Re: Paladin Steel Storefront
Posted: Mon Mar 07, 2011 10:05 pm
I am humble by your work WOW!!!!
Ugly??? But they are so cute. As long as you are the one using them in squadron.
Nice work.
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Re: Paladin Steel Storefront
Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2011 1:51 am
Re: Paladin Steel Storefront
Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2011 4:28 pm
Thanks...I admit I'm still influenced by the works of Jim Burns, Peter Elson, Colin Haye, and Bob Layzell, to whom I was introduced in the old Spacecraft: 2000-2100 AD book. Ah, those were the days.
Re: Paladin Steel Storefront
Posted: Wed Mar 09, 2011 9:15 pm
Paladin Steel P900 ‘Armand’ PDW(Personal Defense Weapon)
“Quite a spread you got here set up for a cozy little conference! I was almost expecting your people to be dishing out MREs, but instead, this! A full buffet, spare ribs, collers of soft drinks and beer, full wait staff...what else have you got here I should know about?”
“In event of an emergency, the cooks are wearing light body armor, there’s a rack of vibroknives by the roast, the platters and tables are megadamage plate, there’s a case of shock-grenades in the bottom of the beer cooler, and the table with the beandip on it ahs a pair of P900 PDWs taped to the underside ready and loaded for use. “
“What the...?! You’re...you’re serious! Why the hell are you packing light machine guns to a peace conference?! Planning on ambushing the delegates?!!”
“No, sir, just being good hosts. Where we come from, we gotta expect the unexpected, and it would NOT look good on our record if the peace conference we were hosting got nixed and our guests harmed because we weren’t ready fro trouble! AS it is, sir, I wanted ion rifles, but anti-armor weapons in close quarters might tear up the building, so we compromised with the P900s and extra clips of heavy-damage ammo!”
“So compact that you almost forget you have it tucked up under your arm!”
Due to popular demand from some quarters of their consumer base, Paladin Steel revisited the PDW(personal defense weapon) classification for their next project. Though they already had a few very good weapons of the class(in the Calico Bushmaster cabine-conversion and LPPW-03 ‘Jasta’ Automatic Pistol, history-minded gun fanatics wanted something even more compact and concealable. To meet the challenge, PS developed the P900 ‘Armand’.
The Armand P900 draws heavily on the design of the pre-Rifts Belgian FN P.90, a bullpup-configuration weapon with a large capacity clip running along its top. Both the P.90 and the P900 use a small, but high-powered, 5.7x28mm round, rather than the more familiar 9mm format favored in SMGs.
PS has modified the weapon to be darn-near jam-proof with self-lubricating and dirt-repellent parts, and a rugged megadamage construction that insures that the weapon can fire reliably even after being trashed and dragged through muck. Other improvements include the availability of a Calico-style helical ‘tank’ magazine that seems to never run out of ammunition. PS has also provided a range of ammunition types for the Armand, including supercavitation rounds(used in conjunction with a water-seal muzzle fixture), exploding bullets, and tracer shot.
The advantages of the Armand PDW are compactness, light weight, easy handling, simple maintenance, and large ammunition capacity, making it especially attractive for close quarters combat and urban warfare applications.
The major disadvantages of the P900 Armand are short range(compared to full battle rifles and energy weapons), the poor availability of the 5.7mm round(9mm is far more common, given the number of weapons that chamber the standard), and the low weight of the round(it’s difficult to squeeze much modification in the way of ramjet propulsion or explosive heads into the comparatively tiny round).
MDC: 40
Weight: 6 lbs
Range: (Effective) 700 ft
(Maximum) 5,000 ft
Damage:(5.7x28mm round)
(SDC) 3d6+2 SDC per round and is +3 against A.R., at 700 ft or less, and 1d6 SDC out to maximum range
(Standard Wellington/ Exploders) 6d6 SDC per rd at 700 ft or less, 4d6 SDC out to 5,200 ft.
(PSX-2) 1d4 MD per rd, a three round burst does 2d6 MD at 800 ft or less, 1 MD per shot out to 5,200 ft.
(Tracer) One in every five rounds of a tracer clip has a luminescent flare base. This makes it easier to tarck the fall of shots, especially at night, giving a +1 to strike, but also back-points the shooter’s location.
(Can also chamber silver, super-cavitation, and other specialized ammunition types)
Rate of Fire: Standard
Payload: 10-, 20-, 50-, or 150-round clips
Special Features:
*Sight Rails(3, one top, one each side)---Can be fitted for a variety of sights, laser spots, and scopes.
*Corrosion-proof Construction
*Barrel Threading---The barrel is fully threaded for the attachment of silencers, flash hiders, barrel extensions, and pistol/rifle grenade launchers.
*Compact Bullpup Configuration---400mm/15.75 inches long
Cost: 6,000 credits for the rifle
Paladin Steel PSIR-12 ‘Cheven’ Ion SMG
“Okay, I just wanted to knock out the hovercar’s engine, not vaporize the whole vehicle!”
The PSIR-12 is the energy weapon ‘twin’ of the PS Armand P900 PDW; externally identical, but concealing a powerful ion pulse weapon. The PSIR-12 moves the top-mounted clip to the rear stock, though, and has slightly tougher construction(no moving parts). Still, from a distance, the weapon can be easily mistaken for the 5.7mm bullet-slinger, at least until it starts spitting ion bolts.
The PSIR-12 uses a reworked version of the workings of the PSIP-2 ‘Smasher’, with which it shares general performance, but has been modified to the new 2098-series enhanced weapon standard. The resulting weapon has improved anti-armor capability in a more compact package(400mm long as opposed to the PSIP-2’s 460mm).
The PSIR-12 has just started hitting the marketplace, but has already begun attracting attention in paramilitary circles. Though the GNE Regular Army has no plans to replace the more easily modified PSIP-2 in its service, the PSIR-12 has been adapted as the prefered ion weapon of the GNE Stelmarines, as the more compact design is easier to handle inside the cramped confines of spacecraft. The PSIR-12 earned its nickname ‘Cheven’ in Stelmarine service, after an Elven name for ‘firefly’, in reference to the glowing ion bolts occasionally manifested when the weapon is firing.
MDC: 45
Weight: 6 lbs
Range: 800 ft
Damage:4d6 MD single shot
1d4x10 MD per three-shot burst
On a Natural 20(Critical Strike) the ion weapon does TRIPLE damage instead of the normal double damage
Rate of Fire: Standard
Payload: 30 shots short e-clip, 60 shots long-eclip, 100 shots canister e-clip
Special Features:
*Sight Rails(3, one top, one each side)---Can be fitted for a variety of sights, laser spots, and scopes.
*Corrosion-proof Construction
*Compact Bullpup Configuration---400mm/15.75 inches long
Cost: 27,000 credits for the rifle
Options:
The ‘Cheven’ is fully compatible with the full range of ion weapon modification modules available to the PSIP-12, but the ‘snub nose’ design makes some modules more difficult to swap on quickly, while the three mounting rails make the adding of laser sights and flashlight options much more easy to accomplish.
