[gurps] Vehicle outline: TL13 Colonization Support/Disaster ReliefNano-Factory ship (version 2.0)

[Troy Guffey]

Note: this is not really organized in a formal Vehicles(3e) sense.

This ship is designed for an expanding civilization that is colonizing new 
worlds. It also doubles for worlds that have had disasters that have had 
destroyed infra-structure. The ship is armed and armored fairly heavily for 
a non-combat ship because in any such situation the Navy might need to go 
after a greater threat, leaving them to deal with the equivalent of pirates 
in TL7 speedboats. A small "security" force is usually carried for this 
purpose.

The Forges will usually load up on rare-element "additives" for travel out 
to their assignment. They will obtain common elements (such as carbon, 
silicon, iron, aluminum) on-site.

The setting includes both Warp Drive for "local" travel, and Jump-drive 
wormholes which connect areas that are widely separated.

The Zero-Point Energy cosmic power-plant is a super-science invention.. If a 
GM doesn't want to use these in his campaign, this class would use fusion 
generators because those could be locally refueled, rather than having to be 
tanked up on manufactured anti-matter.

One other key feature is the very large spinal gravity mount. This allows 
the ship to work as "asteroid tug" and "super-crane". It also has the extra 
hardware to work as a gravity beam weapon using the same power. If the ship 
hits you with this, you KNOW you've "been kissed". The energy phasing force 
lenses make this more versatile.

The 300lb./cf cargo feature is because the ship will not be carrying 
manufactured cargo, but rare (and probably heavy) elements in dense form 
instead. (The figure is derived from the Armor Volume rule Vx2 p5).

The cabins are also life-boats.

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Hephaestus' Forge Nano-Factory ship class:
TL13
Heavy body structure, underbelly skid, living-metal, self-sealing, total 
compartmentalization; Very Good streamlining, lifting body
Improved emission cloak, basic stealth, basic chameleon

12 pop turrets: 4 forward rainbow laser ring (Top,Under,Right,Left); 4 rear 
rainbow laser ring (Top,Under, Right,Left); 2 grav(combo beam, gravy) each 
Right, Left
Spinal Grav mount capable of lifting 16xEwt (usable as combo-beam, 
grav-beam)

Power: Cosmic Energy Generator, ruggedized with additional 200DR advanced 
laminate. 3 generators, each 2/3 necessary power

Motive: Grav Drive, non-limited (planetary surface to space) vectored-thrust 
(includes contra-grav), sAccel=16g (w/ 300lb/cf cargo load); Warp-drive, 
Jump-drive

Armor: DR 512 standard laminate all over, thermal-superconducting, PF 100k 
radiation shielding
FF grid 4096 DR, engery phasing surface,variable, no overload
PD 8 generator, shaped (extreme streamlining, lifting-body)

Total life-support 256 people
Macroframe computer; neural-net, high-capacity, hardened, sentient. Backup 
system of 8 distributed mainframes, neural-net, high-capacity, hardened, 
sentient.
Force/membrane airlocks 2 8-person, 8 2-person
8 extreme-range comms; 1 gravity-ripple, 4 neutrino, 3 radio (gravity-ripple 
and 1 radio have sensitive option)
12 long-range comm, radio
2 very long range multi-mode radar(front), 1 ladar(front)
2 very long range PESA(front), 5 medium range PESA(top,under, left, right, 
rear)
1 extreme range radscanner
Gravscanner, extreme range  (to detect gravity-manipulation sources)
Deceptive Jammer, rating 8
Repair cyberswarm for each major systems, shared swarm for minor systems
7 Navigation system, precision (with included 1x hyperspectral LLTVs 
distributed around ship)
7 Inertial navigation systems
IFF
Full fire-supression systems
Artificial gravity units for manned area, with grav-compensators for all 
areas


Ship Bridge with roomy crew stations for captain, pilot, engineer, comm, 
sensor-op, tactical/gunner. Crew stations have g-seats, crashweb, gravweb, 
physical terminal, socket neural interface (with interface lock). (combine 
sensor and gunner to tactical?)

Operations CIC, with roomy crew stations for 10 comm staff, and 2 
supervisors. Crew stations have g-seats, crashweb, gravweb, physical 
terminals, socket neural interface (with interface lock).

32 ejectable standard cabins: Each with NPU, reactionless thruster units, 
total life-support for 4 people, including shower and toilet; PF 100k 
radiation-shielding; PD 6 deflector generator, shaped (lifting body, extreme 
streamlining); DR256 advanced laminate; minicomputer, terminal, 2 socket 
neural interface; built-in "desktop"(1cf tank) nano-fac; 5 short range 
LLTV(T,U,R,L,B), 1 long range PESA (Front); 3 long range comms (1 radio, 1 
grav-ripple, 1 neutrino)(comms only work when cabin is ejected); 1 person 
force/membrane-lock, with decontamination shower. Paramedic swarm, repair 
swarm; 4 survival cocoons. sAccel=4g

1,000,000 cf cargo bay

Reason for the Season:
16 chrysallis machines: 2 elephant, 2 cow, 12 human
512x512x512 main nano-fac tank (big enough to build an /Arleigh Burke/-class 
DDG in the tank)

Carried sub-craft:

Cargo shuttle (10,000 cf payload) in vehicle bay. Heavy body structure, 
underbelly skid, living-metal, self-sealing, VeryGood streamlining, 
lifting-body. Microframe, high-capacity. (Cx=10, LAI) DR256 advanced 
laminate; PD 8 deflector generator, shaped(radical, optional lifting-body). 
FF grid 4096 DR, variable, no overload. Grav-drive: sAcel=8g with 30lb./cf 
cargo

4 SAI/unmanned "parasite" fighters: x-heavy structure, responsive, 
self-sealing, living-metal, radical streamlining. Microframe, high-capacity, 
sentient. (Cx=10, IQ-15, DX-13). Grav-drive. 5 very long range comms (1 
gravity-ripple, 1 radio, 3 neutrino) Weapons: Xaser, pulsars, 120mm very 
long barrell grav-cannon. (6d*126 KE), 3 pop-turret (T,L,R)(120degree ring) 
rainbow lasers for CIWS. DR1024 advanced laminate; PD 8 deflector generator, 
shaped(radical, optional lifting-body), reflector, stealth; FF 
DR8192,variable, no overload. Radical emission cloaking, radical stealth, 
intruder chameleon. sAccel=128g
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