Thomas wrote:
This would be even more true when the gas that is used in the airships/balloons is also harvested with the crops/lifestock from the trees. In that case, only the hull needs to be manufactured somehow - or, more precise, the lifting body, as perhaps the hull materiel could be natural as well. Oh, and the engine, of course …
I wrote one, but it isn't very Traveller. 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 _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
