[gurps] [VEHICLE] of the week 660 – Sharushid Hypersled Air/Raft

[Zan Lynx]

On Mon, 2007-06-18 at 19:11 +0200, Onno Meyer wrote:
> 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. My site is down for rebuilding, but sooner or 
> later the old stuff should reappear at   omeyer.gmxhome.de
>   Onno Meyer, 2007-06-18
> 
> Sharushid Hypersled Air/Raft v1.0 (GURPS Traveller TL10)
>   Copyright 2007 by Onno Meyer
> 
>   The Sharushid Hypersled combines excellent workmanship and the classic 
> Solomani lines currently popular on some core worlds. This might prove a 
> mistake if the situation on the Rim heats up ...
>   The Air/Raft has two comfortable seats in front and two small, folding
> seats in the rear. On hospitable worlds the roof can be removed for easy 
> access to the rear seats and the luggage. On less friendly worlds or at 
> high altitude, the life support provides oxygen for six hours.
> 
> Subassemblies: Body +3. 
> Powertrain: Two 1,000-lb. vectored reactionless thrusters; two 4,000-lb. 
>   contragrav units; 120-kW NPU; 360,000-kWs rechargeable E power cell.
> Occ: 1 RCS, 1 RS, 2 folding CS.   Cargo: 10 cf.
> 
> Armor    F    RL     B     T     U
> Body:   3/8   3/8   3/8   3/8   3/8
> 
> Equipment:
>   Body: Two medium-range radios; medium-range laser communicator; two 
> 1-mile AESAs; two 1-mile thermographs; 1-mile radscanner; transponder; 
> global positioning system; C4 small, hardened computer; terminal; 4x6 
> man-hour limited life system; two crashwebs. External: Sculpted; 
> detachable hardtop.
> 
> Statistics
> Size: 12'x6'x4'   Payload: 0.5 tons   Lwt.: 1 ton
> Volume: 180 cf    Maint.: 159 hours   Price: $253,380
> 
> HT: 13.   HPs: 150 Body
> 
> aSpeed: 610   aAccel: 20   aDecel: 16   aMR: 4   aSR: 4
> CG Lift 4 Gs.
> 
> Design Notes
>   Finely made. Body is 180 cf, with very good streamlining and 
> underbelly skids. Structure is light and standard. Armor is standard 
> metal. Sealed. Computerized controls. There are 1.1 cf of empty space. 
> Empty weight is 1,000 lbs.
>   The vehicle uses the design rules from Vehicles [2nd edition, 3rd 
> printing, Dec 2004 errata], Traveller, VXi and VXii (the armor volume 
> rule) with the text format from Vehicles Lite.

So the Hyper part of the name is just advertising?  It doesn't appear to
have anything to do with hyperspace.
-- 
Zan Lynx <zlynx at acm.org>