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, 2014-08-11
Hyperdrive Trainer Mk.VII v1.0 (TL14) 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 Mark VII can make more than 7,000 c in hyperspace, 10 G in space, and Mach 6 in an earthlike atmosphere. There are seats for one trainee and one instructor, and a little luggage compartment for ferry flights. The effective range for the Trainer is five or ten lightyears. It takes 100 minutes to recharge the power cell at full thrust, or 65 minutes if coasting. Subassemblies: Body +3, three retractable Wheels +0, two Wings +0. Powertrain: Two 30,000-lb. mega reactionless thrusters; 90-ton hyperdrive; two 20,000-lb. contragrav generators; 9,000-kW total conversion reactor; 32,400,000-kWs rechargeable power cell. Occ: 2 RCS. Cargo: 10 cf. Armor F RL B T U All: 4/100* 4/100* 4/100* 4/100* 4/100* * Plus DR 1,500 force screen. Equipment: Body: Two medium-range laser communicators; two medium-range neutrino communicators; two very-long-range gravity ripple communicators; two 50-mile multimode radars; two 50-lightsecond FTL radars; two 50-mile thermographs; 10-mile multiscanner; two x200 astronomical LLTVs; 10-lightsecond FTL scan detector; flight recorder; two sets of precision navigation instruments; two transponders; two inertial navigation systems; global positioning system; terrain-following radar; two C9 hardened minicomputers; two terminals; two neural induction fields; compact fire suppression system; forcelock; FSR 10 force screen generator (DR 1,500); two 3-man full life systems; two ejection seats; two gravity webs. External: Radiation shielding. Statistics Size: 15'x12'x6' Payload: 600 lbs. Lwt.: 6,000 lbs. Volume: 300 cf Maint.: 14 hours Price: $2,037,500 HT: 14. HPs: 450 Body, 40 each Wheel, 45 each Wing. aSpeed: 5,000 aAccel: 200 aDecel: 28 aMR: 7 aSR: 5 sAccel: 10 G sMR: 10 FTL Speed: 6 parsec per day Design Notes Body is 288 cf, with excellent streamlining. Wheels are 14.4 cf, retract into Body. Wings are 6 cf each. Structure is medium, standard. Variable-sweep wings. Armor is standard metal. Sealed. Computerized controls with duplicate maneuver controls. 14.02 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: 15 G at TL15. _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
