[gurps] [VEHICLE] of the week 703 – IISS Covert Surveillance Microdrone

[Onno Meyer]

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  Onno Meyer, 2008-04-13

IISS Covert Surveillance Microdrone v1.0 (GURPS Traveller TL12)
  Copyright 2008 by Onno Meyer

  The Imperial Interstellar Scout Service uses Surveillance Microdrones 
to prepare first contact missions. In addition to customized biomorphic 
models, camouflaged as animals, the IISS uses generic stealth drones. 
  The drone has a disc shape with a thruster and isotope battery in the 
center and sensors around the rim. The sensor clusters include wideband 
passive EM arrays and microphones. The drone can operate under computer 
or remote control, depending on the local EW capabilities. 

Subassemblies: Body -4. 
Powertrain: 0.25-kW vectored reactionless thruster; 0.25-kW NPU.

Armor    F    RL     B     T     U
Body:   3/5   3/5   3/5   3/5   3/5

Equipment:
  Body: C5 tiny robot brain; basic sensors with spectrum vision, 360° 
vision, super hearing and radscanner; mute basic communicator; inertial 
compass. External: Instant chameleon; stealth and IR cloaking. 

Statistics
Size: 6“x6“x3“    Payload: -          Lwt.: 4 lbs.
Volume: 0.06 cf   Maint.: 127 hours   Price: $24,862.5

HT: 12.   HPs: 1 Body

aSpeed: 85   aAccel: 4   aDecel: 18   aMR: 4.5   aSR: 4

Design Notes
  Body is 0.06 cf. Structure is light and expensive. Armor is metal. 
Sealed. Computerized controls. 0.00625 cf empty space.
  The TL12 vehicle uses the design rules from Robots [Oct 1999 errata] 
and GT with the text format from Vehicles Lite.


Next Week: A cyberpunkish VTOL plane.