[gurps] [VEHICLE] of the week 719 – Nanofactory Ship

[Onno Meyer]

  This is a weekly posting with GURPS vehicles (and the like) to the 
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  Onno Meyer, 2008-08-04

Nanofactory Ship v1.0 (TL13)
  Copyright 2008 by Onno Meyer

  The Nanofactory Ship carries an advanced nanofac to backwater colony 
worlds. Proximity to the customers makes up for the small scale of the 
operation, or so the theory goes ... 
  The engines and avionics of the standard light freighter are largely 
unchanged, with changes concentrated in the payload area. The boat bay 
holds the manufacturing tank, rated for 8' by 8' by 8' objects up to a 
ton. The cargo hold contains support systems and 50 tons of nano feed 
material. For defense against space pirates, the Nanofactory Ship is 
armed with a quad gatling blaster in a remotely operated turret.   
  It takes 29 hours to recharge the cells for a hyperspace entry and 9 
seconds to recharge a blaster shot.

Subassemblies: Body +7, four retractable Skids +3, full-rotation pop 
  turret +1. 
Powertrain: Two 400,000-lb. reactionless thrusters; 400-ton hyperdrive; 
  two 800,000-lb. contragrav units; 75-kW RTG; 48,000-kW fusion reactor;  
  seven 31,500,000-kWs rechargeable power cells.
Occ: 10 RCS, 10 single-occupancy cabins.   Cargo: 2,900 cf.

Armor       F      RL       B       T       U
Body:     4/200   4/200   4/200   4/200   4/200
Skids:    4/100   4/100   4/100   4/100   4/100
Turret:   4/200   4/200   4/200   4/200

Weaponry
Quad Blaster [Tur:F] (5,976 shots) +2.

Equipment:
  Body: Two extreme range gravity communicators; two 3,600-lightsecond 
FTL radars; two 500-mile PESAs; 500-mile multiscanner; 50-mile 
gravscanner; 400x astronomical LLTV; flight data recorder; two sets of 
precision navigation instruments; two transponders; four inertial 
navigation systems; four C8, hardened microframes; 18 computer 
terminals; full fire suppression system; complete workshop; 2,000-lb. 
industrial nanofac with 500-cf tank; automed; two forcelocks; 
high-security alarm; two 10-man total life systems; grav unit. Turret: 
Full stabilization and universal mount for Quad Blaster; 100-mile PESA.

Statistics
Size: 80'x40'x20'   Payload: 60 tons       Lwt.: 160 tons
Volume: 24,000 cf   Maint.: 15 man-hours   Price: $9,486,000

HT: 12.   HPs: 15,000 Body, 600 each Skid, 120 Turret

aSpeed: 2,450   aAccel: 50   aDecel: 14   aMR: 3.5   aSR: 6

sAccel: 2.5   sMR: 2.5   Hyperspeed: 0.5 parsec per day

Design Notes
  Body is 24,000 cf, with very good streamlining and lifting body. Skids
are 1,200 cf, retract into body. Turret is 17.5 cf, retracts into body. 
Structure is heavy and standard. Armor is expensive metal. Sealed. 
Computerized controls with duplicate maneuver controls. There are 54 cf 
of empty space. Empty weight is 200,000 lbs.

Weapon       Weight Volume Cost    Power  WPS VPS CPS TL
Quad Blaster 200    4      $40,000 51,200  -   -   -  13

Weapon       Ammo Malf. Type Damage SS Acc 1/2D   Max    RoF
Quad Blaster  -   ver.  imp. 6d*40  20 23  12,000 36,000 4

  The vehicle uses the design rules from Vehicles [second edition, third 
printing, Dec 2004 errata], UTT and VXii (the armor volume rule) with 
the text format from Vehicles Lite.


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