[gurps] [VEHICLE] of the week 678 – Hybrid Scoutship

[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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later the old stuff should reappear at   omeyer.gmxhome.de
  Onno Meyer, 2007-10-21

Hybrid Scoutship 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 storage cell.
  The streamlined spaceframe of the Hybrid Scoutship is divided into the 
cockpit with four workstations, a cabin with two bunks, a cargo hold and 
airlock and the engine room with a fission reactor. The typical crew are 
a pilot, a navigator, an engineer and a mission specialist, but the life 
support could handle up to six scouts. The Scoutship is capable of both 
orbital surveys and surface landings on moons or earthlike worlds.
  A full load of provisions is $4,800.

Subassemblies: Body +5. 
Powertrain: TL12 20,000-lb. vectored reactionless thruster; TL12 100-ton 
  hyperdrive; TL12 60,000-lb. contragrav generator; 1,250-kW fission 
  reactor; 36,000,000-kWs rechargeable power cell.
Occ: 4 RCS, 2 bunks.   Cargo: 80 cf

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

Equipment:
  Body: Two long range radios; long range laser communicator; 250-mile 
multimode radar; 100-mile thermograph; 200x astronomical LLTV; advanced 
radiation sensor; chemical sensor array; medium-resolution planetary 
survey array; two flight data recorders; precision navigation 
instruments; two transponders; two inertial navigation systems; two 
military GPS; advanced radar/laser detector; two C3 hardened 
minicomputers; four terminals; compact fire suppression system; 2-man 
airlock; 6-man full life system; 800 man-days of provisions. External: 
Radiation shielding.

Statistics
Size: 36'x12'x8'   Payload: 2 tons        Lwt.: 20 tons
Volume: 2,000 cf   Maint.: 10 man-hours   Price: $4,389,200

HT: 9.   HPs: 750 Body

aSpeed: 865   aAccel: 10   aDecel: 8   aMR: 2   aSR: 4

sAccel: 0.5   sMR: 0.5   Hyperspeed: 1 parsec per day

Design Notes
  Body is 2,000 cf, with underbelly skids, very good streamlining and a 
lifting body. Structure is light, advanced. Armor is advanced composite. 
Sealed. Computerized controls with quadruple maneuver controls. There 
are 23.8 cf of empty space. Empty weight is 36,000 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: A little FTL-capable fighter.