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, 2015-08-17
Instellarms Traffic Control/Warning Aerostat v1.0 (GURPS Traveller TL6) Copyright 2015 by Onno Meyer The TCW Aerostat is a flying air and space traffic control system. She mounts a pair of 125-kW radars and a telescope for the identification of orbital targets. The airship has a smooth teardrop shape with four engine pods. Another engine provides electrical power. The crew quarters and workstations are mounted near the keel, from the small cockpit in the bow to the command and communications center in the rear. The TCW has an endurance of five days, or even longer if she just keeps her station near the starport. The engines burn 200 gallons of aviation gas per hour. A full load of fuel and provisions is $11,850. Subassemblies: Body +13, four Pods +2. Powertrain: Four 800-kW aerial propellers; 7,400,000 cf hydrogen lifting gas; five 800-kW supercharged HP gas engines; 1,920-kWs lead-acid battery. Fuel: 24,000 gallons aviation gas (fire on 16). Occ: 7 bridge RCS, 75 bunks. Cargo: 225 cf. Armor F RL B T U Body: 2/3 2/3 2/3 2/3 2/3 Pods: 2/4 2/4 2/4 2/4 2/4 Equipment: Body: Long-range radio with direction finder; very-long-range radio with direction finder; two 500-mile radars, no targeting; meteorology instruments; x250 astronomical telescope; two sets of precision navigation instruments; IFF; autopilot; 75-man environmental controls; 375 man-days of provisions. Statistics Size: 600'x150'x150' Payload: 180,000 lbs. Lwt.: 450,000 lbs. Volume: 10,500,200 cf Maint.: 21 man-hours Price: $18,892,834 HT: 12. HPs: 43,500 Body, 15 each Pod aSpeed: 100 aAccel: 0.4 aDecel: 0.5 aMR: 0.125 aSR: 4 Stall Speed 0. Design Notes Body is 10,500,000 cf, with radical streamlining. Pods are 50 cf each. Structure is superlight, expensive. Body armor is non-rigid, Pod armor is expensive metal. Sealed. Ultralight tanks. Mechanical controls with duplicate maneuver controls. 86,330.46 cf of empty space in the Body, 9.25 cf in each Pod. Empty weight is 270,000 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 steam engine. _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