Note: It takes a person with the Weapons Engineer skill a successful roll and about 8 minutes to install and test one of the following modules, those with the Armorer/Field Armorer skill about 20 minutes, and someone following the printed instructions about 40-50 to install/swap modules.
*Ion Scatter-Shot Module---This is a barrel clip-on that turns the PSIR-12 into a short range shotgun with an area of effect blast. Reduce range to 400 ft, but does 4d6 MD to a 10 ft wide area. Critical damage is unaffected. Cost: 5,000 credits
*Ion Booster Module---Another barrel attachment that boosts the range of the ion bolts, albeit with a small reduction in damage capability. Reduce damage to 3d6 MD, but boost range to 1,500 ft. Critical damage is unaffected. Cost: 7,000 credits
*Ion Focal Booster Module---Aka ‘Puncher’---This barrel attachment improves the focus of the ion pulse density, improving damage at the cost of range. Reduce range to 400 ft, but up damage to 5d6 MD per shot. Note, however, that the weapon also suffers sharp ‘kickup’ giving it a -1 to strike, when fired single-handed; a foregrip for two-handed bracing is recommended(and provided as part of the kit). Critical damage is unaffected. Cost: 5,000 credits.
*Laser Sight Module---Another under/sidebarrel attachment, this consists of an improved laser sight that adds a bonus to strike, but the laser also creates a temporary ‘guidepath’ of disturbed/ionized air that slightly improves the striking power of the ion bolts. +2 to Strike, and +3 to damage per bolt. This can be used in conjunction with the other barrel attachments, but added damage is reduced to +2 MD. Critical damage is unaffected. Cost: 1,000 credits
*Ion Step-Down Module---This barrel attachment, rather than increase range or power, actually ‘steps down’ the power of ion bolts into the SDC range, and modulates their effect, making the weapon in effect a ‘super-taser’(albeit it with flash-burns). An added power regulation chip allows the weapon to use less power in SDC mode. CAN be used in conjunction with the the Laser Sight Module. Switching between MD/SDC modes takes 2 actions. Popular with urban security and police units. Critical damage does NOT apply, as the aim is to deliberately downscale damage.
Range:(SDC shots) 600 ft
Damage: 1d6 SDC shock-burn. Plus, victims must make a save of 14 or better, or be -8 to strike, parry, and dodge for 2d6 melees. A savings throw versus non-lethal poison means the person is unimpaired. 25% chance of knocking out unshielded cybernetics for 1d4 melees.
Payload: One MD shot equals 10 SDC shots
Cost: 4,000 credits
Paladin Steel PSPBW-12 ‘Genna’ Light Particle Pulse Rifle
“The Genna’s a real pleasure to shoot; no recoil, even in burst mode, and you can even fire it one-handed. Lightweight, too; no wrestling a big accelerator tube around onto the target. Of course, if you’re expecting the usual cannonade damage curve of other PBCs, you’re gonna be disappointed, and constant pulse fire still eats up e-clips even with the better efficiency from the PS superconductors. It sorta demotes the particle beam from being the damage-hog of a squad to being just another field-rifle. On the other hand, somebody carrying one of these isn’t going to draw extra fire from the opposition because somebody saw a bloody handcannon being carried in. “
The PSPBW-12 is an experiment in creating a pulse-fire particle beam weapon.
Looking externally very much like the pre-Rifts FAMAS battle rifle, the PSPBW-12 has
The Genna does relatively low damage single shot for a particle beam rifle, but has a three-shot burst mode that can do serious damage. The weapon itself is lightweight and compact, is incredibly sturdy, and has a bullpup configuration that’s attractive to urban forces and space-based organizations.
The concept of a light particle pulse weapon has come under some criticism, however; the general consensus being that the main advantage in particle weapons is their ability to deliver single-shot heavy damage. LPPBWs, on the other hand, can only accomplish this through less accurate pulse fire with a general diminishment in the overall effectiveness of each individual shot in a pulse. Advocates counter that the lower-power shots are more energy efficient and that the pulse mode, while admittedly delivering less point damage than a single supercharged shot, actually spread the damage over a slightly larger area(due to slight barrel drift during pulse-fire), increasing the impect on the target. Only time and field experience will tell if the advocates are right about LPPBWs and Paladin Steel is gambling that they are, having started mass-marketing the PSPBW-12.
The PSPBW-121 hasn’t been adopted by the GNE Armed Forces in any great number, but is appearing in the ranks of the Irregulars, and reportedly the Stelmarines have been looking at the weapon as a possible weapon for the growing numbers of space station garrison troops. The Genna is also available through Paladin Steel and Aegis Stellar Industries.
MDC of Rifle: 50
Weight: 7.9 lbs
Range: 1,500 ft
Damage: 5d6 MD single shot, 1d6x10+20 MD per triple shot burst
Rate of Fire: Single shot of three-shot burst, ECHH
Payload: 15 shots from a standard e-clip, 30 shots from a long E-Clip, 55 shots from an E-canister
Special Features:
*Integral Carrying Handle
*Top Sight Rail
Cost: 21,000 credits
“Quite a spread you got here set up for a cozy little conference! I was almost expecting your people to be dishing out MREs, but instead, this! A full buffet, spare ribs, collers of soft drinks and beer, full wait staff...what else have you got here I should know about?”
“In event of an emergency, the cooks are wearing light body armor, there’s a rack of vibroknives by the roast, the platters and tables are megadamage plate, there’s a case of shock-grenades in the bottom of the beer cooler, and the table with the beandip on it ahs a pair of P900 PDWs taped to the underside ready and loaded for use. “
“What the...?! You’re...you’re serious! Why the hell are you packing light machine guns to a peace conference?! Planning on ambushing the delegates?!!”
“No, sir, just being good hosts. Where we come from, we gotta expect the unexpected, and it would NOT look good on our record if the peace conference we were hosting got nixed and our guests harmed because we weren’t ready fro trouble! AS it is, sir, I wanted ion rifles, but anti-armor weapons in close quarters might tear up the building, so we compromised with the P900s and extra clips of heavy-damage ammo!”
“So compact that you almost forget you have it tucked up under your arm!”
Due to popular demand from some quarters of their consumer base, Paladin Steel revisited the PDW(personal defense weapon) classification for their next project. Though they already had a few very good weapons of the class(in the Calico Bushmaster cabine-conversion and LPPW-03 ‘Jasta’ Automatic Pistol, history-minded gun fanatics wanted something even more compact and concealable. To meet the challenge, PS developed the P900 ‘Armand’.
The Armand P900 draws heavily on the design of the pre-Rifts Belgian FN P.90, a bullpup-configuration weapon with a large capacity clip running along its top. Both the P.90 and the P900 use a small, but high-powered, 5.7x28mm round, rather than the more familiar 9mm format favored in SMGs.
