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From: Travis Watkins <[email protected]>
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Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2013 13:32:11 
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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
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> 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.
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