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, 2013-10-14
Solar Tug v1.0 (TL9) Copyright 2013 by Onno Meyer This spacecraft was designed for a setting where interplanetary travel is starting to become routine. The solar sail is a slow way to travel in the outer system, where the light pressure drops with the square of the distance, but it requires no reaction mass on long flights. The Solar Tug consists of the sail mechanism with the shroud controls, an instrument package, and a cargo grapple. The payload is towed behind the spacecraft, either in containers or directly in the grapple. Solar tugs are often used to haul metals and other raw materials from asteroid mines and refineries to Earth, and supplies back to the belt. Subassemblies: Body +2. Powertrain: 10 square mile lightsail; 0.5-kW RTG; 250-kWs advanced battery. Armor F RL B T U Body: 2/4 2/4 2/4 2/4 2/4 Equipment: Body: Very-long-range radio; very-long-range, tight-beam radio; x200 astronomical LLTV; precision navigation instruments; transponder; inertial navigation system; two C3 hardened small computers; 5,000-lb. external cradle. Statistics Size: 4'x4'x4' Payload: 2.5 tons Lwt.: 5 tons Volume: 50 cf Maint.: 7 man-hours Price: $2,088,307.5 HT: 7. HPs: 75 Body sAccel: 0.00526 G sMR: 0.00526 Design Notes Body is 50 cf. Structure is light, advanced. Armor is advanced metal. Sealed. 11.925 cf of empty space. Empty weight is 5,000 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 passenger liner. _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
