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, 2015-08-10
Pavabidian Thearch-class Airship v1.0 (GURPS Traveller TL6) Copyright 2015 by Onno Meyer The Ministry of Conformity on Pavabid uses airships to deploy internal security troops across the planet. The 900' long Thearch carries a rifle company reinforced by Attitude Police inquisitors. The rigid airship has a highly streamlined hull, designed on off-world mainframes. The gondola contains the bridge, the wardroom, and the radio room. Crew and troops live in spartan bunkrooms near the keel, even for the officers, to save mass for payload and fuel. The Thearch can sprint 4,000 miles at 100 mph or cruise 7,200 miles at 60 mph. The engines burn 225 gallons of aviation gas per hour. A full load of fuel and provisions is $22,800. Subassemblies: Body +13, Pod #1 +7, six Pods #2-7 +2. Powertrain: Six 750-kW aerial propellers; 11,840,000 cf hydrogen lifting gas; six 750-kW HP gas engines; 7,680-kWs lead-acid battery. Fuel: 27,000 gallons aviation gas (fire on 16). Occ: 4 bridge RCS, 400 bunks. Cargo: 2,025 cf. Armor F RL B T U Body: 2/3 2/3 2/3 2/3 2/3 Pod #1: 2/3 2/3 2/3 2/3 2/3 Pods #2-7: 2/3 2/3 2/3 2/3 2/3 Equipment: Body: 400-man environmental controls; 2,000 man-days of provisions. Pod #1: Very-long-range radio with direction finder; meteorology instruments; two sets of precision navigation instruments; transponder. Statistics Size: 900'x160'x180' Payload: 320,000 lbs. Lwt.: 750,000 lbs. Volume: 18,000,000 cf Maint.: 25 man-hours Price: $26,597,056 HT: 12. HPs: 61,500 Body, 750 Pod #1, 15 each Pod #2-7 aSpeed: 100 aAccel: 0.4 aDecel: 0.5 aMR: 0.125 aSR: 4 Stall Speed 0. Design Notes Body is 17,976,000 cf, with radical streamlining. Pod #1 is 23,700 cf. Pods #2-7 are 50 cf each. Structure is superlight, expensive. Body and Superstructure armor is non-rigid, Pod armor is expensive metal. Sealed. Ultralight tanks. Mechanical controls with duplicate maneuver controls. 951,889 cf of empty space in the Body, 23,177 cf in Pod #1 and 4.325 cf each in Pod #2-7. Empty weight is 430,000 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: A radar airship. _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
