[gurps] [VEHICLE] of the week 766 - Interstellar Assault Transport

[Onno Meyer]

  This is a weekly posting with GURPS vehicles (and the like) to the 
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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, 2009-06-29

  The 'double issue' of this week presents the same ship twice, once as 
a Vehicles design and once with the new Spaceships rules. The Spaceship 
is considerably larger than the Vehicle -- 12,000 tons 'rounded up' to 
30,000 tons -- but deep down they represent the same ship.

Interstellar Assault Transport v1.0 (TL11)
  Copyright 2009 by Onno Meyer

  The Assault Transport carries a squadron of six dropships and eighteen 
gunships and a heavily reinforced space marine company over interstellar 
distances. A single Transport is not much against a developed world, but 
there are places in the galaxy where one ship can make a difference ...
  The Transport has two hangar bays, a dorsal bay for the gunships and a 
ventral bay for the dropships. A ramp from the cargo hold to the ventral 
hangar allows the rapid loading of ground vehicles. She mounts powerful 
hyperdrives to keep up with naval task forces, stealth systems to avoid 
detection, and point defense lasers in case the stealth fails. The crew 
quarters are distributed in between, into any remaining spaces. 
  The fusion reactors can recharge one laser shot every 3.2 seconds.

Subassemblies: Body +11. 
Powertrain: Six 8,000,000-lb. vectored super reactionless thrusters; 
  six 40,000-ton hyperdrives; four 720,000-kW fusion reactors; twelve 
  7,500,000,000-kWs rechargeable power cells.
Occ: 60 bridge RCS, 80 single-occupancy cabins, 320 double-occupancy 
  cabins.
Cargo: 100,000 cf.

Armor      F        RL         B         T         U
Body:   4/1,800   4/1,800   4/1,800   4/1,800   4/1,800

Weaponry:
Six 54-MJ X-Ray Lasers [Bod:F] (1,041 shots each) +2.
Six 54-MJ X-Ray Lasers [Bod:R] (1,041 shots each) +2.
Six 54-MJ X-Ray Lasers [Bod:L] (1,041 shots each) +2.
Two 54-MJ X-Ray Lasers [Bod:B] (1,041 shots each) +2.
Two 54-MJ X-Ray Lasers [Bod:T] (1,041 shots each) +2.
Two 54-MJ X-Ray Lasers [Bod:U] (1,041 shots each) +2.

Equipment:
  Body: Full stabilization and cyberslave mounts for X-Ray Lasers; six 
extreme-range radios with scramblers; six extreme-range neutrino 
communicators with scramblers; 30 long-range neutrino communicators with 
scramblers; six 3,000-mile AESAs, LPI; six 36,000-lightsecond FTL 
radars; six 18,000-mile PESAs; three 72,000-mile radscanners; 1,800-mile 
gravscanner; six 400x astronomical LLTV; high-resolution planetary 
survey array; two sets of precision navigation instruments; four IFF; 
four inertial navigation systems; 24 HUDWACs with pupil scanners; three 
advanced radar/laser detectors; four deceptive jammers, rating 14; six 
C9 hardened macroframes; 500 terminals; 60 neural induction fields; 24 
full fire suppression systems; cartography lab; biochemistry lab; ten 
complete workshops; four ST 6,250 tractor beams; four operating rooms; 
24 automeds; 2,000-sf mess; 12 forcelocks; 48-bunk brig; two 120,000-cf 
spacedocks; two 1,000-man total life systems; 45 grav units. External: 
Radical emission cloaking; radical stealth; intruder chameleon; 
radiation shielding; deflector field.

Statistics
Size: 400'x160'x80'    Payload: 4,000 tons     Lwt.: 12,000 tons
Volume: 1,200,000 cf   Maint.: 165 man-hours   Price: $1,187,158,780

HT: 9.   HPs: 420,000 Body

sAccel: 2 G   sMR: 2   FTL Speed: 4 parsec/day

Design Notes
  Body is 1,200,000 cf, with total compartmentalization and underbelly 
skids. Structure is extra-heavy, expensive. Armor is expensive laminate. 
Self-sealing. Computerized controls with quadruple maneuver controls. 
15,253 cf of empty space. Empty weight is 16,000,000 lbs. 

Weapon            Weight Volume Cost     Power     WPS VPS CPS TL
54-MJ X-Ray Laser 6,000  120    $830,000 1,152,000  -   -   -  11

Weapon            Ammo Malf. Type Damage   SS Acc 1/2D    Max     RoF
54-MJ X-Ray Laser  -   v(c)  imp. 6d*25(2) 30 30  150,000 450,000  8*

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


Interstellar Assault Transport, Spaceships Version v1.0 (TL11^)
  Copyright 2009 by Onno Meyer

  The Assault Transport carries a squadron of six dropships and eighteen 
gunships and a heavily reinforced space marine company over interstellar 
distances. A single Transport is not much against a developed world, but 
there are places in the galaxy where one ship can make a difference ...
  The Transport has two hangar bays, a dorsal bay for the gunships and a 
ventral bay for the dropships. A ramp from the cargo hold to the ventral 
hangar allows the rapid loading of ground vehicles. She mounts powerful 
hyperdrives to keep up with naval task forces, stealth systems to avoid 
detection, and point defense lasers in case the stealth fails. The crew 
quarters are distributed in between, into any remaining spaces. 
  The Transport has a 30,000 ton (SM+11) unstreamlined hull. She has 
artificial gravity, stealth and dynamic chameleon.

Systems Table

Front Hull   System
[1]          Hardened Diamondoid Armor (dDR 100).
[2]          Habitat (200 cabins).*
[3!]         Stardrive Engine (FTL-1).*
[4-5]        Hangar Bay (1,000 tons each).*
[6!]         Stardrive Engine (FTL-1).*
[core]       Control Room (C10 computer, comm/sensor 11, and 15 control 
             stations).*

Central Hull System
[1]          Hardened Diamondoid Armor (dDR 100).
[2]          Habitat (200 cabins).*
[3!]         Stardrive Engine (FTL-1).*
[4-5]        Hangar Bay (1,000 tons each).*
[6!]         Tertiary Battery (24 turreted 300MJ x-ray lasers, four
             turreted 300MJ tractors, 100 tons of cargo).*
[core]       Fusion Reactor (provides two power points).*

Rear Hull    System
[1]          Hardened Diamondoid Armor (dDR 100).
[2!]         Standard Reactionless Drive (1 G acceleration).*
[3]          Habitat (12 cells, 200-man mess, 10 gyms, 2 labs, Strategy 
             ops center, 24-automed clinic sickbay, 550 tons of cargo).*
[4!]         Stardrive Engine (FTL-1).*
[5]          Fusion Reactor (provides two power points).*
[6!]         Standard Reactionless Drive (1 G acceleration).*
* 3 workspaces per system.

  The crew includes 15 bridge operators per shift and 275 technicians 
and support staff.

TL  Spacecraft dST/HP Hnd/SR HT Move  Lwt.   Load    SM  Occ    dDR  Range Cost
PILOTING/TL11 (HIGH-PERFORMANCE SPACECRAFT)
11^ Transport  200    -2/5   13 2 G/c 30,000 4,738.4 +11 848ASV 100* 4x    $4,031.4M
* Hardened.

Top air speed is 350 mph, Move is 20/175, Handling/SR is -2/5.


Next Week: The Gunship.