to the forward hatch with the forcelock. The engine room is a horseshoe wrapped around the crew section. It takes 17 hours to recharge the power cell for a hyperspace entry. Subassemblies: Body +5. Powertrain: Two 300,000-lb. mega reactionless thrusters; 2,250-ton hyperdrive; two 150,000-lb. contragrav generators; two 25,000-kW total conversion reactors; 810,000,000-kWs rechargeable power cell. Occ: 2 bridge NCS, 2 bunks. Cargo: 100 cf. Armor F RL B T U Body: 4/160* 4/160* 4/160* 4/160* 4/160* * Plus DR 4,000 force screen. Equipment: Body: Long-range neutrino communicator; two extreme-range gravity ripple communicators; two 300-mile AESAs; two 300-lightsecond FTL radars; two 300-mile PESAs; 75-mile multiscanner; two x200 astronomical LLTVs; 30-lightsecond FTL scan detector; 30-lightsecond FTL emergence detector; precision navigation instruments; two transponders; four inertial navigation systems; four C10 hardened minicomputers; two terminals; two neural induction fields; compact fire suppression system; forcelock; FSR 20 shaped screen generator (DR 4,000); three 4-man total life systems; grav unit; grav compensator. External: Radiation shielding. Statistics Size: 30'x30'x15' Payload: 1.2 tons Lwt.: 30 tons Volume: 3,000 cf Maint.: 14 man-hours Price: $8,561,900 HT: 13. HPs: 2,250 Body aSpeed: 5,475 aAccel: 200 aDecel: 22 aMR: 5.5 aSR: 5 sAccel: 10 G sMR: 10 FTL Speed: 15 parsec per day Design Notes Body is 3,000 cf, with very good streamlining and underbelly skids. Structure is medium, advanced. Armor is advanced metal. Sealed. Computerized controls with duplicate controls. 26.45 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 really fast one at TL16. _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