PS has modified the weapon to be darn-near jam-proof with self-lubricating and dirt-repellent parts, and a rugged megadamage construction that insures that the weapon can fire reliably even after being trashed and dragged through muck. Other improvements include the availability of a Calico-style helical ‘tank’ magazine that seems to never run out of ammunition. PS has also provided a range of ammunition types for the Armand, including supercavitation rounds(used in conjunction with a water-seal muzzle fixture), exploding bullets, and tracer shot.
The advantages of the Armand PDW are compactness, light weight, easy handling, simple maintenance, and large ammunition capacity, making it especially attractive for close quarters combat and urban warfare applications.
The major disadvantages of the P900 Armand are short range(compared to full battle rifles and energy weapons), the poor availability of the 5.7mm round(9mm is far more common, given the number of weapons that chamber the standard), and the low weight of the round(it’s difficult to squeeze much modification in the way of ramjet propulsion or explosive heads into the comparatively tiny round).
MDC: 40
Weight: 6 lbs
Range: (Effective) 700 ft
(Maximum) 5,000 ft
Damage:(5.7x28mm round)
(SDC) 3d6+2 SDC per round and is +3 against A.R., at 700 ft or less, and 1d6 SDC out to maximum range
(Standard Wellington/ Exploders) 6d6 SDC per rd at 700 ft or less, 4d6 SDC out to 5,200 ft.
(PSX-2) 1d4 MD per rd, a three round burst does 2d6 MD at 800 ft or less, 1 MD per shot out to 5,200 ft.
(Tracer) One in every five rounds of a tracer clip has a luminescent flare base. This makes it easier to tarck the fall of shots, especially at night, giving a +1 to strike, but also back-points the shooter’s location.
(Can also chamber silver, super-cavitation, and other specialized ammunition types)
Rate of Fire: Standard
Payload: 10-, 20-, 50-, or 150-round clips
Special Features:
*Sight Rails(3, one top, one each side)---Can be fitted for a variety of sights, laser spots, and scopes.
*Corrosion-proof Construction
*Barrel Threading---The barrel is fully threaded for the attachment of silencers, flash hiders, barrel extensions, and pistol/rifle grenade launchers.
*Compact Bullpup Configuration---400mm/15.75 inches long
Cost: 6,000 credits for the rifle
Paladin Steel PSIR-12 ‘Cheven’ Ion SMG
“Okay, I just wanted to knock out the hovercar’s engine, not vaporize the whole vehicle!”
The PSIR-12 is the energy weapon ‘twin’ of the PS Armand P900 PDW; externally identical, but concealing a powerful ion pulse weapon. The PSIR-12 moves the top-mounted clip to the rear stock, though, and has slightly tougher construction(no moving parts). Still, from a distance, the weapon can be easily mistaken for the 5.7mm bullet-slinger, at least until it starts spitting ion bolts.
The PSIR-12 uses a reworked version of the workings of the PSIP-2 ‘Smasher’, with which it shares general performance, but has been modified to the new 2098-series enhanced weapon standard. The resulting weapon has improved anti-armor capability in a more compact package(400mm long as opposed to the PSIP-2’s 460mm).
The PSIR-12 has just started hitting the marketplace, but has already begun attracting attention in paramilitary circles. Though the GNE Regular Army has no plans to replace the more easily modified PSIP-2 in its service, the PSIR-12 has been adapted as the prefered ion weapon of the GNE Stelmarines, as the more compact design is easier to handle inside the cramped confines of spacecraft. The PSIR-12 earned its nickname ‘Cheven’ in Stelmarine service, after an Elven name for ‘firefly’, in reference to the glowing ion bolts occasionally manifested when the weapon is firing.
MDC: 45
Weight: 6 lbs
Range: 800 ft
Damage:4d6 MD single shot
1d4x10 MD per three-shot burst
On a Natural 20(Critical Strike) the ion weapon does TRIPLE damage instead of the normal double damage
Rate of Fire: Standard
Payload: 30 shots short e-clip, 60 shots long-eclip, 100 shots canister e-clip
Special Features:
*Sight Rails(3, one top, one each side)---Can be fitted for a variety of sights, laser spots, and scopes.
*Corrosion-proof Construction
*Compact Bullpup Configuration---400mm/15.75 inches long
Cost: 27,000 credits for the rifle
Options:
The ‘Cheven’ is fully compatible with the full range of ion weapon modification modules available to the PSIP-12, but the ‘snub nose’ design makes some modules more difficult to swap on quickly, while the three mounting rails make the adding of laser sights and flashlight options much more easy to accomplish.
Note: It takes a person with the Weapons Engineer skill a successful roll and about 8 minutes to install and test one of the following modules, those with the Armorer/Field Armorer skill about 20 minutes, and someone following the printed instructions about 40-50 to install/swap modules.
*Ion Scatter-Shot Module---This is a barrel clip-on that turns the PSIR-12 into a short range shotgun with an area of effect blast. Reduce range to 400 ft, but does 4d6 MD to a 10 ft wide area. Critical damage is unaffected. Cost: 5,000 credits
*Ion Booster Module---Another barrel attachment that boosts the range of the ion bolts, albeit with a small reduction in damage capability. Reduce damage to 3d6 MD, but boost range to 1,500 ft. Critical damage is unaffected. Cost: 7,000 credits
*Ion Focal Booster Module---Aka ‘Puncher’---This barrel attachment improves the focus of the ion pulse density, improving damage at the cost of range. Reduce range to 400 ft, but up damage to 5d6 MD per shot. Note, however, that the weapon also suffers sharp ‘kickup’ giving it a -1 to strike, when fired single-handed; a foregrip for two-handed bracing is recommended(and provided as part of the kit). Critical damage is unaffected. Cost: 5,000 credits.
*Laser Sight Module---Another under/sidebarrel attachment, this consists of an improved laser sight that adds a bonus to strike, but the laser also creates a temporary ‘guidepath’ of disturbed/ionized air that slightly improves the striking power of the ion bolts. +2 to Strike, and +3 to damage per bolt. This can be used in conjunction with the other barrel attachments, but added damage is reduced to +2 MD. Critical damage is unaffected. Cost: 1,000 credits
*Ion Step-Down Module---This barrel attachment, rather than increase range or power, actually ‘steps down’ the power of ion bolts into the SDC range, and modulates their effect, making the weapon in effect a ‘super-taser’(albeit it with flash-burns). An added power regulation chip allows the weapon to use less power in SDC mode. CAN be used in conjunction with the the Laser Sight Module. Switching between MD/SDC modes takes 2 actions. Popular with urban security and police units. Critical damage does NOT apply, as the aim is to deliberately downscale damage.
Range:(SDC shots) 600 ft
Damage: 1d6 SDC shock-burn. Plus, victims must make a save of 14 or better, or be -8 to strike, parry, and dodge for 2d6 melees. A savings throw versus non-lethal poison means the person is unimpaired. 25% chance of knocking out unshielded cybernetics for 1d4 melees.
