[gurps] [VEHICLE] of the week 743 – Stealth Sensor Array

[Onno Meyer]

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  Onno Meyer, 2009-01-19

Stealth Sensor Array v1.0 (TL11)
  Copyright 2009 by Onno Meyer

  Starships emplace the Stealth Sensor Array in orbit around primitive 
worlds, for routine surveillance or perhaps to prepare a first contact 
mission. The primary wideband EM array covers wavelengths from visible 
light to microwave radiation. From a low orbit, it can resolve details 
down to 10 cm. The secondary hyperspectral sensor covers even more of 
the EM spectrum at a lower resolution. The Array can maneuver at 0.25 
G, fast for a satellite but less so for an interstellar craft. Active 
and passive stealth systems give it the radar signature of a grain of 
sand, and the thermal signature is hardly larger.

Subassemblies: Body +1. 
Powertrain: 250-lb. vectored super reactionless thruster; 25-kW NPU.

Armor    F      RL     B      T      U
Body:   4/20   4/20   4/20   4/20   4/20

Equipment:
  Body: Long-range radio with scrambler; two long-range laser 
communicators with scramblers; 1,000-mile PESA; 100-mile radscanner; 
flight data recorder; IFF; inertial navigation system; deceptive jammer, 
rating 10; two C5 hardened, small robot brains; high-security alarm; 
0.001 kT self-destruct. External: Radical emission cloaking; radical 
stealth; intruder chameleon; radiation shielding.

Statistics
Size: 6'x4'x2'   Payload: -         Lwt.: 1,000 lbs.
Volume: 25 cf    Maint.: 21 hours   Price: $892,845

HT: 12.   HPs: 90 Body

sAccel: 0.25 G   sMR: 0.25

Design Notes
  Body is 25 cf. Structure is medium, very expensive, robotic. Armor is 
expensive composite. Self-sealing. 10.17 cf of empty space. Empty weight 
is 1,000 lbs. 
  The vehicle uses the design rules from Vehicles [second edition, third 
printing, Dec 2004 errata] and VXii (including the armor volume rule) 
with the text format from Vehicles Lite. 


Next Week: A moon buggy for Traveller.