[gurps] [VEHICLE] of the week 723 – Hostile Environment Construction Walker

[Onno Meyer]

  This is a weekly posting with GURPS vehicles (and the like) to the 
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  Onno Meyer, 2008-09-01

Hostile Environment Construction Walker v1.0 (TL11)
  Copyright 2008 by Onno Meyer

  The Hostile Environment variant of the Construction Walker is used to 
build bases on inhabitable worlds. Instead of the roll cage of a normal 
Construction Walker, it has a sealed hull with life support. Improved 
arm and hand actuators allow the Walker to replace spacesuited humans 
in many jobs. 

Subassemblies: Body +1, two Legs +0, two Arms +0. 
Powertrain: 4-kW legged drivetrain; 7.5-kW RTG; 45,000-kWs rechargeable 
  D power cell.
Occ: CCS.

Armor     F      RL       B       T       U
All:    4/200   4/200   4/200   4/200   4/200

Equipment:
  Body: Two medium-range radios; two 1-mile PESAs; 5-mile multiscanner; 
two transponders; two global positioning systems; two C4 small, hardened 
computers; terminal; emergency lights and siren; 1-man full life system. 
Arms: Two ST-240 arm motors, cheap, extendable.

Statistics
Size: 4'x6'x8'   Payload: 200 lbs.   Lwt.: 2,000 lbs.
Volume: 50 cf    Maint.: 45 hours    Price: $198,120

HT: 12.   HPs: 360 Body, 144 each Leg, 216 each Arm

gSpeed: 18   gAccel: 8   gDecel: 20   gMR: 3   gSR: 2
Ground Pressure Very Low. Full Off-Road Speed.

Design Notes
  Body is 25 cf. Legs are 7.5 cf each. Arms are 5 cf each, extended 
reach 4 yards. Structure is extra-heavy, expensive. Improved suspension. 
Armor is expensive composite. Sealed. Computerized controls. There are 
0.15 cf of empty space in the body, 4.94 cf in each leg and 2.84 cf in 
each arm. Empty weight is 1,800 lbs. Body ST is 240. 
  The vehicle uses the design rules from Vehicles [second edition, third 
printing, Dec 2004 errata], Robots (the rD power cell), Mecha (the reach 
and ST rules) and VXii (the armor volume rule) with the text format from 
Vehicles Lite. 


Next Week: A little front loader.