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, 2012-10-29
Deep Space Transport Mk.III v1.0 (TL10) Copyright 2012 by Onno Meyer The Deep Space Transports are small interstellar craft, optimized for work in the outer system, the asteroid belts, or near the Trojan points of a gas giant. The Mark III is built for long missions away from ports or supply stations. The starship has a cylindrical hull, 48' long and 16' wide. Her solar panels are 50' by 625' each. They power the sublight thrusters and life support systems, and the remaining power is used to recharge the cells for the next hyperspace jump. The main cylinder is divided into two crew decks, the cargo hold, and the engine room. The upper crew deck holds the control room, two cabins, and an airlock. The lower crew deck contains the hydroponics system and the three remaining cabins. A shaft leads through the cargo hold to the engine deck, so the hold can be decompressed without inconvenience to the crew. Subassemblies: Body +6, two retractable Panels +10. Powertrain: 2,000-lb. vectored reactionless thruster; 100-ton hyperdrive; 943,200,000-kWs rechargeable power cell. Occ: 2 bridge RCS, 5 cabins. Cargo: 4,800 cf. Armor F RL B T U Body: 4/16 4/16 4/16 4/16 4/16 Equipment: Body: Two extreme-range radios; two 300-mile radars; 300-mile radscanner; two x400 astronomical LLTVs; precision navigation instruments; two transponders; three inertial navigation system; two C5 hardened minicomputers; two terminals; compact fire suppression system; 2-man airlock; 5-man total life system. External: Radiation shielding; 62,500 sf solar cells. Statistics Size: 50'x125'x625' Payload: 48.5 tons Lwt.: 100 tons Volume: 10,000 cf Maint.: 14 man-hours Price: $8,888,000 HT: 5. HPs: 450 Body, 1,250 each Panel sAccel: 0.01 G sMR: 0.01 FTL Speed: 0.2 parsec per day Design Notes Body is 10,000 cf. Panels are 31,250 sf each, retract into Body. Structure is super-light, expensive. Armor is expensive metal. Sealed. Computerized controls. 964 cf of empty space. Empty weight is 103,000 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: A TL11 transport. _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