Payload: One MD shot equals 10 SDC shots
Cost: 4,000 credits
Paladin Steel PSPBW-12 ‘Genna’ Light Particle Pulse Rifle
“The Genna’s a real pleasure to shoot; no recoil, even in burst mode, and you can even fire it one-handed. Lightweight, too; no wrestling a big accelerator tube around onto the target. Of course, if you’re expecting the usual cannonade damage curve of other PBCs, you’re gonna be disappointed, and constant pulse fire still eats up e-clips even with the better efficiency from the PS superconductors. It sorta demotes the particle beam from being the damage-hog of a squad to being just another field-rifle. On the other hand, somebody carrying one of these isn’t going to draw extra fire from the opposition because somebody saw a bloody handcannon being carried in. “
The PSPBW-12 is an experiment in creating a pulse-fire particle beam weapon.
Looking externally very much like the pre-Rifts FAMAS battle rifle, the PSPBW-12 has
The Genna does relatively low damage single shot for a particle beam rifle, but has a three-shot burst mode that can do serious damage. The weapon itself is lightweight and compact, is incredibly sturdy, and has a bullpup configuration that’s attractive to urban forces and space-based organizations.
The concept of a light particle pulse weapon has come under some criticism, however; the general consensus being that the main advantage in particle weapons is their ability to deliver single-shot heavy damage. LPPBWs, on the other hand, can only accomplish this through less accurate pulse fire with a general diminishment in the overall effectiveness of each individual shot in a pulse. Advocates counter that the lower-power shots are more energy efficient and that the pulse mode, while admittedly delivering less point damage than a single supercharged shot, actually spread the damage over a slightly larger area(due to slight barrel drift during pulse-fire), increasing the impect on the target. Only time and field experience will tell if the advocates are right about LPPBWs and Paladin Steel is gambling that they are, having started mass-marketing the PSPBW-12.
The PSPBW-121 hasn’t been adopted by the GNE Armed Forces in any great number, but is appearing in the ranks of the Irregulars, and reportedly the Stelmarines have been looking at the weapon as a possible weapon for the growing numbers of space station garrison troops. The Genna is also available through Paladin Steel and Aegis Stellar Industries.
MDC of Rifle: 50
Weight: 7.9 lbs
Range: 1,500 ft
Damage: 5d6 MD single shot, 1d6x10+20 MD per triple shot burst
Rate of Fire: Single shot of three-shot burst, ECHH
Payload: 15 shots from a standard e-clip, 30 shots from a long E-Clip, 55 shots from an E-canister
Special Features:
*Integral Carrying Handle
*Top Sight Rail
Cost: 21,000 credits
Re: Paladin Steel Storefront
Posted: Thu Mar 10, 2011 9:54 am
Thanks, look nice reading them now. More please.
Re: Paladin Steel Storefront
Posted: Thu Mar 10, 2011 3:46 pm
abtex wrote:Thanks, look nice reading them now. More please.
I'll see what I can come up with for outfitting your personal armies, security details, or (liberating) hordes.
Re: Paladin Steel Storefront
Posted: Thu Mar 10, 2011 4:14 pm
I just want them because they is cute. Next to a short barrel shotgun, they said "Please. Now." so nicely.
Re: Paladin Steel Storefront
Posted: Thu Mar 10, 2011 4:21 pm
abtex wrote:I just want them because they is cute. Next to a short barrel shotgun, they said "Please. Now." so nicely.
"Please. Now. Make My Day?"
And yes, anything you can easily hide under a trenchcoat and tape to the underside of a table, and that has rapid-fire...great for dealing with would-be terrorists and assassins(ignoring for the moment that such weapons could also be used BY terrorists and assassins).
Re: Paladin Steel Storefront
Posted: Thu Mar 10, 2011 4:30 pm
Line from Adams family second movie, Wednesday asking Uncle [baldy and fat] for something at breakfast table.
Re: Paladin Steel Storefront
Posted: Sat Mar 12, 2011 10:06 am
Posted: 30 Jul 2008
Did you get any ideas from the two books? On your 2 year field 'day'.
Just wondering, found posting while looking for something else.
taalismn wrote:yooowwww...just picked up Bill Rose and Tony Butler's Secret Projects: Flying Saucer Aircraft and Robert Godwin's The Lunar Exploration Scrapbook:A Pictorial History of Lunar Vehicles through Amazon.com...both chock full of prototype hardware, design studies, proposals, and prototypes...Going to be having a field day looking through the stuff...reality tends to be crazier than than fiction anyway...
Did you get any ideas from the two books? On your 2 year field 'day'.
Just wondering, found posting while looking for something else.Re: Paladin Steel Storefront
Posted: Sat Mar 12, 2011 10:09 am
abtex wrote:Posted: 30 Jul 2008taalismn wrote:yooowwww...just picked up Bill Rose and Tony Butler's Secret Projects: Flying Saucer Aircraft and Robert Godwin's The Lunar Exploration Scrapbook:A Pictorial History of Lunar Vehicles through Amazon.com...both chock full of prototype hardware, design studies, proposals, and prototypes...Going to be having a field day looking through the stuff...reality tends to be crazier than than fiction anyway...
Did you get any ideas from the two books? On your 2 year field 'day'.
Sorry, Abtex...so many projects, plus I picked up extra work hours(guy's gotta eat, after all!)....gotta work on some of those older projects before the inspiration conks out.
Re: Paladin Steel Storefront
Posted: Sat Mar 12, 2011 10:21 am
"Ok. step 1 - release programmed Nantes into storage bunker. step 2- Wait and watch for the fun to start."
"Fred, Did you open the tubes?"
"Why?"
"Because your ammo is ALIVE!! IT'S crawlling all over you and some of it flying around, looking for a target like me."
Bang. Pow. Boom.
"Warning of label of open tube. Check user IQ before sale. Have personal 'Friend and Foe' system updated before opening. "
Steampunk Ammunition Insects
Home galley for them
"Fred, Did you open the tubes?"
"Why?"
"Because your ammo is ALIVE!! IT'S crawlling all over you and some of it flying around, looking for a target like me."
Bang. Pow. Boom.
"Warning of label of open tube. Check user IQ before sale. Have personal 'Friend and Foe' system updated before opening. "
Steampunk Ammunition Insects
Home galley for them
Re: Paladin Steel Storefront
Posted: Sat Mar 12, 2011 10:26 am
taalismn wrote:abtex wrote:Posted: 30 Jul 2008taalismn wrote:yooowwww...just picked up Bill Rose and Tony Butler's Secret Projects: Flying Saucer Aircraft and Robert Godwin's The Lunar Exploration Scrapbook:A Pictorial History of Lunar Vehicles through Amazon.com...both chock full of prototype hardware, design studies, proposals, and prototypes...Going to be having a field day looking through the stuff...reality tends to be crazier than than fiction anyway...
Did you get any ideas from the two books? On your 2 year field 'day'.
Sorry, Abtex...so many projects, plus I picked up extra work hours(guy's gotta eat, after all!)....gotta work on some of those older projects before the inspiration conks out.
Ok. Waiting a little longer.
Inspiration on projects older than 2 years conks out?!?!?
