[gurps] [VEHICLE] of the week 613 – Six Eyes Nest Warbot

[Onno Meyer]

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  Onno Meyer, 2006-07-24

Six Eyes Nest Warbot v1.0 (GURPS Traveller TL12-13)
  Copyright 2006 by Onno Meyer

  The Hive Federation uses warbots to protect the lives of the Ithklur 
Marines and Hiver Navy crews. The Six Eyes Nest is at the cutting edge 
of robot development. 
  This experimental warbot has advanced stealth and armor and the latest 
robot brain. It is smart enough to make even the Hivers nervous - in the 
Imperium, the possession would be a capital crime. The sensor arrays and 
weapons are more normal, with a fusion gun in the body and a loflar ATGM 
and a small recon drone in an underside bay. Like most Hiver robots, the 
warbot has a self-destruct charge to prevent any tampering with the 
electronics.
  The listed price is used for only maintenance calculations. It would 
equal 1,394,202 Imperial Credits or 92,947 Hiver biyzihn if the warbot 
ever became freely available. 
  The robot can recharge one fusion shot every 17 minutes at top speed.

Subassemblies: Body +0, six Arms -2. 
Powertrain: TL13 600-lb. vectored mega reactionless thruster; TL12 
  3,000-lb. contragrav unit; TL12 55-kW NPU, two TL13 630,000-kWs 
  rE power cells.

Armor      F        RL         B         T         U
Body:   4/600 L   4/600 L   4/600 L   4/600 L   4/600 L
Arms:   4/600 L   4/600 L   4/600 L   4/600 L   4/600 L

Weaponry
Fusion Gun [Bod:F] (98 shots) +2.
20-lb. Weapon Bay (Bod:U)

Equipment:
  Body: TL12 full stabilization for Fusion Gun; TL12 basic robot 
communicator; TL12 medium radio with scrambler; TL12 medium laser 
communicator; TL12 short-range meson communicator; TL12 5-mile 
radscanner; TL12 level-16 surveillance sound detector; TL12 chemical 
sensor array; TL12 IFF; TL12 inertial navigation system; TL13 C9 genius, 
hardened, sentient robot brain; TL12 100mm small self-destruct (6d*31). 
Arms: TL12 5-mile PESA; TL12 5-mile LPI AESA; TL12 ST-60 flexible arm 
motor. External: TL13 radical stealth; TL13 radical emission cloaking; 
TL12 instant chameleon; TL12 psi-shielding. 

Statistics
Size: 9'x9'x3'   Payload: 20 lbs.   Lwt.: 600 lbs.
Volume: 6.4 cf   Maint.: 21 hours   Price: $870,832

HT: 12.   HPs: 48 Body, 24 each Arm

aSpeed: 335   aAccel: 20   aDecel: 28   aMR: 7   aSR: 3
CG lift 5 Gs.

Design Notes
  Body is 4 cf. Arms are 0.4 cf each. Structure is TL12, robotic, heavy 
and advanced. Armor is TL13 advanced laminate. TL12 self-sealing hull. 
0.355 cf of empty space in the body, 0.1125 cf of empty space in each 
arm. Empty weight is 580 lbs.

Weapon     Weight Volume Cost    Power  WPS VPS CPS TL
Fusion Gun 22     0.44   $99,000 12,800  -   -   -  12

Weapon     Ammo Malf. Type Damage SS Acc 1/2D  Max   RoF 
Fusion Gun  -   ver.  exp. 6d*40  17 18  1,600 4,800 1

  The vehicle uses the design rules from Vehicles [2nd edition, third 
printing, Dec 2004 errata], Traveller, Robots and VXii (including the 
armor volume rule), with the text format from Vehicles Lite. The 
discount for Hiver robot brains from T:ARiii is not applied since the 
robot has a TL13 brain.

  Body ST is 96, arm ST is 60, DX is 12, IQ is 14 and HT is 12/48. 

  Typical initial software package: C2 Brawling-12 [1]; C1 Camouflage-13 
[0.5]; C1 Datalink; C3 Electronics Operation/TL12 (Communications)-16 
[1.5]; C3 Electronics Operation/TL12 (Sensors)-16 [1.5]; C3 Forward 
Observer/TL12-16 [1.5]; C3 Free Fall-12 [2]; C4 Gunner/TL12 (Missile 
Launcher)-15 [4]; C4 Gunner/TL12 (Beam Weapons)-15 [4]; C3 Guns/TL12 
(Pistol)-14 [2]; C6 Piloting/TL12 (Contragravity)-15 [16]; C3 Stealth-13 
[2]; C4 Tactics-16 [4]; C5 Targeting +6; C3 Transmission Profiling.


Next Week: A TL10 G-Carrier.