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GURPS Spaceships: Changi-class Freighter

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Something different this week. This is a GURPS: Spaceships design for a hard(ish) sci-fi setting. This vessel is a small (Size Modifier +8) multi-purpose Passenger/cargo hauler. This setting has no artificial gravity so passenger and crew accommodations are in a spin habitat that provides up to 0.5G in simulated gravity.  The rest of the ship is in zero-G.  The core cargo areas double up as an emergency storm shelter in case of solar flares.  The ship has a sizable fuel store giving a total delta-V reserve of 200m/sec.

Changi-class Trader 1000tons Black Line50%

 

To convert this ship to a GURPS: Transhuman Space vessel, drop the FTL drive and add some more cargo space.  Also change the propulsion system to A Fusion Pulse Drive and drop the delta-V reserve of the fuel tanks accordingly.

This PDF has the vessel’s GURPS:Spaceship design sheet. GURPS Space 4e – Spaceship – Changi-class Freighter

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Changi-class Trader 1000tons

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Solomani 100-Dton Survey Scout: Reddit competition entry

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This is my entry in the reddit competition to design a 100Dton Scout ship – any design rules.  I went with the GURPS Spaceships ruleset which is an abstract design system that divides a ship up into twenty slots and various systems are then plugged in – fuel, engines, crew accommodations and so forth.  Ships are rated by size, ranging from Size Modifier +5 (30 tons) to +15 (3 million tons). Exactly what a particular system plugged into a slot gives you depends totally on the size of the vessel.  For example, a bridge on a SM+5 ship has one control station, while on a SM+15 ship it has sixty.

I went for a Solomani Survey Scout. This vessel is designed for survey and research work. It has enhanced scientific sensors to aid in this work. It carries eight crew in somewhat cramped conditions, which is normal on Solomani ships compared to Imperial vessels which allocate more space per crewman on average.

This PDF gives all the systems and ship stats in GURPS Spaceship format.

GURPS Space 4e – Spaceship -Solomani Marizela-class Survey Scout

This PDF includes a copy of the deck plan (reduced size).

GURPS Space 4e – Spaceship -Solomani Marizela-class Survey Scout with deckplan

Marizela-class Survey Scout Deck Layout
Deck layout of the Marizela-class Survey Scout.

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100Dton Solomani Survey Scout Named

NOTE: The name ‘Marizela” was chosen because it belongs to a missing woman whose story has touched me.  Marizela Perez went missing in 2011 from near her college campus at the University of Washington in Seattle.  I cannot imagine the anguish of the family not knowing the whereabouts of their loved one. Please visit the Find Marizela Website.