As long as you are working on old stuff. Do any of your books have anything on a post? WW2 Brit fighter called 'Martin-Baker MB.6' may also be called 'Boar'
Re: Paladin Steel Storefront
Posted: Sat Mar 12, 2011 11:35 am
abtex wrote:[
Ok. Waiting a little longer.
Inspiration on projects older than 2 years conks out?!?!?
As long as you are working on old stuff. Do any of your books have anything on a post? WW2 Brit fighter called 'Martin-Baker MB.6' may also be called 'Boar'[/quote]
Yeah...sometimes something that hits me like a flash, or I see as a necessary part of developing a bigger story/product line gets bogged down because I need to come up with entirely new rules/systems for it, and the inspiration for the details comes hard...Also, I have to make sure I'm not re-inventing the wheel by coming up with an entirely new vehicle to fill a slot that an existing design already does(maybe even cheaper and better). That can kill a project.
On the other hand, sitting on something for a while, while working on other things stuff I came up for those I realize can apply to a stymied older project, and suddenly I realize it's a perfect fit...Case in point; I'd been struggling with PS spacecraft for five years and suddenly it all came together when I finally got a clear idea of what the ships should 'look' like.....With that distinctive look and 'feel', I could finally finish them.
So sitting on something for a while doesn't necessarily kill the project; it may let it mature properly, or let other developments catch up to it. Just like in real life technological and business development.
Hmm....the Martin-Baker design reminds me of an American design called the 'Eagle' (might have been a late WW2 Curtiss design) which had a similar look and configuration...depending on who you ask, it was either a promising long range escort desigh that failed to mature before the end of the war...or it was a 'bitzer' that was conceived to keep the developer's factories from being taken over by Boeing and used to build other designs).
Correction: It's the Fisher Eagle:
http://www.military-aircraft.org.uk/ww2-fighter-planes/fisher-p-75a-eagle.htm
Re: Paladin Steel Storefront
Posted: Sat Mar 12, 2011 10:56 pm
Slow cooking instead of flash frying ideas works.
Thinking about MB.6 and the Eagle, link answered a couple questions about MB.6. Opened a path or two of ideas as well.
Thanks.
Thinking about MB.6 and the Eagle, link answered a couple questions about MB.6. Opened a path or two of ideas as well.
Thanks.
Re: Paladin Steel Storefront
Posted: Sun Mar 13, 2011 7:24 pm
abtex wrote:Slow cooking instead of flash frying ideas works.
Thinking about MB.6 and the Eagle, link answered a couple questions about MB.6. Opened a path or two of ideas as well.
Thanks.
Hey, I like odd aircraft too. Glad I could oblige a fellow tech-nut.
Re: Paladin Steel Storefront
Posted: Mon Mar 14, 2011 1:52 am
taalismn wrote:abtex wrote:Slow cooking instead of flash frying ideas works.
Thinking about MB.6 and the Eagle, link answered a couple questions about MB.6. Opened a path or two of ideas as well.
Thanks.
Hey, I like odd aircraft too. Glad I could oblige a fellow tech-nut.
Go to http://thexhs.deviantart.com/gallery/ and take a look if not already.
Cracking the nut and getting to the meat. Then letting stay look like it should be is my problem. Staying inside the box that should be the plane or vehicle, is so hard. the basic plane in this case mixed with 21sin Tech, Rifts', add a little DBee knowhow to it then update the mix to make a survivable vehicle before something else catches my eye and my braincell wants to work on that. And it all starts over.
Re: Paladin Steel Storefront
Posted: Mon Mar 14, 2011 5:35 pm
Don't forget to factor in the Rule of Cool, either . That has an impact on RPG stuff. Otherwise we'd be flying/driving around in bland little boxes.
. That has an impact on RPG stuff. Otherwise we'd be flying/driving around in bland little boxes.Re: Paladin Steel Storefront
Posted: Mon Mar 14, 2011 8:23 pm
abtex wrote:taalismn wrote:abtex wrote:Slow cooking instead of flash frying ideas works.
Thinking about MB.6 and the Eagle, link answered a couple questions about MB.6. Opened a path or two of ideas as well.
Thanks.
Hey, I like odd aircraft too. Glad I could oblige a fellow tech-nut.
Go to http://thexhs.deviantart.com/gallery/ and take a look if not already.
Cracking the nut and getting to the meat. Then letting stay look like it should be is my problem. Staying inside the box that should be the plane or vehicle, is so hard. the basic plane in this case mixed with 21sin Tech, Rifts', add a little DBee knowhow to it then update the mix to make a survivable vehicle before something else catches my eye and my braincell wants to work on that. And it all starts over.
in got permission to use this art working for NAAT and other mec units like air super something got to look it up !!!!any Ideas let me know
i am just a rookie hereRe: Paladin Steel Storefront
Posted: Mon Mar 14, 2011 8:43 pm
ZINO wrote:[in got permission to use this art working for NAAT and other mec units like air super something got to look it up !!!!any Ideas let me know
Good for you. I see also you're picking up some fans over there, so you're graduating past rookie.
Re: Paladin Steel Storefront
Posted: Mon Mar 14, 2011 11:04 pm
taalismn wrote:ZINO wrote:[in got permission to use this art working for NAAT and other mec units like air super something got to look it up !!!!any Ideas let me know
Good for you. I see also you're picking up some fans over there, so you're graduating past rookie.
fan huh ?where ?I how that happen ?
you should have fans not me I am not you like
your a professional like you man I am just a rookie
Re: Paladin Steel Storefront
Posted: Tue Mar 15, 2011 12:37 am
ZINO wrote:abtex wrote:Go to http://thexhs.deviantart.com/gallery/ and take a look if not already.
in got permission to use this art working for NAAT and other mec units like air super something got to look it up !!!!any Ideas let me know
You have permission to use theXHS's art work? Or that you trying to get it?
Re: Paladin Steel Storefront
Posted: Tue Mar 15, 2011 6:15 am
ZINO you ask for some different versions of PS ‘Cactus’ Air Defense Vehicle back 2 or 3 pages ago. This may have what you want.
Meles ("Badger") Air Defense Vehicle is close to your picture, I think.
For this one you can just about mix and match. Take a tracked chassis and put a mini gun turret on it and you have your picture, T249 Vigilante.
ZINO wrote:you need this ???
http://imgcash3.imageshack.us/img39/228 ... rotale.jpg
Meles ("Badger") Air Defense Vehicle is close to your picture, I think.
ZINO wrote:or this ONE
http://i631.photobucket.com/albums/uu38 ... ilante.jpg
For this one you can just about mix and match. Take a tracked chassis and put a mini gun turret on it and you have your picture, T249 Vigilante.
Re: Paladin Steel Storefront
Posted: Tue Mar 15, 2011 6:56 am
abtex wrote:ZINO wrote:abtex wrote:Go to http://thexhs.deviantart.com/gallery/ and take a look if not already.
in got permission to use this art working for NAAT and other mec units like air super something got to look it up !!!!any Ideas let me know
You have permission to use theXHS's art work? Or that you trying to get it?
