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TL15 10,000MJ NPAW
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Date: Tue, 6 Jun 1995 17:12:29 -0600 (MDT) From: merrick@Rt66.com (Merrick Burkhardt) Subject: TL15 10,000MJ NPAW Here's one of mine to chew up/on/whatever. TL-15 10,000 MJ NPAW Length: 100m Leff.: 100m Dia.: 4m FA: 12.57m^2 FAeff.: 50.27m^2 Discharge Energy: 10,000 MJ Effective Range: 5,027,000 km (167.57 hexes) Tunnel Volume: 1257 kl Tunnel Mass: 942.74 tonnes Cost: 125.7MCr HPG Volume: 1750 kl HPG Mass: 3500 tonnes Cost: 17.5 MCr WkStation: 7 kl WkSt. Mass: .2 Cost: .002 MCr Beam Pointer: 3 kl BP Mass: 3 Cost: .3 MCr Here is the data for various rates of fire (Note that I've included a place for the Powerplant (PP) volume required (to fire at the given ROF): ROF Power Vol. Mass Cost Crew PPVolume (MW) (kl) (tonnes) (MCr) (kl) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 10 277.8 3031 4446.4 143.5 3 46.3 50 1388.9 same same same 3 231.5 100 2777.8 same same same 3 463 200 5555.6 3407.1 4729.14 181.52 3 925.9 400 11111.2 3917.9 5106.5 231.5 4 1851.9 800 22222.4 4560.4 5577.7 294.35 6 3703.7 Stats: BL: 10:500 20:500 40:500 80:500 BR: P(-2)10:10 or P[-2]10:10 (assuming you haven't included a dedicated powerplant to fire at ROF=100) P(-3 to -5)10:10 (depending on ROF) You may wonder why I bothered to include the PP volume... I've been working out a "make a quick BR ship" setup, and by lumping the PP volume with systems that aren't a percentage of total volume, I can get the basic overhead volume (jump, mdrive, fuel, armor, LS, quarters, etc) in 2 or 3 steps, and just add weapons, etc.---I made the ships in the next post in less than an hour (I leave a fair bit of slop just in case, but BR is sloppy too, so I think the designs would work out in FFS (doing a large number of 10 kton+ ships isn't what I feel like doing right now). -Merrick