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. With a slight delay, old vehicles appear at http://omeyer.gmxhome.de/GURPSnet_files/summary.html Onno Meyer, 2005-12-05
Riverboat SL128 "Dinomn Queen" v1.0 (GURPS Traveller TL5/TL10) Copyright 2005 by Onno Meyer Dinomn (1912 Spinward Marches) has a major starport, but most ships are just refueling on their way to or from Regina. In the undeveloped hinterland, the farmers and herders make do with 'locally sustainable technology' and a few black-box imports. This has led to riverboats like the Dinomn Queen, powered by a steam engine and a stern paddle wheel, yet fitted with a computer navigation system and a modern radio. The superstructure houses the small bridge and a salon for 40-45 passengers. Down in the hull are the engine and the fuel bunker, a cargo hold and bunks for the crew, who live on the boat if there are no decent hotels. The usual crew consists of the captain, a mechanic, a stoker, a cook and a steward. At routine travel speeds, the engine burns 4 cubic feet of coal or 16 cubic feet of wood per hour. A full load of coal is $400 and a full load of wood is $80 (which makes it the fuel of choice for trips lasting less than a day). The boat costs approx. 1,550 Imperial Credits. Subassemblies: Body +6, Superstructure +6. Powertrain: TL5 80-kW paddle wheel; TL5 80-kW triple expansion steam engine; TL5 7,200-kWs lead-acid batteries. Fuel: 400 cf coal. Occ: RCS (Sup), 5 bunks (Body). Cargo: 1,000 cf. Armor F RL B T U Body: 3/5 3/5 3/5 3/5 3/5 Superstructure: 2/2 2/2 2/2 2/2 2/2 Equipment Body: TL10 0.1-mile depth-finding sonar; TL5 galley. Superstructure: TL5 whistle; TL10 long-range radio; TL5 0.1-mile searchlight; TL5 navigation instruments; TL10 transponder; TL10 GPS; TL10 Complexity 4 dedicated, small computer with datalink; TL5 45-man bar; two TL5 roomy toilets. External: TL10 25 sf solar cells (Superstructure). Statistics Size: 60'x18'x24' Payload: 25 tons Lwt.: 45 tons Volume: 10,000 cf Maint.: 106 hours Price: $35,434 HT: 7. HPs: 750 Body, 750 Superstructure wSpeed: 7 wAccel: 0.1 wDecel: 1 wMR: 0.05 wSR: 5 Draft 3.3'. Flotation 142.5 tons. Design Notes Body is 5,000 cf. Superstructure is 5,000 cf. Structure is TL5, extra-light and standard, with mediocre hydrodynamics. Armor is TL5 standard wood. Waterproofed. Mechanical controls. There are 1,560.41 cf of access space in the body and 297.53 cf of access space in the superstructure. Empty weight is 40,000 lbs. The vehicle uses TL5 and TL10 components with the design rules from Vehicles [2nd edition, 3rd printing, Dec 2004 errata], VXi and VXii (for the armor volume) with the text format from Vehicles Lite. Next Week: Another TL5 boat. _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