I ask he OK with it
did i dont something wrong ...sorry
Re: Paladin Steel Storefront
Posted: Tue Mar 15, 2011 6:57 am
abtex wrote:ZINO you ask for some different versions of PS ‘Cactus’ Air Defense Vehicle back 2 or 3 pages ago. This may have what you want.ZINO wrote:you need this ???
http://imgcash3.imageshack.us/img39/228 ... rotale.jpg
Meles ("Badger") Air Defense Vehicle is close to your picture, I think.ZINO wrote:or this ONE
http://i631.photobucket.com/albums/uu38 ... ilante.jpg
For this one you can just about mix and match. Take a tracked chassis and put a mini gun turret on it and you have your picture, T249 Vigilante.
nice!!!!
Re: Paladin Steel Storefront
Posted: Tue Mar 15, 2011 11:05 am
ZINO wrote:abtex wrote:ZINO wrote:abtex wrote:Go to http://thexhs.deviantart.com/gallery/ and take a look if not already.
in got permission to use this art working for NAAT and other mec units like air super something got to look it up !!!!any Ideas let me know
You have permission to use theXHS's art work? Or that you trying to get it?
I ask he OK with it
did i dont something wrong ...sorry
Just tired and did not understand what had been written. You did not do anything wrong, just me.
theXHS does great work. I will print off one of his planes and look at it for ideas.
Will try to give you a short list of thoughts on his work, if that's OK?
Re: Paladin Steel Storefront
Posted: Tue Mar 15, 2011 4:03 pm
abtex wrote:ZINO wrote:abtex wrote:ZINO wrote:abtex wrote:Go to http://thexhs.deviantart.com/gallery/ and take a look if not already.
in got permission to use this art working for NAAT and other mec units like air super something got to look it up !!!!any Ideas let me know
You have permission to use theXHS's art work? Or that you trying to get it?
I ask he OK with it
did i dont something wrong ...sorry
Just tired and did not understand what had been written. You did not do anything wrong, just me.
theXHS does great work. I will print off one of his planes and look at it for ideas.
Will try to give you a short list of thoughts on his work, if that's OK?
love to see, read any ideas etc
i am humble by you words
Re: Paladin Steel Storefront
Posted: Tue Mar 15, 2011 5:34 pm
ZINO wrote:taalismn wrote:ZINO wrote:[in got permission to use this art working for NAAT and other mec units like air super something got to look it up !!!!any Ideas let me know
Good for you. I see also you're picking up some fans over there, so you're graduating past rookie.
fan huh ?where ?I how that happen ?
you should have fans not me I am not you like
your a professional like you man I am just a rookie
ZINO...if I was professional, I'd be getting PAID for this. Dial back the grovelling, please?
Re: Paladin Steel Storefront
Posted: Tue Mar 15, 2011 11:14 pm
taalismn wrote:...if I was professional, I'd be getting PAID for this.
Most of us give you are two cents worth on your works, for that's worth after taxes.
Re: Paladin Steel Storefront
Posted: Tue Mar 15, 2011 11:26 pm
Does anyone remember where the background for PS was in this enormous thread?
Re: Paladin Steel Storefront
Posted: Wed Mar 16, 2011 12:59 am
Veritas476 wrote:Does anyone remember where the background for PS was in this enormous thread?
sorta scattered all over. hang on a sec...
Post 1
Post 2
Post 3
Post 4
Post 5
Post 6
that's all my indexed stuff so far
just go to those posts, click on the stuff you want to read, and there you go
it doesn't include everything completely up-to-date though...
Re: Paladin Steel Storefront
Posted: Wed Mar 16, 2011 6:47 am
taalismn wrote:ZINO wrote:taalismn wrote:ZINO wrote:[in got permission to use this art working for NAAT and other mec units like air super something got to look it up !!!!any Ideas let me know
Good for you. I see also you're picking up some fans over there, so you're graduating past rookie.
fan huh ?where ?I how that happen ?
you should have fans not me I am not you like
your a professional like you man I am just a rookie
ZINO...if I was professional, I'd be getting PAID for this. Dial back the grovelling, please?
sorry just show respect and kindness your are IMHO very good and should BE rifter material here
Re: Paladin Steel Storefront
Posted: Wed Mar 16, 2011 1:34 pm
Veritas476 wrote:Does anyone remember where the background for PS was in this enormous thread?
taalismn loves the word 'history'
Post 6 has
Paladin Steel Officers and Divisions: in it
But there is a history on that starts here and goes for 3 or 4 postings
Re: Paladin Steel Storefront
Posted: Wed Mar 16, 2011 1:53 pm
Sorry I haven't been posting much of late..1) My work schedule's been busy, 2) I've been concentrating, for the moment, on my Shemarrian Star Nation material(don't worry, though, they're nominally allied with the GNE, so they're SORT of related).
Thank you all for the continuing support; I'll work to reciprocate it.
Thank you all for the continuing support; I'll work to reciprocate it.
Re: Paladin Steel Storefront
Posted: Wed Mar 16, 2011 2:06 pm
Shark_Force wrote:that's all my indexed stuff so far
just go to those posts, click on the stuff you want to read, and there you go
it doesn't include everything completely up-to-date though...
Things to fix if possible
Post 2 middle of it
[url=http://forums.palladium-megaverse.com/viewtopic.php?p=1804650#p1804650]Special Cybernetics/Bionics Systems:
'Borg TW Systems
[/url]
Post 4 last enter
[url=http://forums.palladium-megaverse.com/viewtopic.php?p=2049977#p2049977]Paladin Steel Fubuki (II)-class Destroyer[/url
I think that you are missing viewtopic.php?p=2199152#p2199152
Waiting for Post 7 and maybe 8
Re: Paladin Steel Storefront
Posted: Thu Mar 17, 2011 12:52 pm
abtex wrote:Shark_Force wrote:that's all my indexed stuff so far
just go to those posts, click on the stuff you want to read, and there you go
it doesn't include everything completely up-to-date though...
Things to fix if possible
Post 2 middle of it
[url=http://forums.palladium-megaverse.com/viewtopic.php?p=1804650#p1804650]Special Cybernetics/Bionics Systems:
'Borg TW Systems
[/url]
Post 4 last enter
[url=http://forums.palladium-megaverse.com/viewtopic.php?p=2049977#p2049977]Paladin Steel Fubuki (II)-class Destroyer[/url
I think that you are missing viewtopic.php?p=2199152#p2199152
Waiting for Post 7 and maybe 8
what specifically needs fixing?
edit: hmmm... you're right about missing post 7 and 8 (8 only has a handful of links in it atm). i'll have to go back and get that...
also, it looks like you're saying i've missed those entries? guess i'll have to go back and fir them in =S
bah, so little time, so much to do
Re: Paladin Steel Storefront
Posted: Thu Mar 17, 2011 2:28 pm
Shark_Force wrote:abtex wrote:Shark_Force wrote:that's all my indexed stuff so far
just go to those posts, click on the stuff you want to read, and there you go
it doesn't include everything completely up-to-date though...
