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Shield, grav vehicle design
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Date: Sun, 01 Oct 1995 18:48:19 EDT From: AQLH90D@prodigy.com (MR JON G FULLER) Subject: Shield, grav vehicle design Greetings, I've been intrigued for awhile with the concept of slaved weapons (i. e. auxiliary weapons that track simultaneously with the main weapon of a vehicle) for Traveller. I had the notion last night of putting slaved weapons out on their own -- giving them contra-grav and thrusters and making them into truly autonomous pieces of combat hardware. Using FF&S, I got the concept hammered into something useful, but I lack any rules on making these things into robots -- from what I've picked up, all of that information is in Vampire Fleets. If anyone here could help me finish this as a robot, please help. Below I've listed the design as it stands currently. Any comments are welcome. Shield, autonomous contra-grav weapon (slave capable) TL: 10 Price: 2.529Mcr Size: 28 kiloliters displacement = 2 tons (Mc) Mass: 10.553 tonnes empty 19.78 tonnes loaded Power: 1.5 MW MHD .6 MW MHD (drives propeller) Maint: 1 Controls: Dynamic-linked Flight avionics Terrain-following avionics TL10 mod-st computer x 2 Commo: 30-km Laser 30-km Radio Sensors: 30-km HRT Fire Control: DM -3 (3 modifiers ignored) Armament: 3cm Tri-barrelled CPR Autocannon firing SEFOP ammunition Stabilization: None required (fixed weapon) Ammo: 1800 rounds Travel Move: 564 NOE/1132 High Combat Move: 13 NOE/52 High Fuel Capacity: 8500 liters hydrocarbon distallates (high grade) Fuel Consumption: 500 liters/hour (endurance 17 hours) Combat Statistics Config: HF: 4 Susp: G HS: 4 Deck: 4 HR: 4 Belly: 4 Weapon Values Type ROF Range DamVal PenVal 3cm Tri-Auto 60 500 67 29C w/ballistic comp 1000 (burst radius of and ems rf 2000 60 meters) (sefop) 4000