[gurps] [VEHICLE] of the week 679 – Hybrid Spacefighter

[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, 2007-10-28

Hybrid Spacefighter 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 highly streamlined hull contains a cockpit with seats for a pilot 
and a navigator, the sensors and a 25mm cannon in front and the engines 
in the rear. The Hybrid Spacefighter carries four Advanced Medium Range 
Space to Space Missiles on external pylons. It has a rechargeable power 
cell storing 15 MWh. The power is consumed at a rate of 1 MW in n-space, 
0.48 MW in hyperspace and 4.8 MWh for each hyperspace entry.
  Depending on the game, the Hybrid Spacefighter could represent either 
a first generation fighter, without power plant, or a second generation 
fighter, carried on a larger starship for atmospheric strikes.
  A full load of ammunition is $459,200.

Subassemblies: Body +4. 
Powertrain: TL12 18,000-lb. vectored reactionless thruster; TL12 48-ton 
  hyperdrive; TL12 24,000-lb. contragrav generator; 54,000,000-kWs 
  rechargeable power cell.
Occ: 2 RCS.

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

Weaponry
25mm Gatling [Bod:F] (1,600 rounds) +2.

Equipment:
  Body: Full stabilization for 25mm Gatling; two long range radios with 
scrambler; two long range, tight-beam radios with scrambler; long range 
laser communicator; 200-mile multimode radar, LPI; 200-mile thermograph; 
200x astronomical LLTV; flight data recorder; precision navigation 
instruments; two IFF; two inertial navigation systems; terrain-following 
radar; two HUDWACs with pupil scanners; 5-mile laser rangefinder; laser 
spot tracker; two advanced radar/laser detectors; deceptive jammer, 
rating 6; 64 aircraft decoy dischargers, flares; 64 aircraft decoy 
dischargers, chaff; two C4 genius, hardened minicomputers; two 
terminals; compact fire suppression system; 2 man-days limited life 
system; crew escape capsule. External: Radical IR cloaking; radical 
stealth; radiation shielding; four 1,000-lb. hardpoints.

Statistics
Size: 24'x8'x6'   Payload: 3 tons       Lwt.: 12 tons
Volume: 500 cf    Maint.: 6 man-hours   Price: $23,700,080

HT: 11.   HPs: 600 Body

aSpeed: 2,600   aAccel: 15   aDecel: 10   aMR: 2.5   aSR: 4

sAccel: 0.75   sMR: 0.75   Hyperspeed: 0.8 parsecs per day

Design Notes
  Finely made. Body is 500 cf, with underbelly skids and excellent 
streamlining. Structure is medium and advanced. Armor is advanced 
composite. Sealed. Computerized controls with dual maneuver controls. 
There are 31.39 cf of empty space. 1,600 rounds of 25mm APDU are stowed 
in the body. Empty weight is 18,000 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 N/A    N/A    N/A       -   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) 20 60     16       N/A 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 true starfighter.