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, 2016-04-18
Escape Pod Mk.III v1.0 (TL10) 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. The Mk.III has improved engines and armor for aerobraking maneuvers at higher speed. A full load of provisions is $300. Subassemblies: Body +3. Powertrain: 600-lb. standard reactionless thruster; 360-kW RTG. Occ: 5 CS. Cargo: 5 cf. Armor F RL B T U Body: 4/100 4/100 4/100 4/100 4/100 Equipment: Body: Very-long-range radio; four x6 LLTVs; 2-mile radscanner; set of navigation instruments; transponder; inertial navigation system; three C4 hardened small computers; compact fire suppression system; 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: 1,200 lbs. Lwt.: 6,000 lbs. Volume: 250 cf Maint.: 49 hours Price: $166,250 HT: 12. HPs: 375. sAccel: 0.1 G sMR: 0.1 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. 8.05 cf of empty space. Empty weight is 4,800 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: The Mark IV. _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
