[gurps] [VEHICLE] of the week 712 – Master Biomech Tender

[Onno Meyer]

  This is a weekly posting with GURPS vehicles (and the like) to the 
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  Onno Meyer, 2008-06-15

Master Biomech Tender v1.0 (TL12-16)
  Copyright 2008 by Onno Meyer

  In the distant future, only artifacts remain of the enigmatic Masters 
who ruled the galaxy. Centuries of wear, tear, and the death of biomech 
components have degraded most relics -- an operational Worldship Tender 
like this one could change the history of entire systems.
  The Tender has a nominal payload of ten kilotons. Her main cargo hold 
is 400' long and 60' wide, not counting the cargo airlock in front. She 
is powered by a compact ZPE unit in the rear and twin thruster pods on 
the sides. A nose blister contains the cockpit with twenty comfortable 
workstations and most of the avionics. The connecting corridor from the 
cockpit to the engine room is lined by cabins and maintenance workshops.

Subassemblies: Body +11, Superstructure +6, two Pods +7. 
Powertrain: Two 28,800,000-lb. TL12 vectored super reactionless 
  thrusters; 3,600,000-kW TL16 cosmic power plant; 202,500,000-kWs TL12 
  rechargeable power cell.
Occ: 20 bridge RCS, 20 single-occupancy cabins.   Cargo: 1,000,000 cf.

Armor               F      RL       B       T       U
Body:             4/720   4/720   4/720   4/720   4/720
Superstructure:   4/720   4/720   4/720   4/720   4/720
Pods:             4/720   4/720   4/720   4/720   4/720

Equipment:
  Body: Two TL12 7,200-lightsecond FTL radars; two TL12 10,000-mile 
AESAs; two TL12 1,000-mile PESAs; 100 TL12 1-mile bioscanners; twenty 
TL12 computer terminals; ten TL12 full fire suppression systems; two 
TL12 mechanic workshops; two TL12 engineer workshops; 12,500-cf TL12 
airlock; two 72-man TL12 airlocks; 52 TL12 grav units. Superstructure: 
Four TL12 extreme-range radios; two TL12 extreme-range tight-beam 
radios; two TL12 extreme-range laser communicators; TL12 1,000-mile 
multiscanner; TL12 1,000-mile gravscanner; TL12 400x astronomical LLTV; 
four TL12 flight recorders; two sets of TL12 precision navigation 
instruments; four TL12 IFF; six TL12 inertial navigation systems; four 
TL12, C9, biological, hardened, neural-net microframes; twenty TL12 
computer terminals; two TL12 full fire suppression systems; two TL12 
automeds; two TL12 75-man full life systems. External: TL12 deflector 
field.

Statistics
Size: 480'x80'x80'     Payload: 10,002 tons   Lwt.: 14,402 tons
Volume: 1,440,000 cf   Maint.: 79 man-hours   Price: $271,132,910

HT: 12.   HPs: 2,100,000 Body, 6000 Superstructure, 27,000 each Pod

aSpeed: 4,845   aAccel: 40   aDecel: 4   aMR: 1   aSR: 6

sAccel: 2   sMR: 2

Design Notes
  Body is 1,400,000 cf, with very good streamlining, lifting body, and 
underbelly skids. Superstructure is 4,000 cf. Pods are 18,000 cf each. 
Structure is TL12 , medium, very cheap, and biomechanical. Total 
compartmentalization. Armor is TL12, standard, composite. Sealed. TL12  
computerized controls with quadruple maneuver controls. There are 23,896 
cf of empty space in the body and 440 cf of empty space in the 
superstructure. Empty weight is 8,800,000 lbs.
  The vehicle uses the design rules from Vehicles [second edition, third 
printing, Dec 2004 errata], Robots, VXi (including the structural weight 
rule) and VXii (including the armor volume rule) with the text format 
from Vehicles Lite.


Next Week: A slightly more battered relic.