[gurps] [VEHICLE] of the week 659 – Modified SkyFlash Grav Speeder

[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 
a website or the like. My site is down for rebuilding, but sooner or 
later the old stuff should reappear at   omeyer.gmxhome.de
  Onno Meyer, 2007-06-11

Modified SkyFlash Grav Speeder v1.0 (GURPS Traveller late TL9)
  Copyright 2007 by Onno Meyer

  An aspiring crime lord on the rugged frontier worlds of the Spinward 
Marches needs more than just a nasty smile. This modified grav speeder 
could do the job ...
  The speeder has two concealed weapons, a 9mm caseless minigun in the 
left door and a seven-shot RPG launcher under the nose. A mil-spec IFF 
and a programmable license plate allow bribed or just cowardly cops to 
look the other way, and the radscanner warns of active sensors. Other 
than that, the SkyFlash looks almost normal. 
  A full load of ammunition is $1,880.

Subassemblies: Body +3. 
Powertrain: Two 1,200-lb. vectored reactionless thrusters; two 6,000-lb. 
  contragrav units; 145-kW RTG; 270,000-kWs rechargeable E power cell.
Occ: 2 RCS, 2 RS.

Armor    F      RL     B      T      U
Body:   3/10   3/10   3/10   3/10   3/10

Weaponry
9mmCL Minigun [Bod:L] (1,000 rounds) +0.
80mm 7-Round Launcher [Bod:F] (7 rounds) +0.

Equipment:
  Body: Door mount for 9mmCL Minigun; two long-range radios; 5x LLTV; 
16-mile radar, no targeting; 1-mile radscanner; IFF; global positioning 
system; two C3 small computers; terminal; mutable license plates; 4-man
NBC kit. 

Statistics
Size: 12'x6'x5'   Payload: 0.45 tons   Lwt.: 2 tons
Volume: 250 cf    Maint.: 67 hours   Price: $88,712

HT: 12.   HPs: 375 Body

aSpeed: 600   aAccel: 12   aDecel: 14   aMR: 3.5   aSR: 3
CG Lift 3 Gs.

Design Notes
  Body is 250 cf, with underbelly skids, very good streamlining and 
lifting body. Structure is medium and cheap. Armor is cheap composite. 
Sealed. Computerized controls. There are 4.34 cf of empty space. Empty 
weight is 3,100 lbs. 1,000 rounds of 9mm APS are stored in the body.

Weapon             Weight Volume Cost     Power WPS   VPS     CPS     TL
9mmCL Minigun      27     0.54   $3,000   0.91  0.046 0.00031 $0.18(1) 9
80mm 7-Rd Launcher 51     1.02   $1,912.5  -    10    0.2     $140     9
  Ammo type: (1) Solid bullets; also uses APS (x5 cost, x0.67 weight)

Weapon             Ammo  Malf. Type Damage    SS Acc 1/2D  Max   RoF 
9mmCL Minigun      Solid v(c)  cr.  8d        20 13    840 4,300 100*
                   APS   v(c)  cr.  10d(2)    20 13  1,300 6,500 100*
80mm 7-Rd Launcher HEAT  crit. exp. 6d*25(10) 20 16  2,000 2,880 7:3

  The late TL9 vehicle uses the design rules from Vehicles [2nd edition, 
3rd printing, Dec 2004 errata], Traveller, T:S, VXi and VXii (the armor 
volume rule) with the text format from Vehicles Lite.


Next Week: A more peaceful speeder.