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On 9/1/14, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: > Send GurpsNet-L mailing list submissions to > [email protected] > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > [email protected] > > You can reach the person managing the list at > [email protected] > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of GurpsNet-L digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. [VEHICLE] of the week 1036 - Biomechanical Airship (Onno Meyer) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Mon, 01 Sep 2014 07:12:44 +0200 > From: Onno Meyer <[email protected]> > Subject: [gurps] [VEHICLE] of the week 1036 - Biomechanical Airship > To: The GURPSnet mailing list <[email protected]> > Cc: [email protected], [email protected] > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed > > 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, 2014-09-01 > > Biomechanical Airship v1.0 (TL10) > Copyright 2014 by Onno Meyer > > The Biomechanical Airship is grown from a small seed pod, with just a > few mechanical implants. That makes her suitable for earthlike colonies > at the end of a long supply chain. > The hull looks a bit like a whale, with two flukes for propulsion and > hydrogen cells all through the body. The crew quarters are in a ventral > blister. The biomech organism has to feed every two days, generally on > hay or similar farm products. Her range is 1,000 miles or thereabouts, > depending on the winds. > The bioconvertor consumes 25,000 lbs. of fodder and 2,500 gallons of > water per day. > > Subassemblies: Body +12, two High-Agility Wings +6. > Powertrain: 2,495-kW ornithopter drivetrain; 2,960,000 cf hydrogen > lifting gas; 2,500-kW herbivore bioconvertor. > Occ: 5 bridge RCS, 5 cabins. Cargo: 325 cf. > > Armor F RL B T U > All: 2/5 2/5 2/5 2/5 2/5 > > Equipment: > Body: 5,000 gallons water; 50,000 lbs. fodder; shape telegraph; ST 300 > winch; 5-man environmental controls. > > Statistics > Size: 600'x100'x100' Payload: 100,000 lbs. Lwt.: 200,000 lbs. > Volume: 3,766,000 cf Maint.: 25 man-hours Price: $28,008,200 > > HT: 12. HPs: 21,000 Body, 750 each Wing > > aSpeed: 35 aAccel: 0.5 aDecel: 10 aMR: 2.5 aSR: 7 > Stall Speed 0. > > Design Notes > Body is 3,750,000 cf, with very good streamlining. Wings are 8,000 cf > each. Structure is super-light, standard, biomechanical. Armor is > flexible. Sealed. 32,275 cf of empty space in the Body, 7,877.5 cf of > empty space in each Wing. Empty weight is 100,000 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: A TL11 science ship. > > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> > http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l > > End of GurpsNet-L Digest, Vol 135, Issue 1 > ****************************************** > _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
