The Drifter (TL 9 space vessel) Copyright (c) 1996 by David Pidcock Designed by Rashad al-Amman to aid in his personal exploration of the stars the Drifter is a small space-vessel with the bare minimum of equipment, but a large amount of luxury fittings. Built with early TL 9 technology, it is not designed for atmospheric manuevers. Instead it holds a small 'space to surface' recon fighter for planetary movement. A small number of maintenance droids keeps the ship clean and running. Structure: TL9 50,000 cf LT body (Standard materials, HT 16200). Maximum Load 1250,000 lbs. Sealed Body, 2 full traverse Weapon mini-turrets (1 top, 1 bottom - 25cf each), 2 full traverse Ladar Sensor Turrets (1 Front, 1 Rear) - 30 cf each. 4 full traverse Multiscanner Sensor Mini-Turrets (Top Forward, Top Rear, Bottom Forward, Bottom Rear) - 10 cf each, 4 full traverse IR Jammer mini-turrets (Top left, Top right, Bottom Left, Bottom Right) - 5 cf each Propulsion: TL9 156.25 ton Reactionless Thrusters, experimental Hyper-Drive. Power: TL9 Fusion Power plant providing 160 MW. 75 MWh of rechargeable Energy bank. Accomodations: 10 Luxurious Roomy quarters (mass includes people and gear = 400lbs each) + 1 WombSeat concealed in a secret scan-shielded compartment (Pilot's seat). Accessories: 2 standard Airlocks, Full Life Support for up to 10 people (plus 2 backup systems of same capacity), an Automed table and SickBay, 5 Workshops (Mechanical, Armoury, Electrical, (al)Chemical and Magical), Basic IR Cloaking, Laser Sensors, ALLTV, 4 Radar Locators, Heavy Radar Jammer, Partial Stealth, 2 Ladar Sensors (in turrets see Structure), 4 LR-Multi-scanners (in mini-turrets see Structure), Virtual Panorama (for the Bridge, Top and Bottom Gunner Turrets and Womb-Seat), LR radio, Blue-Green Laser Tight-beam Communicator, Inertial Navigation System, 2 Main-frame Optical Computers (complexity 6 - one is a backup computer), 5 Dedicated Mini-Targeting Computers, Large Hangar for the G2S Recon Shuttle. Radiation Shielding, Headlights. Weaponry: 2 VLt C-PAWS, 2 Md Gatling Lasers (mounted 1 of each top and bottom in full-traversal Cyber-slave mini-turrets enabling near-instant coverage of each hemisphere). 4 IR Missile Jammers mounted in mini-turrets (see Strucutre). Cargo: 6,691 cf, 139,565 lbs Armor: PD 6, DR 225 on all locations inluding turrets. Statistics: Cost : $40,803,750, Size: +8, Radar +3, IR: +7, Acoustic: No sound in space. (Ladar Turrets are Size: +1, Radar: -4, IR: -4) Ground, Water, Air Performance: None Space Performance : Reactionless Thrusters put out 0.25 G. Hyperdrive is experimental... Main-frame stats: Complexity 6 Programs: Autonomous Operation (5)-> Tacticle Vehicle Operation (3) , Databases ($1000/gig). Datalink (1), Sensor Operation (2), Gunner (4), CIWS(2), Targeting (1), Expert Systems: Astrogation-12, Armoury(Starship Armour, Starship Weapons)-12, Electronics-11, Engineering (Reactionless Drives, Hyperdrive, Life Support)-11, Mechanic (Stardrive)-12,Metallurgy-11, Planetology-12