[gurps] [VEHICLE] of the week 620 – Artemis-Class 200-ton Safari Ship

[Onno Meyer]

  This is a weekly posting with GURPS vehicles (and the like) to the 
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redistribution of my work, but I would like to know if you put it on 
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  Onno Meyer, 2006-09-11

Artemis-Class 200-ton Safari Ship v1.0 (GT TL12)
  Copyright 2006 by Onno Meyer

  The Artemis-class Safari Ship is less luxurious than the more common 
Animal-class or Leaping Snowcat-class Safari Ships. Instead she mounts 
more powerful engines, larger tanks and and a docking and maintenance 
bay for a variety of ground vehicles.
  The upper deck of the streamlined spaceframe holds the bridge, crew 
quarters, passenger quarters and the main engine room. The lower deck 
holds the ground vehicle dock, most of the hydrogen fuel and the jump 
drives. The bridge and two crew staterooms have a reduced deck height 
to allow for higher vehicles below. Two empty turrets are mounted on 
either side of the bridge. The Artemis can be armed when she ventures 
into insecure frontier areas, but at least one owner has decided to 
mount a giant, telescoping fishing rod instead.
  The usual crew are the captain, a navigator, a sensor operator, two 
engineers, a medic and a steward, with four double staterooms. 
  The listed payload includes 2 stons of weaponry, 10 stons of ground 
vehicles and 20 stons of general supplies. The complement of vehicles 
varies with worlds on the flight plan and the hobbies of the owner. A 
typical loadout would be one Safari ATV, four Safari Buggies and four 
Safari Monocycles for the hunters and two air/rafts and four grav 
platforms for the retainers. 

Subassemblies: VGSL Hull +8, two Turrets +5.
Powertrain: Engineering, 8 Jump Drive, 12 Maneuver. 
Fuel: 60 Jump Fuel Tank. 
Occ: 4 Staterooms, 6 Luxury Staterooms. Cargo: 4 dtons. 

Armor     F       RL      B       T       U
All:    4/100   4/100   4/100   4/100   4/100

Equipment
All: Basic Sound Baffling; Liquid Crystal Skin; Electrified Surface. 
  Hull: Utility; Fuel Processor; Basic Bridge; Alien Environment Suite; 
  10-dton Spacedock; Complete Workshop; Sickbay; Armory. 

Statistics
Size: 180'x60'x30'   Payload: 32 stons   Lwt.: 302.8 stons
Volume: 200 dtons    Maint.: 34 mh/day   Price: MCr50.06

HT: 12.   HPs: 22,500 [Hull] 1,200 [each Turret]

sAccel: 4 Gs/4.4 Gs empty   Jump: 3   aSpeed: 2,330 mph


Next Week: The first ground vehicle, the ATV.