[gurps] [VEHICLE] of the week 734 – Mag-Lev Maintenance Car

[Onno Meyer]

  This is a weekly posting with GURPS vehicles (and the like) to the 
GURPSnet mailing list. I grant the permission for all non-commercial 
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, 2008-11-17

Mag-Lev Maintenance Car v1.0 (TL10)
  Copyright 2008 by Onno Meyer

  This specialized car is used to maintain magnetic levitation rails on 
worlds with little or no atmosphere. The Maintenance Car carries a work 
party, a supply of spare parts, and a workshop for on-site repairs. One 
airlock leads to the monorail track, the other has a telescoping ladder 
to get down to the ground (where the track is elevated on pylons). The 
car is designed to return at the end of each shift, so there are no 
living quarters.
  The mag-lev car might fit into Traveller games where contragrav is 
less effective (or more expensive) than described by GURPS Traveller. 

Subassemblies: Body +5. 
Powertrain: 48,000-lb. mag-lev lifter; 500-kW contact power; 360,000-kWs 
  rechargeable power cell.
Occ: 2 RCS, 8 RS.   Cargo: 300 cf

Armor    F      R      B      T      U
Body:   4/32   4/32   4/32   4/32   4/32

Equipment:
  Body: Two long-range radios; 5-mile searchlight; two 5x LLTVs; two 
1x LLTVs; 1-mile, high-res imaging radar, no targeting; data recorder; 
two transponders; two C4 small computers; two terminals; full fire 
suppression system; engineering workshop; 60' extendable ladder; two 
4-man airlocks; two 12-man limited life systems. External: Radiation 
shielding.

Statistics
Size: 40'x8'x8'    Payload: 4 tons    Lwt.: 20 tons.
Volume: 2,000 cf   Maint.: 44 hours   Price: $209,950

HT: 12.   HPs: 3,000 Body

Performance at 1 G and standard atmosphere:
mSpeed: 270   mAccel: 5   mDecel: 1   mMR: 0.25   mSR: 6

Performance at 0.16 G and trace atmosphere:
mSpeed: 1,695   mAccel: 5   mDecel: 1   mMR: 0.25   mSR: 6

Design Notes
  Body is 2,000 cf. Structure is heavy and very cheap. Armor is cheap 
metal. Sealed. Mechanical controls. 679.85 cf of empty space. Empty 
weight is 32,000 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: Probably a stealthy TL11 shuttle.