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, 2012-12-10
Deep Space Transport Mk.IX v1.0 (TL16) 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 IX is used to service satellites, or to bring them back for repair. The Transport is a flat cylinder, 36' wide and 10' high. The sublight thrusters are mounted in four articulated arms, along with tractor beam emitters and mechanical manipulators. The top deck is a work area where satellites can land, and where they can be serviced under a force field dome. A lift leads down to the main deck, which contains a hangar, the cargo holds, workshops, and the crew area. The starship has two cabins, a small bridge, and an even smaller galley. It takes 43 hours to recharge the power cell for one hyperspace entry. Subassemblies: Body +6, four Arms +2. Powertrain: Four 12,500-lb. vectored super reactionless thrusters; 1,200-ton hyperdrive; two 10,000-kW total conversion reactors; 432,000,000-kWs rechargeable power cell. Occ: 2 bridge NCS, 2 cabins. Cargo: 3,000 cf. Armor F RL B T U Body: 4/80* 4/80* 4/80* 4/80* 4/80* Arms: 4/80* 4/80* 4/80* 4/80* 4/80* * Plus DR 3,750 force screen. Equipment: Body: Two extreme-range gravity ripple communicators; two 300-mile AESAs; two 300-lightsecond FTL radars; 300-mile multiscanner; two x500 astronomical LLTVs; 30-lightsecond FTL scan detector; 30-lightsecond FTL emergence detector; two sets of precision navigation instruments; two transponders; two inertial navigation systems; four C11 hardened minicomputers; two terminals; two neural induction fields; compact fire suppression system; two complete workshops; two forcelocks; space dock (for 1,000 cf of subcraft); FSR 15 impermeable force screen (DR 3,750); three 4-man total life systems; grav unit. Arms: ST 1,500 cheap, extendable arm motors; ST 500 combination beams. External: Radiation shielding; 1,000 sf flight deck. Statistics Size: 36'x36'x12' Payload: 40 tons Lwt.: 100 tons Volume: 10,000 cf Maint.: 9 man-hours Price: $3,441,450 HT: 10. HPs: 4,500 Body, 450 each Arm sAccel: 0.25 G sMR: 0.25 FTL Speed: 2.4 parsec per day Design Notes Body is 9,600 cf. Arms are 100 cf each. Structure is medium, standard. Armor is standard composite. Sealed. Computerized controls with duplicate maneuver controls. 19.075 cf of empty space. Empty weight is 120,000 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 little commo station. _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
