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, 2016-04-04
Escape Pod Mk.I v1.0 (TL9) Copyright 2016 by Onno Meyer The Escape Pod is used to evacuate orbital stations or spacecraft near inhabited worlds. It has room for five persons, air/water recyclers, and food for ten days. Usually the computers select a drop zone sooner than that -- the Escape Pod is very cramped. It has reaction mass for 18 kps of delta-V. The engine uses 6 gallons of water per hour. A full load of provisions is $300. Subassemblies: Body +3. Powertrain: 300-lb. fusion rocket; 52-kW NPU. Fuel: 60 gallons water. Occ: 5 CS. Cargo: 5 cf. Armor F RL B T U Body: 4/100 4/25 4/25 4/25 4/100 Equipment: Body: Very-long-range radio; x10 LLTV; set of navigation instruments; transponder; inertial navigation system; two C3 hardened small computers; 10,000-lb. vehicular parachute; 5-man full life system; 50 man-days of provisions. External: Radiation shielding; 125 sf solar cells. Statistics Size: 10'x6'x5' Payload: 1,710 lbs. Lwt.: 6,000 lbs. Volume: 250 cf Maint.: 51 hours Price: $154,100 HT: 12. HPs: 375. sAccel: 0.05 G sMR: 0.05 delta-V: 11.39 mps As Glider: aSpeed: 380 aAccel: 0 aDecel: 0.5 aMR: 0.125 aSR: 3 Stall Speed: 135 Glide Ratio: 8:1 Design Notes Body is 250 cf, with lifting body, underbelly skids, and very good streamlining. Structure is medium, expensive. Armor is expensive composite. Sealed. 3.41 cf of empty space. Empty weight is 4,290 lbs. 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: Mark II with 'magic' sublight thrusters. _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