Things to fix if possible
Post 2 middle of it
[url=http://forums.palladium-megaverse.com/viewtopic.php?p=1804650#p1804650]Special Cybernetics/Bionics Systems:
'Borg TW Systems
[/url]
Post 4 last enter
[url=http://forums.palladium-megaverse.com/viewtopic.php?p=2049977#p2049977]Paladin Steel Fubuki (II)-class Destroyer[/url
>>> I think that you are missing --->> http://forums.palladium-megaverse.com/viewtopic.php?p=2199152#p2199152 <<---
also, it looks like you're saying i've missed those entries? guess i'll have to go back and fir them in =S
The last item of the 3 is taalismn's first history of PS is what is missing, the link is above just needs to be added and titled
The two bold items above are what specifically needs fixing. that is the way they appear is the Posts 2 and 4. The first need '/' between Cybernetics and Bionics changed to '\' and the ':' changed to ' - ' to work. Tried several times to get it right. The second is missing it's ending ']' on the [/url]. The way they are now they cannot link to their posting.
Special Cybernetics\Bionics Systems - 'Borg TW Systems
Paladin Steel Fubuki (II)-class Destroyer
Re: Paladin Steel Storefront
Posted: Thu Mar 17, 2011 7:45 pm
Paladin Steel Brunel Heavy DeepSpace Tug
http://www.wired.com/images/article/full/2008/08/daedalus_starship_630px.jpg
http://privat.bahnhof.se/wb671350/graphics/daedalusLayout.jpg
http://i408.photobucket.com/albums/pp164/taalismn/Brunel.jpg
“We’re pushing a load of ten battle-ring satellites this run out to the outer colonies. That’s like pushing a battleship with our foreheads, but the farther out we get, the easier it goes, until we can get to a good jump point and we can engage our Fast-Drive. If Nav’s done its job right, it’s all down the gravity well from there at our destination!””
“Wow! When I heard that I was being transferred to Engineering Command and a Fleet tender I wasn’t expecting to be cruising aboard such gunboat! Look at all those weapons!”
“You’d think that, wouldn’t you? Well, don’t get used to serving on a pocket battleship! Those guns are only one-ways; we’ll have them only for as long as it takes us to rendevouz with the VFSS Manhatten, dismount the weapons from their carry-modules, and install them aboard her. We’ll be returning without them, hoping we don’t run into any Arkies on the way. Fortunately, we’ll be traveling a lot lighter and faster, though.”
“It may not be able to outrun you, and it might not be able to soak up a lot of punishment, but if it can keep pumping missiles at you, running into one of those merchant-combat cruiser refits can really ruin your day if your point defense or shields let up even for a moment. And while you’re dealing with all that fire-and-forget ordnance coming at you, the ship’s maneuvering away...and firing more at you. Those big freighters can carry a LOT of reloads!”
The Brunel is one of PS’s ‘jack of all trades’ heavy carrier, deployed by Paladin Steel in the Rifts Earth solar system and by its subsidiary Aegis Stellar Industries in the Three Galaxies.
Sharing a general appearance and dimensions similar to the British Interplanetary Society’s proposed ‘Daedalus’ nuclear pulse starship, the Brunel is a massive spacecraft, described as looking like a spacegoing fireplug. However, the Brunel isn’t a staged craft, nor does it rely on large mass fuel-dependent nuclear pulse propulsion. Instead, the Brunel uses a large and powerful traction drive to build up speed. This system greatly reduces the need for onboard fuel bunkerage, freeing up weight and mass for cargo. In place of the giant 180 ft fuel tanks of the ‘Daedalus’, the Brunel instead carries cargo pods. These can be exchanged for other modules, however, giving the Brunel considerable versatility. The blunt ‘hammerhead’ prow with its distinctive anti-meteor shield can and is also used as a bumper for pushing large payloads around, the Brunel acting as a giant tug for such structures as spacestations and asteroid miners(especially ‘Spamfacs’).
The Brunel is a ‘tail sitter’; in flight, its deck orientation is such that the direction of acceleration is ‘up’. When landing, the Brunel sits on its massive engine bloc. It is fully capable of atmospheric takeoff and landing, but typically does not operate off terrestrial worlds(even with anti-gravity systems, the drag on the heavy framework hull causes control problems when maneuvering in dense atmosphere).
The Brunels are heavily reinforced against the expected rigors of moving heavy cargoes and pushing mass in dangerous environments such as asteroid belts. They also have a good complement of ‘anti-debris’ defenses and provision for being fitted with heavier weaponry if so required. Like virtually all Paladin Steel’s and Rifts Earth-designed vehicles, the Brunel can be armed and used as a combat craft, in this case through the attachment of various weapons and shield generator modules.
The Brunel is regarded as Paladin Steel’s primary ‘task ship’ design for moving heavy cargoes and industrial installations around the solar system. Fitted with FTL drives, it serves quite well in extrasolar operations as well. The design has also been modified quite ably into an effective warship design, the cargo podage exchanged for carrier hangar modules and weapons installations.
Type:PSS/ASI-LHAOE-07 ‘Brunel’
Class:Spaceborne Fleet Tender/Replenishment Vessel/Industrial Platform Dock/Heavy Transport
Crew: 92, with provision for 1-200 additional crew/passengers/technicians
Typically carries a complement of 50-400 work drones of varying spec.
MDC/Armor by Location:
Main Body 9,000
Bridge 3,000
Reinforced Life System Section 4,000
Modular Payload Spheres/Pods(6) 1,000 each
Grappler Arms(12) 300 each
Point Defense Lasers(12) 100 each
Propulsion Block 5,000
Forcefield 7,000
Height: 650 ft
Width: 650 ft
Length: 740 ft
Weight: 400,000 tons
Cargo: 2,000 tons internally
External Cargo Racks:
*Six Primary Racks---The six heavy racks around the lower midsection typically carry a single 180-ft diameter spherical pod, but can be outfitted to carry regular cylindrical or ‘boxcar’ cargo modules---up to 1,800 tons worth each
*Six Secondary Racks---Arrayed around the upper midsection, around the life support section, are six smaller external cargo racks, each one capable of holding 400 tons of cargo poddage.
*Tug Mode---The Brunel can push large payloads attached to its forward ‘bumper’ of up to 250,000 tons, and carry them FTL, but normal space acceleration will be only 30% of normal (about 0.2% of light speed per melee).
Powerplant: Nuclear Fusion w/ 25 year energy life
Speed:
(Atmosphere) Hover to Mach 3; rarely enters an atmosphere or gravity well of more than .5 gee.
(Sublight) Mach 7
(Kitsune Values: 60% of light speed; Accelerates/decelerates at 0.7% of light speed per melee)
(FTL) 4 light years per hour
(Underwater) Not possible
Market Cost: 500 million credits
Systems of Note:
*Full Sensor Suite---Specialized sensor pallets include radiation detectors and counters, spectrographic analysis devices, gravitic sensors, electromagnetic activity readers, and optics packages.
