[gurps] [VEHICLE] of the week 681 – Hybrid Starcruiser

[Onno Meyer]

  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, 2007-11-11

Hybrid Starcruiser v1.0 (TL8/12)
  Copyright 2007 by Onno Meyer

  Many science fiction backgrounds mix near future technology with a few 
breakthroughs to allow interstellar travel. The craft described here has 
a contragrav unit, a STL engine, and a FTL engine, all violating physics 
as we know it, and an optimistic power cell.
  The Hybrid Starcruiser has an unstreamlined hull, using contragrav and 
a powerful thruster to operate in planetary atmospheres. It combines the 
roles of a battleship with 16 missile tubes and 32 point defense guns, a 
carrier with 16 Hybrid Spacefighters, and a troopship with a reinforced 
Marine company. There are basic survey and research facilities, but the 
cruiser is extremely cramped. 
  In a game, the cruiser could boldy go where no man has gone before, or 
provide a mobile base for scouts in smaller craft. It is clearly a first 
generation design, soon to be replaced by more efficient cruisers.
  A full load of ammunition and provisions is $58,552,000.

Subassemblies: Body +10, 32 full-rotation, pop-up turrets +1. 
Powertrain: TL12 6,000,000-lb. vectored reactionless thruster; TL12 
  30,000-ton hyperdrive; TL12 30,000,000-lb. contragrav generator;
  400,000-kW experimental fusion reactor; 16,200,000,000-kWs 
  rechargeable power cell.
Occ: 96 bridge RCS, 1,000 bunks.   Cargo: 25,600 cf.

Armor         F        RL         B         T         U
Body:      4/2,400   4/1,600   4/1,600   4/1,600   4/2,000
Turrets:   4/1,600   4/1,600   4/1,600   4/1,600

Weaponry
32 25mm Gatlings [Tur1-32:F] (3,000 rounds each) +2.
8 250mm AMRSSM Launchers [Bod:F] (32 missiles each).
2 250mm AMRSSM Launchers [Bod:R] (32 missiles each).
2 250mm AMRSSM Launchers [Bod:L] (32 missiles each).
4 250mm AMRSSM Launchers [Bod:B] (32 missiles each).

Equipment:
  Body: Two extreme range radios with scrambler; two extreme range, 
tight-beam radios with scrambler; extreme range laser communicator; 
four very long range laser communicators; two 10,000-mile multimode 
radars, LPI; two 1,000-mile thermographs; four 1,000x astronomical 
LLTVs; high-resolution planetary survey array; four advanced radiation 
sensors; chemical sensor array; four sets of precision navigation 
instruments; four IFF; four inertial navigation systems; two military 
GPS; 32 HUDWACs with pupil scanner; four advanced radar/laser detectors; 
area jammer, rating 8; deceptive jammer, rating 8; 512 aircraft decoy 
dischargers, chaff; 512 aircraft decoy dischargers, flare; five C6 
hardened macroframes; 96 terminals; ten full fire suppression systems; 
biochemistry lab; physics lab; planetology lab; xenology lab; eight 
complete workshops; ten operating rooms; 100-man conference room; 50-man 
conference room; four 8-man airlocks with armored passage tube; brig, 16 
bunks; 8,000-cf spacedock; 1,000-man full life system; 180,000 man-days 
of provisions. Turrets: Universal mount and full stabilization for 25mm 
Gatling; 5-mile thermograph. External: Radical IR cloaking; radical 
stealth; radiation shielding.

Statistics
Size: 240'x96'x48'   Payload: 1,000 tons     Lwt.: 10,000 tons
Volume: 500,000 cf   Maint.: 135 man-hours   Price: $785,513,780

HT: 7.   HPs: 240,000 Body, 300 each Turret

aSpeed: 600   aAccel: 6   aDecel: 0.5   aMR: 0.125   aSR: 7

sAccel: 0.3   sMR: 0.3   Hyperspeed: 0.6 parsecs per day

Design Notes
  Body is 500,000 cf, with underbelly skids. Turrets are 20 cf. 
Structure is extra-heavy and expensive, with heavy compartmentalization. 
Armor is advanced metal. Sealed. Computerized controls with quadruple 
maneuver controls. There are 5,685.8 cf of empty space. 96,000 rounds of 
25mm APDU and 512 AMRSSMs are stowed in the Body. Empty weight is 
18,000,000 lbs.

Weapon       Weight Volume Cost     Power WPS   VPS     CPS         TL
25mm Gatling   210   4.2    $15,000 8     1      0.0067      $12(1) 8
250mm AMRSSM 4,000  80     $210,000   -   1,000 20      $110,000    8
  Ammo type: (1) APDU.

Weapon       Ammo Malf. Type Damage    SS Acc 1/2D  Max   RoF 
25mm Gatling APDU ver.  cr.  6d*5(3)   20 14  1,400 5,900 80

Weapon       Guid Malf. Type Damage    SS sAccel End      RoF Skill
250mm AMRSSM OH   crit. exp. 6d*67(10) 30 60     16       1   21

  The vehicle uses the design rules from Vehicles [2nd edition, 3rd 
printing, Dec 2004 errata], VXi and VXii (including the armor volume 
rule) with the text format from Vehicles Lite. All components except 
for those listed as TL12 are TL8.


Next Week: A colonizer transport.