Some grav vehicles for your enjoyment

[Eric]

Here`s a preview of my next Toys post.

Grav ball
A small (about the size of a softball) self contained grav flyer. Can travel by it`s self, at high speeds avoiding obstacles and capture. It can be programed with hundreds of different evasive maneuvers. The flight path is usually determined as a preprogramed path or destination or completely random movement within the specified boundaries. Needles to say there are many very interesting sports that revolve around use of the grav ball. One type of game that the authorities are not to happy about are the city wide Wind Surfer games. Games like capture the flag, except the flag is moving. And a high speed version of Lacrosse. Some versions of the grav ball have a densitometer built in and will plow through anything soft or fragile.

class Grav Vehicle
TL 12
cost Cr 500
size Diminutive
drive train Grav
range 8 hours
agility 7
initiative +7
AC 21 (+7 agility +4 size)
SI 5
speeds Acceleration=20kph Offroad=n/a Very Slow=20kph Slow=35kph Cruising=70kph Fast=100kph maximum=150kph

 

[cmdrx]

Can you see why most Traveller players love the idea of Quidditch? Muggles can do it with TL9 technology! It's grav balls (the snitch and bludgers) a non grav ball (quaffle) and you are flying on a grav-stick.

Now, imagine zero-g quidditch in a 3-D spherical pitch. Insane!

 

[mark_rotteveel]

I remember that backpack, my question was more abaout a robotic luggage which would follow the heels of it's owners...a few inches off the ground

Sound like 'Luggage' from the Rinsewind novels....

 

[Hecateus]

I imagine that at the mid TLs, the advanced near fleshy feet, the 'agressive' AI, the bottomless self sorting storage, and the sapient pear wood body would make a real "Luggage" a bit of a rarity.

 

[justacaveman]

Coming soon, the "Grav Bolo"

A TL13 relic from the 2nd Imperium.

 

[Golan2072]

Originally posted by cmdrx:
For you HP fans who want to play quidditch using advanced muggle technology

Broomstick
Class: Grav Vehicle
Cost : Cr4052
Tech Level: 9
Size: Small (25vl)
Streamlining: Standard
Pressurized: No
Climate Control : No
Drive Train : Grav
EP Output: 0.5 (0.42 excess)
Crew: 1
Passengers: 0
Cargo Space : 3.5vl
Visual: None
Sensors: None
Comm.: None
Fuel: 7.5vl
Range: 100hrs
Speeds: Acceleration: 32kph Max Speed: 320kph
Agility:4 Initiative:+4 AC:15 AR:0 SI:9

25vl Std Chasis (25vl) 25cr
Controls(remote) 2.5vl 12.5cr
Saddle 10vl 25cr
Grav Drive(0.08DTU) 0.32vl 3840cr 0.08EP 8TH (320kph)
Agility 4 0.4EP
Fuel Cell 1vl 150cr (0.5EP) 0.075vl of H2/hr
Fuel Tank 7.5vl 100hrs
Cargo/Options/Waste 3.68vl
Totals 25/25vl 4052.5cr 0.48/.5EP for 100hrs Max Speed 320kph

Finally a grav vehicle affordable by the masses! And with a range to boot! I gonna Striker-ise this! And besides, MTU's Matriarchate would like these babies as an alternative to backpack manouvering units when working in Zero-G.