[gurps] [VEHICLE] of the week 770 - Space Marine Multipurpose Lift Vehicle

[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. The files at omeyer.gmxhome.de are down until 
I fix the automatic PDF generation, which should be one of these 
days - see sourceforge.net/projects/gurpsml
  Onno Meyer, 2009-07-27

  The 'double issue' of this week presents the same vehicle twice, once 
as a Vehicles design and once with the new Spaceships rules, even if it 
is not really a spaceship. The Spaceships design is a bit underarmored, 
but otherwise a good match.

Space Marine Multipurpose Lift Vehicle v1.0 (TL11)
  Copyright 2009 by Onno Meyer

  The Space Marine Multipurpose Lift Vehicle can operate on the surface 
of most planets or in low orbit. Usually MLVs are deployed by dropships 
while the interstellar transport waits in the outer system. 
  The basic variant of the Multipurpose Lift Vehicle carries two pilots 
and eight troopers in cramped conditions. It is armored to resist small 
arms fire and armed with a rapid-pulse 1.44-MJ laser in a remote turret.
Other variants include a command post vehicle with six workstations, an 
ambulance, a maintenance vehicle, and a drone control vehicle.
  The NPU can recharge one laser shot every 17.5 seconds.

Subassemblies: Body +4, full-rotation Turret +0. 
Powertrain: Two 20,000-lb. vectored super reactionless thrusters; 
  2,250-kW NPU; ten 450,000-kWs rechargeable power cells.
Occ: 2 CCS, 8 folding CS.   Cargo: 60 cf.

Armor     F      RL       B       T       U
All:    4/300   4/300   4/300   4/300   4/300

Weaponry:
1.44-MJ X-Ray Laser [Tur:F] (1,171 shots) +2.

Equipment:
  Body: Two very-long-range radios with scramblers; four 1x LLTVs; two 
50-mile AESAs, LPI; 50-mile multiscanner; navigation instruments; four 
IFF; two inertial navigation systems; two terrain-following radars; two 
HUDWACs with pupil scanners; advanced radar/laser detector; 30 aircraft 
decoy dischargers; two C6 hardened minicomputers; two terminals; two 
neural induction fields; compact fire suppression system; forcelock; two 
cyberswarm hives (armored crawler, rechargeable AA cell, repair swarms); 
cyberswarm hive (armored crawler, rechargeable AA cell, cleaning swarm); 
cyberswarm hive (armored crawler, rechargeable AA cell, medical swarm); 
10-man full life system; 10 crashwebs. Turret: Full stabilization and 
universal mount for laser; two medium-range neutrino communicators with 
scramblers; 100-mile PESA. External: Basic emission cloaking; basic 
stealth; basic chameleon; radiation shielding.

Statistics
Size: 12'x8'x6'   Payload: 1.6 tons     Lwt.: 8 tons
Volume: 400 cf    Maint.: 5 man-hours   Price: $1,029,722.5

HT: 12.   HPs: 1,200 Body, 60 Turret

aSpeed: 600   aAccel: 50   aDecel: 16   aMR: 4   aSR: 3

sAccel: 2.5 G   sMR: 2.5

Design Notes
  Body is 394 cf, with heavy compartmentalization and underbelly skids. 
Turret is 6 cf, with heavy compartmentaliztion. Structure is heavy and 
standard. Armor is standard laminate. Sealed. Computerized controls with 
duplicate maneuver controls. 9.43 cf of empty space. Empty weight is 
12,800 lbs. 

Weapon              Weight Volume Cost    Power  WPS VPS CPS TL
1.44-MJ X-Ray Laser 100    2      $40,000 76,800  -   -   -  11

Weapon              Ammo Malf. Type Damage  SS Acc 1/2D   Max    RoF
1.44-MJ X-Ray Laser  -   v(c)  imp. 6d*4(2) 20 23  13,000 39,000 20*

  The vehicle uses the design rules from Vehicles [second edition, third 
printing, Dec 2004 errata], RO, VXi and VXii (including the armor volume 
rule) with the text format from Vehicles Lite. 


Space Marine Multipurpose Lift Vehicle, Spaceships Version v1.0 (TL11^)
  Copyright 2009 by Onno Meyer

  The Space Marine Multipurpose Lift Vehicle can operate on the surface 
of most planets or in low orbit. Usually MLVs are deployed by dropships 
while the interstellar transport waits in the outer system. 
  The basic variant of the Multipurpose Lift Vehicle carries two pilots 
and eight troopers in cramped conditions. It is armored to resist small 
arms fire and armed with a rapid-pulse 30-kj laser in a remote turret.
Other variants include a command post vehicle with six workstations, an 
ambulance, a maintenance vehicle, and a drone control vehicle.
  The MLV has a 10 ton (SM+4) unstreamlined hull. It has stealth and 
dynamic chameleon.

Systems Table

Front Hull   System
[1]          Hardened Diamondoid Armor (dDR 7).
[2-5]        Passenger Seating (1 seat each).
[6, core]    Control Rooms (C7 computer, comm/sensor 4, and one control 
             station each).

Central Hull System
[1]          Hardened Diamondoid Armor (dDR 7).
[2!]         Major Battery (turret with 300kJ rapid fire x-ray laser).
[3]          Cargo (0.5 tons).
[4-6, core]  Passenger Seating (1 seat each).

Rear Hull    System
[1]          Hardened Diamondoid Armor (dDR 7).
[2-4!]       Standard Reactionless Drive (1 G acceleration each).
[5-6]        Fusion Reactors (two power points each).

TL  Spacecraft dST/HP Hnd/SR HT Move  Lwt. Load SM Occ   dDR Range Cost
PILOTING/TL11 (HIGH-PERFORMANCE SPACECRAFT)
11^ MLV        15     0/4    12 3 G/c 10   1.5  +4 2+8SV 7*  -     $1.225M
* Hardened.

Top air speed is 430 mph, Move is 30/215, Handling/SR is 0/4.


Next Week: A little buggy for Traveller.