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, 2014-07-28
Hyperdrive Trainer Mk.V v1.0 (TL12) Copyright 2014 by Onno Meyer Even with the best simulations, there comes a time for pilot trainees to get into a real starship. Experienced pilots need refresher training to maintain their proficiency. Last but not least, many old Hyperdrive Trainers end their career as station hacks on some starport. The Hyperdrive Trainer has a sleek airframe and small delta wings. In addition to aerodynamic control surfaces, the wings mount the secondary sublight thrusters and the contragrav generators. The Mk.V has a tandem cockpit for the trainee and the instructor. The rear seat is raised to extra visibility, and both workstations have identical flight controls. It takes 193 minutes to recharge the power cell at full thrust, or 93 minutes if coasting. Subassemblies: Body +3, three retractable Wheels +0, two Wings +0. Powertrain: 18,000-lb. super reactionless thruster; two 6,000-lb. super reactionless thrusters; 45-ton hyperdrive; two 10,000-lb. contragrav generators; 3,000-kW super MHD fusion reactor; 16,200,000-kWs rechargeable power cell. Occ: 2 RCS. Cargo: 10 cf. Armor F RL B T U Body: 4/100 4/100 4/100 4/100 4/100 Wheels: 3/10 3/10 3/10 3/10 3/10 Wings: 4/100 4/100 4/100 4/100 4/100 Equipment: Body: Two medium-range laser communicators; two very-long-range gravity ripple communicators; two 50-mile multimode radars; two 50-lightsecond FTL radars; two 50-mile thermographs; 10-mile radscanner; two x200 astronomical LLTVs; flight recorder; two sets of precision navigation instruments; two transponders; two inertial navigation systems; two C7 hardened minicomputers; two terminals; two neural induction fields; compact fire suppression system; forcelock; two 3-man full life systems; two ejection seats; two gravity webs. External: Radiation shielding. Statistics Size: 15'x9'x6' Payload: 600 lbs. Lwt.: 6,000 lbs. Volume: 300 cf Maint.: 15 hours Price: $1,701,500 HT: 12. HPs: 450 Body, 40 each Wheel, 45 each Wing. aSpeed: 1,770 aAccel: 100 aDecel: 24 aMR: 6 aSR: 4 sAccel: 5 G sMR: 5 FTL Speed: 3 parsec per day Design Notes Body is 288 cf, with lifting body and very good streamlining. Wheels are 14.4 cf, retract into Body. Wings are 6 cf each. Structure is medium, expensive. Armor is expensive composite. Sealed. Computerized controls with duplicate maneuver controls. 0.026 cf of empty space. Empty weight is 5,400 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: The next one, at TL13. _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
