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, 2006-03-06
ArcoTech Bus v1.0 (GURPS Traveller TL9) Copyright 2006 by Onno Meyer On very inhospitable planets, populations are often concentrated in a few arcologies. Vehicles for use within these buildings differ from the open country models - size matters, and bigger isn't always better. The ArcoTech Bus is open, with seats for a driver and nine passengers and standing room for five more. The bus is less than 4 m long, with an articulated rear section for turns in narrow corridors. A robotic model for 15 passengers was developed as well, but public mistrust of robots has led to a commercial failure - customers want a human in charge, not a machine. At full speed, the power cells last for 12.5 hours. Subassemblies: Body +3, six small Wheels -1. Powertrain: 12-kW wheeled drivetrain; two 270,000-kWs rechargeable E cells. Occ: 1 XCCS, 9 XCS, 5 XCSR. Armor F RL B T U Body: 2/3 2/3 2/3 2/3 2/3 Wheels: 3/5 3/5 3/5 3/5 3/5 Equipment Body: Short-range cellular phone; C2 compact, dumb, small computer dedicated to datalink. Statistics Size: 13'x5'x3' Payload: 3,000 lbs. Lwt.: 4,000 lbs. Volume: 180 cf Maint.: 199 hours Price: $10,115 HT: 12. HPs: 150 Body, 8 each Wheel gSpeed: 40 gAccel: 2 gDecel: 15 gMR: 0.5 gSR: 4 Ground Pressure High. Off-Road Speed 1/6. Design Notes Articulated body is 170 cf. Wheels are 10 cf (increased volume). Structure is light and cheap. All-wheel steering and improved brakes. Body armor is cheap composite, wheel armor is cheap metal. Mechanical controls. There are 2.11 cf of empty space. Empty weight is 1,000 lbs. The TL9 vehicle uses the design rules from Vehicles [2nd edition, 3rd printing, Dec 2004 errata], VXi and VXii (including the armor volume rule) with the text format from Vehicles Lite. The Traveller rules affect the background but not the technology of this design. Next Week: A little fire engine. _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
