[gurps] [VEHICLE] of the week 691 – Hyperfighter

[Onno Meyer]

  This is a weekly posting with GURPS vehicles (and the like) to the 
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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, 2008-01-21

Zan asked about force fields to replace wings:

Hyperfighter v1.0 (TL13)
  Copyright 2008 by Onno Meyer

  The fighter spacecraft has a sufficiently advanced technology for most 
science fiction games - a force screen, contragrav and engines that defy 
physics as we know it ...
  The Hyperfighter is built around the engine room with a fusion reactor
and twin engines. The cockpit is sandwiched between two missile bays and 
the nose gun. In flight, the force screen generator provides stealth and 
aerodynamic streamlining to the boxy hull. On the ground, the nanotech 
hull forms hatches and steps as required.
  It takes nine hours to recharge the power cells after each hyperspace 
jump, or 36 minutes for a minimum-speed entry.

Subassemblies: Body +5. 
Powertrain: Two 300,000-lb. super reactionless thrusters; two 300-ton 
  hyperdrives; two 160,000-lb. contragrav generators; 40,000-kW fusion
  reactor; 400 630,000-kWs rechargeable E power cells.
Occ: 2 RCS.

Armor      F        RL         B         T         U
Body:   4/2,400   4/2,400   4/2,400   4/2,400   4/2,400
  plus DR 1,000 force screen

Weaponry
20-MJ Rapid Pulse Fusion Gun [Bod:F] (200 shots) +2.
Two 3,600-lb. weapon bays.

Equipment:
  Body: Full stabilization for Rapid Pulse Fusion Gun; two extreme range 
gravity ripple communicators; two long range neutrino communicators; two 
400-mile AESAs, LPI; two 800-lightsecond FTL radars; two 400-mile PESAs; 
1,600-mile multiscanner; 40-mile gravscanner; two level 10 surveillance 
sound detectors; two sets of precision navigation instruments; four IFF; 
four inertial navigation systems; two terrain-following radars; two 
HUDWACs with pupil scanners; 5-mile laser optics detector; deceptive 
jammer, rating 16; two C9 hardened microframe computers; two terminals; 
two neural interface fields; compact fire suppression system; two 
cyberswarm hives, armored crawler, rechargeable AA cell, repair swarms; 
two cyberswarm hives, contragrav flyer, rechargeable AA cell, medical 
swarms; two 2-man full life systems; crew escape capsule; two gravity 
webs; shaped, stealth screen generator, FSR 10. External: Basic emission 
cloaking; basic sound baffling; basic stealth; intruder chameleon; 
radiation shielding.

Statistics
Size: 24'x18'x9'   Payload: 4 tons        Lwt.: 40 tons
Volume: 2,000 cf   Maint.: 16 man-hours   Price: $10,799,360

HT: 12.   HPs: 6,000 Body

aSpeed: 6,710   aAccel: 150   aDecel: 18   aMR: 4.5   aSR: 5

sAccel: 7.5   sMR: 7.5   Hyperspeed: 3 parsecs per day

Design Notes
  Body is 2,000 cf, with fair streamlining, underbelly skids, and heavy 
compartmentalization. Structure is extra-heavy, standard, living metal. 
Armor is advanced laminate. Self-sealing. Computerized controls with 
dual maneuver controls. There are 26.18 cf of empty space. Empty weight 
is 72,000 lbs.

Weapon              Weight Volume Cost       Power     WPS VPS CPS TL
20-MJ RP Fusion Gun 1,000  20     $1,400,000 3,600,000  -   -   -  13

Weapon              Ammo Malf. Type  Damage SS Acc 1/2D   Max    RoF 
20-MJ RP Fusion Gun  -   ver.  spcl. 6d*121 25 22  15,000 45,000 20

  The vehicle uses the design rules from Vehicles [2nd edition, 3rd 
printing, Dec 2004 errata], Robots, VXi and VXii (including the armor 
volume rule) with the text format from Vehicles Lite.


Next Week: A traveller mining robot.