[GURPS] Qasar Class Scout Cruiser

[mbrinkhues]

GTL-11 Qasar Class Scout Cruiser

Introduction This is a conversion of the Qasar class Scout Cruiser from the EPIC Adventure 5 converted to GURPS. To get the ship working, I had to make various changes:

+ The TechLevel was raised by one Techlevel to fit all the systems
+ The universal hangar bay was replaced by a vehicle-specific Vehicle Bay
+ I dropped the solar sails since they are useless in GURPS:Traveller
+ I reduced the cargo volume

General Description The Qasar class scout cruiser is an older ship in service with the ISS since the mid 900rds. Designed for mid to long range exploration missions in and beyond the borders of the empire it fills a middle ground between the 400dt Donosev scout ship and the 3000dt Scout cruisers.

The ships mission package includes planetary and astrographic survey sensors, enhanced long-range passiv arrays, three dedicated laboratory modules and a probe launcher and some workspace/conference space. To enhance the region
surveyed the ship carries a Typ-S Scout ship in addition to a 10dt launch.

To enhance it's survivability during missions outside the Empire, the ship has redundant Jump- and Maneuver Drives, hardened computer systems, a armored hull and a limited self-defence armament consisting of two triple laser turrets and two triple sandcasters. This is complemented by a large engineering workshop. The ship is equiped with a liquid crystal (environmental assimilation) hull and some basic emmision masking to allow initial observations without being detected.

The crew consists of a sixteen person vehicle operations crew, six to eight laboratory crew and three crewpersons for the Type-S. They share a total of fifteen cabins, three single ones for the Captain, Chief Engineer and Chief Scientist] and 12 double occupancy cabins. To keep them healthy and fit they have access to a well equiped sick bay and a moderate sized gym.

The ship is fully streamlined and equiped for frontiere refueling. It has a 4 parsek jump range (J-1 reserve engine) and is capabel of 2g of thrust (1g reserve unit) with full contragrav compensation.

Technical data

1000dt streamlined hull, 2348to loaded weight, 419MCr excluding subcraft

Hull armor: 200DR Superdense with Liquid Crystal Skin and Basic EM-Masking

Weapons :Four fully streamlined turrets with 2x3 GTL-11 Lasers and 2x3 GTL-11 Sandcasters

Crew: 5 Bridge, 5 Engineering, 4 Gunner, 1 Medical, 4-6 Laboratory, 2 Probe Operators, 3 Scout crew, 1 Launch Operator

Quarters: 15 Staterooms, Sickbay, Gymnasium

Science: 3 Laboratories (1 Simulation Lab, 2 Physical Lab), 1 Office Space

(Conference rooms, workspace), Probe Launcher (16 ready probes), Enhanced passive Sensors, Astrographic and Planetary Survey sensors


GURPS


Hardened Standard Bridge, Jump-4 and Jump-1(50+20 Modules), Thrust-2 and Thrust-1 (48+21 Modules), JFuel (400), Fuel Processor (5 Modules), Utility
Grav(2), ContraGrav(1), Large Workshop, Sickbay, 1 Simulation Lab, 2 Physics Labs, Medium PESA-Array(48/1.5Mio km), Planetary Survey Add-On, Astrographic Add-On, Probe Launcher Module, Vehicle Dock/Scout(105), Vehicle Dock/10dt Launch (10.5), 40 Cargo Spaces (250to cargo), 15 Staterooms, 1 Gymnasium, 1 Office Module

 

[jwcarroll60]

Interesting vessel. Sort of a pre-first contact vessel maybe?

 

[Whipsnade]

JW,

It's a GURPS version of a T20 design.

The ship appears in one of the QLI Epic adventures. It's an interesting ship and an interesting adventure.


Have fun,
Bill

 

[mbrinkhues]

Originally posted by Bill Cameron:
JW,

It's a GURPS version of a T20 design.

The ship appears in one of the QLI Epic adventures. It's an interesting ship and an interesting adventure.


Have fun,
Bill

As stated in the first section of the writeup

The fact that EPIC #5 is a very interesting an "logical" adventure[1] is the main reason I converted it. Chances to get a G:T SL or players is bigger than with T20 around here.

But designating it a "Pre First Contact" vessel matches the description from the adventure quite nicely. These ships undertake "Long missions" and chart new territory.


[1] Logical = It will work without forcing the PC or NPC into any extraordinary deeds

 

[trader jim]

I LIKE this....I ran a copy...its now safly tucked away in my old beat up CORE book.
Now all i gotta do is wait for the 4th edition of
STAR SHIPS!!

 

[Maladominus]

Is it not-as-ugly as the Donosev?

Last time I looked at a "large sophisticated Scout vessel" (the Donosev)... it qualified for the Ugliest Ship in Known Space. =)

 

[Whipsnade]

Originally posted by Michael Brinkhues:
As stated in the first section of the writeup

Michael,

Which JW apparently missed.

I could tell him to re-read your post or I could tell him it was from EPIC 5. Which is more polite?


Have fun,
Bill

 

[mbrinkhues]

Polite? We are Polite on this board? Uups!

But when I found out what this polite is[1][2] I guess your version is the better

[1] Two Westfalians meet W1:"Moin" W2:"Moin, Moin" W1: "Blabbermouth"

[2] I grew up in a culture where "Du Arschloch" (Asshole!) was an acceptable adress during stressful work but "Sie ..." (You sir are an ...) a grave insult. (Du = Personal adress form, Sie = Formal adress form) And using the formal adress form got you funny looks from everyone but the Austrian.

 

[Pickles]

Originally posted by Michael Brinkhues:
I grew up in a culture where "Du Arschloch" (Asshole!) was an acceptable adress during stressful work but "Sie ..." (You sir are an ...) a grave insult. (Du = Personal adress form, Sie = Formal adress form) And using the formal adress form got you funny looks from everyone but the Austrian.

And I thought it was just my family ...

 

[mbrinkhues]

Sheffield: Are your parents are in mining or in steelworking?

 

[Pickles]

Heh, no ... what are you implying about steelworkers?

I was talking about my youth in Nordrhein-Westfalen.

 

[Michael Taylor]

The Qasar is not ugly. A pic by Bryan Gibson is in Epic 5. It could qualify as the most streamlined and beautiful ship type in service with the Scouts. (not that i'm biased).

 

[Chaos]

Originally posted by Michael Brinkhues:
Polite? We are Polite on this board? Uups!

But when I found out what this polite is[1][2] I guess your version is the better

[1] Two Westfalians meet W1:"Moin" W2:"Moin, Moin" W1: "Blabbermouth"

[2] I grew up in a culture where "Du Arschloch" (Asshole!) was an acceptable adress during stressful work but "Sie ..." (You sir are an ...) a grave insult. (Du = Personal adress form, Sie = Formal adress form) And using the formal adress form got you funny looks from everyone but the Austrian.

(1) That´s Frisians, not Westphalians. Or maybe it´s both.
(2) That´s actually not that bad... I recall that once, in parliament, the then-newly-elected-MP Joschka Fischer said the... uh, I guess Speaker of the House is the English term... well, anyway, he said: "With all due respect, Mr. Speaker, you are an asshole."