Tell more about the story? Alt-tech can be fun to explore.
Mike Sent via BlackBerry by AT&T -----Original Message----- From: Travis Watkins <[email protected]> Sender: [email protected] Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2013 13:32:11 To: The GURPSnet mailing list<[email protected]> Reply-To: The GURPSnet mailing list <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [gurps] [VEHICLE] of the week 993 - Star Liner Mk.V Onno, have you considered a vehicle for something like the Iron age star-ships in The Road Not Taken by Harry Turtledove? Although I am not sure how compatible GURPS is with drives that would work for that scenario(pre-industrial suggests it would need to have very low power requirements) On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 12:12 AM, Onno Meyer <[email protected]> wrote: > 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, 2013-11-04 > > Star Liner Mk.V v1.0 (TL12) > Copyright 2013 by Onno Meyer > > The Star Liner connects the inhabited worlds of the galaxy. Business > travelers and tourists, celebrities and colonists, all can be found on > these glittering starships. > The ship has cabins for 400 first class passengers, 400 second class > passengers, and 200 technical and service crew. Most of the human crew > work on the bridge or in small bars and clubs -- ordinary maintenance > and housekeeping jobs are handled by robots. > Contragrav allows easy planetary landings, and the Mark V has a pair > of shuttles to service other starports in the system. She is capable of > 3 G sublight acceleration and a hyperspeed of 10,700 c. > A load of provisions costs $1,080,000. It takes 26 hours to recharge > the the power cell for one hyperspace entry. > > Subassemblies: Body +11. > Powertrain: Six 10,000,000-lb. super reactionless thrusters; 450,000-ton > hyperdrive; four 20,000,000-lb. contragrav generators; six 800,000-kW > fusion reactors; 162,000,000,000-kWs rechargeable power cell. > Occ: 20 bridge RCS, 600 single-occupancy cabins, 400 single-occupancy > luxury cabins. > Cargo: 45,000 cf. > > Armor F RL B T U > Body: 4/200* 4/200* 4/200* 4/200* 4/200* > * Plus DR 7,500 force screen. > > Equipment: > Body: Extreme-range radio; very-long-range neutrino communicator; two > extreme-range gravity ripple communicators; short-range FTL > communicator; two 3,600-mile radars; two 3,600-lightsecond FTL radars; > two 3,600-mile thermographs; two 3,600-mile radscanners; 100-lightsecond > FTL scan detector; 100-lightsecond FTL emergence detector; two x400 > astronomical LLTVs; two sets of precision navigation instruments; two > transponders; four inertial navigation systems; four C9 hardened > mainframes; 120 terminals; 60 full fire suppression systems; three > complete workshops; three operating rooms; 75 cryonic capsules; six > automeds; two 50-man bars; eight 25-man restaurants; 100-man restaurant; > 150-man bar with 1,000-sf stage; 250-man hall with 1,000-sf stage; ten > forcelocks; 100 vehicle bays (for 250-cf escape pods); space dock (for > 40,000 cf of subcraft); FSR 100 force screen generator (DR 7,500); three > 1,000-man total life systems; 180,000 man-days of provisions; 74 grav > units; 10 grav compensators. External: Radiation shielding. > > Statistics > Size: 240'x240'x60' Payload: 1,250 tons Lwt.: 10,000 tons > Volume: 2,000,000 cf Maint.: 142 man-hours Price: $878,705,000 > > HT: 8. HPs: 300,000 Body > > aSpeed: 4,745 aAccel: 60 aDecel: 4 aMR: 1 aSR: 6 > Stall Speed 0. > > sAccel: 3 G sMR: 3 FTL Speed: 9 parsec per day > > Design Notes > Body is 2,000,000 cf, with very good streamlining, lifting body, and > underbelly skids. Structure is heavy, standard. Armor is standard > composite. Sealed. Computerized controls with duplicate maneuver > controls. 139,073 cf of empty space. Empty weight is 17,500,000 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: Bigger and better. > _______________________________________________ > GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> > http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l > _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
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