[gurps] [VEHICLE] of the week 696 ? Covert System Defense Satellite

[Eric Funk]

> Covert System Defense Satellite v1.0 (GURPS Traveller TL10)
>  Copyright 2008 by Onno Meyer

>  The CSDS is a low-cost alternative to a crewed System Defense Boat or
> starfighter. Powered down, the satellite can remain in orbit for a
> long time. Remote control from a surface base provides fire control
> data and launch orders, thereby avoiding controversy about armed
>  robots. The Covert System Defense Satellite has an extra-heavy
> planetoid hull with total compartmentalization. The exact
> distribution of armor varies from satellite to satellite. The payload
> are thirty 500mm missiles.

What does it run off of, then? Some rE celss below the visibility of the 
design system?


> Subassemblies: Planetoid Hull +6.
> Powertrain: 1 Maneuver.
> Occ: (only in Cockpit)
>
> Armor     F       RL      B       T       U
> All:    4/793   4/821   4/805   4/832   4/791
>
> Weaponry
>  3x500mm Missile Racks [Hull:F].
>
> Equipment
>  Hull: Cockpit.

So this has a cockpit that two people can actually sit in?

Is there a point to making it Light or Compact?


> Statistics
> Size: 25'x20'x10'   Payload: 32        Lwt.: 678 stons
> Volume: 10 dtons    Maint.: 8 mh/day   Price: MCr2.86
>
> HT: 9.   HPs: 12,000 [Hull]
>
> sAccel: 0.06 Gs


TL11 Solar cells can have chameleon stealth...

VE96


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Eric Funk
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