[gurps] [VEHICLE] of the week 718 – Light Freighter

[Onno Meyer]

  This is a weekly posting with GURPS vehicles (and the like) to the 
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  Onno Meyer, 2008-07-28

Light Freighter v0.1 (TL13)
  Copyright 2008 by Onno Meyer

  The Light Freighter supplies backwater planets far from the busy space 
lanes. Her listed capacity are 96 tons of cargo, no passengers, and four
crew (master, mate, mechanic, and purser), but the engines could haul a 
much greater mass and the life support is rated for ten humanoids. Most 
Light Freighters are unarmed, but they have enough speed and sensors to 
evade most ordinary pirates. 
  It takes 16 hours to recharge the power cells for a hyperspace entry.

Subassemblies: Body +7, four retractable Skids +3. 
Powertrain: Two 400,000-lb. reactionless thrusters; 400-ton hyperdrive; 
  two 800,000-lb. contragrav units; 75-kW RTG; 48,000-kW fusion reactor;  
  five 31,500,000-kWs rechargeable power cells.
Occ: 4 RCS, 4 single-occupancy cabins.   Cargo: 9,600 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

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; five computer 
terminals; full fire suppression system; mechanic mini-workshop; 
automed; two forcelocks; high-security alarm; 360-cf spacedock; two 
10-man total life systems; grav unit. 

Statistics
Size: 80'x40'x20'   Payload: 100 tons      Lwt.: 160 tons
Volume: 24,000 cf   Maint.: 13 man-hours   Price: $6,959,750

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

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. Structure is heavy and standard. Armor 
is expensive metal. Sealed. Computerized controls with duplicate 
maneuver controls. There are 1,392 cf of empty space. Empty weight is 
120,000 lbs.
  The vehicle uses the design rules from Vehicles [second edition, third 
printing, Dec 2004 errata] and VXii (the armor volume rule) with the 
text format from Vehicles Lite.


Next Week: A nanofactory variant.