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. My site is down for rebuilding, but sooner or later the old stuff should reappear at omeyer.gmxhome.de Onno Meyer, 2009-05-04
Nexa-V-class Light Lander v1.0 (TL10) Copyright 2009 by Onno Meyer The Nexa V is used as a surface-to-orbit transport in thinly settled systems. The Light Lander was designed for moons or small planets with little or no atmosphere. It can carry twenty tons of cargo and a dozen passengers, in addition to the crew of three. The Lander has a conical hull with two and a half decks - cockpit and passenger cabin on top, cargo hold in the center, and tanks, engine and landing gear in the 4' lower deck crawlspace. The fusion rocket gives 1 G acceleration, enough for worlds up to Mars size, and a delta-V of 49 km/s allows several landings between refueling stops. The engine uses 1,600 gallons of reaction mass per hour. Subassemblies: Body +6, six retractable Skids +2. Powertrain: 80,000-lb. vectored fusion rocket; 100-kW RTG; two 360,000-kWs rechargeable E power cells. Fuel: 2,000 gallons water. Occ: 3 RCS, 12 folding CS. Cargo: 2,000 cf. Armor F RL B T U Body: 4/50 4/50 4/50 4/50 4/50 Skids: 3/10 3/10 3/10 3/10 3/10 Equipment: Body: Two very long range radios; long-range, tight-beam radio; four 5x LLTVs; two 160-mile radars; 16-mile radscanner; two flight data recorders; two sets of precision navigation instruments; two transponders; two inertial navigation systems; two C5 hardened minicomputers; three terminals; cargo ramp; 2-man airlock; refueling probe; cramped toilet; two 15x12 man-hour limited life systems. External: Radiation shielding. Statistics Size: 16'x16'x24' Payload: 30 tons Lwt.: 40 tons Volume: 4,000 cf Maint.: 4 man-hours Price: $832,700 HT: 9. HPs: 1,500 Body, 31 each Skid sAccel: 1 to 1.3 Gs sMR: 1 Delta-V: 110,283 mph Design Notes Body is 4,000 cf, with very good streamlining. Skids are 200 cf, retract into body. Structure is light and expensive. Armor is expensive metal. Sealed. Computerized controls with duplicate maneuver controls. There are 18.7 cf of empty space. Empty weight is 20,000 lbs. The 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. Next Week: A bigger shuttle. _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
