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Onno Meyer, 2016-02-29
Corsair Raider v1.0 (TL11)
Copyright 2016 by Onno Meyer
The Raider is an expendable interstellar scout and fighter. She might
be looking for tramp freighters or frontier settlements on her own, but
more often a Corsair Raider is the first sign of a mothership in the
sector.
The starship has seats for the pilot, the chin gunner, and the dorsal
turret gunner. There are three bunks for a second shift, who also serve
as the boarding party. The cabin is very cramped and the cargo lockers
are tiny -- if the pirates strike it rich, the loot gets stowed in the
bunkroom. Some naval analysts believe that this is a deliberate design
choice, a way to make the Corsair Raider crews dependent on the pirate
kingpins and the fences in their hidden bases.
A full load of ammunition and provisions is $27,440. At full sublight
thrust, it takes 12 hours to recharge the power cell for one hyperspace
entry and 0.14 seconds to recharge one cannon shot.
Subassemblies: Body +4, full-rotation Turret +1.
Powertrain: Two 30,000-lb. vectored super reactionless thrusters; 50-ton
hyperdrive; 4,500-kW super MHD fusion reactor; 20,250,000-kWs
rechargeable power cell.
Occ: 2 NCS, 1 NCS (half in Turret), 3 bunks. Cargo: 2.5 cf.
Armor F RL B T U
All: 4/180 4/180 4/180 4/180 4/180
Weaponry
Two 20mm Grav Cannon [Bo:F] (200 rounds each) +2.*
10mm Grav Minigun [Tu:F] (1,500 rounds) +2.
10mm Grav Minigun [Bo:F] (1,500 rounds) +2.
Two 100mm 7-round Launchers [Bo:F] (7 rounds each) +2*
* Each pair linked, another link fires all four.
Equipment:
Body: Cyberslave mount for 10mm Grav Minigun; two very-long-range
radios with scramblers; medium-range neutrino communicator; two 50-mile
AESAs; 50-lightsecond FTL radar; two 50-mile thermographs; 50-mile
multiscanner; 15-lightsecond FTL scan detector; 15-lightsecond FTL
emergence detector; x200 astronomical LLTV; navigation instruments; IFF;
inertial navigation system; two global positioning systems;
terrain-following radar; two HUDWACs; deceptive jammer, level 8; two C6
hardened minicomputers; three terminals; forcelock; 6-man full life
system; 120 man-days of provisions; grav unit; three G-seats. Turret:
Universal mount for 10mm Grav Minigun. External: Basic emission
cloaking; basic stealth; instant chameleon; radiation shielding.
Statistics
Size: 40'x5'x6' Payload: 2,000 lbs. Lwt.: 20,000 lbs.
Volume: 1,000 cf Maint.: 8 man-hours Price: $751,843
HT: 11. HPs: 900 Body, 75 Turret.
aSpeed: 1,860 aAccel: 60 aDecel: 16 aMR: 4 aSR: 4
sAccel: 3 G sMR: 3 FTL Speed: 1 parsec per day
Design Notes
Cheaply made. Body is 980 cf, with very good streamlining, lifting
body, and underbelly skids. Turret is 20 cf. Structure is medium,
standard. Armor is standard laminate. Sealed. Computerized controls.
36.565 cf of empty space. 400 rounds of 20mm APDSHD, 1,500 rounds of
10mm AP, and 14 100mm HEDP rockets are stowed in the Body, 1,500 rounds
of 10mm AP are stowed in the Turret. Empty weight is 18,000 lbs.
Weapon Weight Volume Cost Power WPS VPS CPS TL
10mm Grav Minigun 36 0.72 $43,000 500 0.05 0.00033
$1.2[1] 11
20mm Grav Cannon 170 3.4 $150,000 1,200 0.2 0.002 $48[2] 11
100mm 7-round Launcher 68 1.36 $1,275 - 20 0.4 $280[3] 11
Ammo: [1] AP. [2] APDSHD. [3] HEDP.
Weapon Ammo Malf. Type Damage SS Acc 1/2D Max RoF
10mm Grav Minigun AP ver. cr. 6d*5(2) 20 15 1,900 7,100 100*
20mm Grav Cannon APDSHD ver. cr. 6d*20(5) 20 17 4,950 15,000 20*
100mm Rocket HEDP crit. exp. 6d*31(5)[10d] 20 18 5,000 6,000 7:17
The vehicle uses the design rules from Vehicles [second edition, third
printing, July 2010 errata], VXi, and VXii (including the armor volume
rule) with the text format from Vehicles Lite.
Next Week: A spy ship.
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