[gurps] [VEHICLE] of the week 682 – Hybrid Starship

[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, 2007-11-18

Hybrid Starship 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 Starship transports 3,200 tons of cargo, 1,800 colonists or 
steerage passengers, and 200 crew. It has four main decks, with quarters 
on the upper deck, engines and life support on the lower deck, and cargo 
in between. When the ship sets down on a rough airfield, the shuttle bay 
becomes an access ramp to the main cargo hold. 
  In a game, the design of the Hybrid Starship can be used for a rough 
estimate of the transport costs to a colony world, $200 per person per 
parsec or $100 per ton per parsec. 
  A full load of provisions is $1,800,000.

Subassemblies: Body +10. 
Powertrain: TL12 2,000,000-lb. vectored reactionless thruster; TL12 
  10,000-ton hyperdrive; TL12 30,000,000-lb. contragrav generator; 
  160,000-kW experimental fusion reactor; 3,600,000,000-kWs 
  rechargeable power cell.
Occ: 48 bridge RCS, 100 double-occupancy cabins, 1,800 bunks.
Cargo: 320,000 cf.

Armor     F      RL       B       T       U
Body:   4/300   4/300   4/300   4/300   4/300

Equipment:
  Body: Two extreme range radios; two extreme range, tight-beam radios; 
two very long range laser communicators; two 1,000-mile multimode 
radars; two 200-mile thermographs; four 200x astronomical LLTVs; two 
advanced radiation sensors; chemical sensor array; two flight recorders; 
four sets of precision navigation instruments; four transponders; four 
inertial navigation systems; two military GPS; two advanced radar/laser 
detectors; four C5 hardened mainframes; 48 terminals; 16 full fire 
suppression systems; two complete workshops; ten operating rooms; 
150-man mess; four 24-man airlocks; brig, 8 bunks; 5,000-cf spacedock; 
2,000-man full life system; 300,000 man-days of provisions. External: 
Radiation shielding.

Statistics
Size: 360'x96'x48'     Payload: 3,750 tons    Lwt.: 10,000 tons
Volume: 1,000,000 cf   Maint.: 70 man-hours   Price: $210,074,580

HT: 9.   HPs: 360,000 Body

aSpeed: 600   aAccel: 2   aDecel: 0.5   aMR: 0.125   aSR: 7

sAccel: 0.1   sMR: 0.1   Hyperspeed: 0.2 parsecs per day

Design Notes
  Body is 1,000,000 cf, with underbelly skids and good streamlining. 
Structure is extra-heavy and standard, with heavy compartmentalization. 
Armor is standard metal. Sealed. Computerized controls with quadruple 
maneuver controls. There are 3,034.53 cf of empty space. Empty weight is 
12,500,000 lbs.
  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: The supporting shuttle.