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, 2015-08-02
Pavabidian Satellite-class Airship v1.0 (GURPS Traveller early TL6) Copyright 2015 by Onno Meyer As more of the new Thearchs become available, the older Satellites are being phased out of Pavabidian service. Seven have been disassembled and stored near the starport for a possible off-world sale, but no buyer has offered more than scrap value for the primitive technology. The airship has a 960' hull and a long, narrow gondola. The bridge is in front, followed by the chart room and a dozen bunkrooms. The payload is carried at the rear end of the gondola, near the center of gravity. The engines burn 72 gallons of aviation gas per hour. A full load of fuel and provisions is $9,456. Subassemblies: Body +12, Pod #1 +7, four Pods #2-5 +1. Powertrain: Four 360-kW aerial propellers; 5,328,000 cf hydrogen lifting gas; four 360-kW HP gas engines; 1,280-kWs lead-acid battery. Fuel: 8,640 gallons aviation gas (fire on 16). Occ: 4 bridge NCS, 200 bunks. Cargo: 142 cf. Armor F RL B T U Body: 2/2 2/2 2/2 2/2 2/2 Pod #1: 2/2 2/2 2/2 2/2 2/2 Pods #2-5: 2/4 2/4 2/4 2/4 2/4 Weaponry 9,000-lb. Weapon Bay. Equipment: Pod #1: Long-range radio; meteorology instruments; two sets of navigation instruments; 1,000 man-days of provisions. Statistics Size: 960'x100'x120' Payload: 120,000 lbs. Lwt.: 330,000 lbs. Volume: 7,224,000 cf Maint.: 17 man-hours Price: $11,920,176 HT: 12. HPs: 33,000 Body, 750 Pod #1, 8 each Pod #2-5 aSpeed: 50 aAccel: 0.2 aDecel: 0.5 aMR: 0.125 aSR: 4 Stall Speed 0. Design Notes Body is 7,200,000 cf, with excellent streamlining. Pod #1 is 23,906 cf. Pods #2-5 are 24 cf each. Structure is superlight, expensive. Body and Pod #1 armor is non-rigid, Pod #2-5 armor is expensive metal. Sealed. Ultralight tanks. Mechanical controls with duplicate maneuver controls. 3,509.33 cf of empty space in the Body, 2,876.04 cf in Pod #1 and 1.85 cf each in Pod #2-5. Empty weight is 210,000 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. The Traveller rules affect the background and design choices, but not the technology of this vehicle. Next Week: Bigger and faster. _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
