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, 2014-08-25
Hyperdrive Trainer Mk.IX v1.0 (TL16) 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 Mk.IX is a featureless ellipsoid with small stabilizer fins. The nanometal hull can flow apart to form doors or maintenance hatches when required. The cockpit has two seats for the trainee and the instructor. It takes 132 minutes to recharge the power cell at full thrust, or 80 minutes if coasting. Subassemblies: Body +3. Powertrain: Three 30,000-lb. mega reactionless thrusters; 150-ton hyperdrive; two 20,000-lb. contragrav generators; two 6,000-kW total conversion reactors; 54,000,000-kWs rechargeable power cell. Occ: 2 RCS. Cargo: 10 cf. Armor F RL B T U Body: 4/200* 4/200* 4/200* 4/200* 4/200* * Plus DR 2,500 force screen. Equipment: Body: Two medium-range neutrino communicators; two very-long-range gravity ripple communicators; two 100-mile AESAs; two 100-lightsecond FTL radars; two 100-mile thermographs; 100-mile multiscanner; two x200 astronomical LLTVs; 15-lightsecond FTL scan detector; 15-lightsecond hyperspace emergence detector; flight recorder; two sets of precision navigation instruments; two transponders; two inertial navigation systems; two C11 hardened minicomputers; two terminals; two neural induction fields; compact fire suppression system; forcelock; FSR 10 simple shaped force screen generator (DR 2,500); two 3-man total life systems; two ejection seats; two gravity webs. External: Radiation shielding. Statistics Size: 12'x8'x6' Payload: 600 lbs. Lwt.: 6,000 lbs. Volume: 300 cf Maint.: - Price: $1,895,700 HT: 16. HPs: 1,800 Body. aSpeed: 4,745 aAccel: 300 aDecel: 28 aMR: 7 aSR: 3 sAccel: 15 G sMR: 15 FTL Speed: 10 parsec per day Design Notes Body is 300 cf, with underbelly skids, lifting body, and very good streamlining. Structure is extra-heavy, standard, living metal. Armor is collapsed matter. Sealed. Computerized controls with duplicate maneuver controls. 1.75 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], VXi, and VXii (including the armor volume rule) with the text format from Vehicles Lite. Next Week: A biomech airship. _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
