[gurps] Ver 1.1 TL6 Small Zeppelin

[Onno Meyer]

I list volumes in the body as Vol0 and volumes in Pod 2 or 3
as Vol23. View monospaced :-)

Item               Weight     Cost      Vol0      Vol1      Vol23 Vol4
2*194 kW prop         286.8   $1,434                        -
388 kW prop           259.8   $1,299                              -
lifting gas                  $49,440.51 706,293
long-range com        100       $600                  2
nav instruments        20       $500                  0.4
3 bridge RCS          120       $300                360
1 RCS                  40       $100                 40
8 NCS                 240       $800         60      60     30     60
21 superior RS        840     $2,100              1,680
8 NS                  240       $800                240
4 hammocks            400        $80                400
2 C toilets            80       $400                 80
galley              3,000     $1,900                400
4*194 kW engine     2,388    $19,104                        23.88  47.76
battery                45        $22.5                0.225 
generator             100       $400 
fuel tank             121.5   $8,100        115.5            1.5    3    
ballast tank          195    $13,000        195   
access space                              4,500
cargo space                                  60

I guess your pod volumes were the actual values, too. Adding
volume is always possible ...

> The rules on sealing and lifting gases are both confusing and produce  
> absurd results.

I'd call them simplified, not confusing ...

* You have a "lifting gas" component. This component has a 
  cost, volume and effectively negative weight.

* This component can go either into a (non-rigid) gasbag or 
  into a faction of a (rigid) hull. Sealing a hull pays for 
  internal gas-tight partitions (read gas cells). 

> "Lifting gas can go in a gasbag subassembly outside the vehicle, or in  
> a sealed body or pod." I'm trying to model a gasbag inside a body. I  
> can see requiring a sealed body for a "metalclad" where a gas-tight  
> metal shell is both body and gas container. Applying a seal to the  
> main body of the Bodensee would cost $20 million, 99.9 percent the  
> cost of the vehicle.

That one is the true killer. But on the other hand the hull
is rather cheap compared to, say, a ship.