*Long Range Radar---Phased Array Search and Early Warning Radars---Maximum Resolution Range of 300,000 miles. Navigational array has a range of 1 million miles.
*Laser Targeting-------100,000 miles
*Communications Suite:---Long Range Radio and Video
*Laser Communications ---Tactical (i.e. ship-to fighter/shuttle)Range: 50,000 miles
*Optical Tracking Clusters----These are transparent blisters fitted with gimbal-mounted high-resolution visible-light/IR/UV optical telescopes that continually scan the arc of sky before them. Linked to the navigational arrays and other tracking sensors, and to a series of highly-sophisticated near-AI search and discrimination software systems, these sensors attempt to detect objects that have low radar returns/sensor signatures, such as stealthed vehicles, iceballs, or asteroids. The high-tech equivalent of the man in the crow’s nest with a pair of binoculars.
*Onboard Autofacs---The Brunels carry a full complement of automated assemblers, heavy machine tools, and fabrication lines, the envy of any Orbital outside Laika Station. They also have several small capacity smelters/furnaces for producing small amounts of metal, glass, and ceramic components from scratch(Larger industrial quantities would require actually assembling a deep space smelter or refinery). The ships also sport powerful diagnostic sensor tools and testing systems, including several different isolated computer systems for testing suspect electronics for virus compromise. Combined with extensive engineering data banks and AutoCAD/CAT systems, engineers can study, diagnose, design, test in simulation, and assemble just about anything given enough time...
*Grappling Arms(12)--These massive four-jointed multi-position robotic arms are used for grappling onto objects, shoving about cargo pods, and doing heavy duty work. Each has a reach of 200 ft, and has a four-fingered gripper, electromagnetic head, spotlight, and stereoscopic video camera at the end. They’re not agile or fast enough to be very useful in melee combat, but if they can catch an object, they can punch for 1d6x10 MD, or crush for 2d6x10 MD(2 attacks)
*EM Tractor Beams(7)-------3 long range heavy duty emitters with a range of 80 miles, and able to handle up to 1,000 tons each, and four smaller light duty projectors, each with a range of 5 miles, and maximum handling capacity of 100 tons.
Weapons Systems:
1)Point Defense Lasers(12)---2 rings of PDLs, four on the front segment, eight around the rim of the rear engine bell, are mounted around the Brunel for defensive coverage.
Range: 1 mile in atmosphere, 4 miles in space
(Kitsune Values: 4 miles in atmosphere, 400 miles in space)
Damage: 2d6x10 MD per blast
Rate of Fire: EGCHH, or 6 shots per melee under auto-fire mode.
Payload: Effectively unlimited
Auxiliary Craft:
1-4 Shuttlecraft, 12 workpods
Typically has a fleet of 50-300 robot drones
Options:
*Modular Pods(Heavy)(6)---The large payload pods can be swapped out with special purpose pods, including habitat modules, satellite and small craft hangars, fighter carriers, scientific and sensor ‘shacks’, weapons modules, or even small spacecraft.
a) Habitat Module---Can accommodate up to 200 people. Independent life support(good for up to eight months). If so desired, at extra expense, the Habitat Module can be built with its own independent propulsion system(maximum speed of Mach 3), and can make planetary re-entry on its own.
b) Hangar Pod---Holds enough space for 2 medium shuttles or 4 fighters
c) Point Defense Module---Holds an array of PDS systems, missile launchers, and a separate powerplant to power them all.
*Rail Guns(4)
Range: 6,000 ft in atmosphere, 2 miles in space
(Kitsune Values: 2 miles in atmosphere/ 200 miles in space)
Damage: 2d4x10 MD per 60 rd burst
Rate of Fire: 6 attacks per melee
Payload: 12,000 rds per gun(200 bursts each) with 5 reload drums per gun(drum changes out in 5 minutes). Additional drums are available in cargo, and can be loaded in 15 minutes(an ammunition drum weighs 1 ton).
Advanced Targeting Bonus: +3 to strike
*Laser Cannon(4x2)
Range: 1 mile in atmosphere, 4 miles in space
(Kitsune Values: 4 miles in atmosphere, 400 miles in space)
Damage: 2d6x10 MD per single blast, 4d6x10 MD per double blast
Rate of Fire: EGCHH, or 7 per melee on automated mode.
Payload: Effectively unlimited
Advanced Targeting Bonus: +4 to strike
*Mini-Missile Launchers(2)
Range:Varies by Missile Type
(Kitsune Values: 2 miles in atmosphere, 100 miles in space)
Damage: Varies by Missile Type
Rate of Fire: Volleys of 1-20
Payload: 400 missiles per launcher, 800 total, plus 400 tons of reloads, available to the launcher magazines within 15 minutes (1 ton of cargo capacity holding 96 MMs)
(Option)---The Mini-Missile launcher component of these turrets can be modified to fire the “S-Sting” ‘Smart Mini-Missile -----The S-Sting(for ‘Space Stinger’) is an attempt to adapt the guidance systems and accuracy of the ‘Black Talon’ L-SAM to a space-based missile. The missile resembles a rather stubby cylinder with a blunt-nosed optical cluster and protruding verniers(extend after launching), owing to the fact that the vacuum of space negates the need for streamlining the weapon.
Note that the ‘S-Sting’ has only limited effectiveness in an atmosphere....HALF bonuses in a thin atmosphere and weak gravity well like Mars’, and NO bonuses, and HALF range in a thick atmosphere and standard gravity like Earth’s.
Range: 4 miles in atmosphere, 32 miles in space
(Kitsune Values: 4 miles in atmosphere/ 400 miles in space)
Damage: 2d6x10 MD to a 15 ft blast radius
Bonuses: +7 to strike
d)Medium Range Missile Launchers(2)
Range:Varies by Missile Type
(Kitsune Values: 160 miles in atmosphere, 80,000 miles in space)
Damage:Varies by Missile Type
Rate of Fire: Volleys of 1-30
Payload: 240 missiles each launcher, plus 500 tons of reloads, available to the launcher magazines within 15 minutes (1 ton of cargo capacity holding 24 MRMs)
e) Long Range Missile Launchers(2)
Range: Varies by missile type(speed and range x4 in space)
(Kitsune Values: 3,400 miles in atmosphere, 1,800,000 miles in space)
Damage: Varies by missile type
Rate of Fire: Volleys of 1-25
Payload: 600 LRMs per pod, plus 500 tons of reloads, available to the launcher magazines within 15 minutes (1 ton of cargo capacity holding 12 LRMs)
f) Medium Lasers(4)----Pod mounts turreted cannon, as well as its own fire control and dedicated powerplant.
Range: 8 miles in atmosphere, 16 miles in space
(Kitsune Values: 16 miles in atmosphere, 16,000 miles in space)
Damage: 2d6x100 MD per blast
Rate of Fire: 4 shots per melee
Payload: Effectively Unlimited
g) Heavy Lasers(2)----Pod mounts turreted cannon, as well as its own fire control and dedicated powerplant.
Range: 15 miles in atmosphere, 80 miles in space
(Kitsune Values: 80 miles in atmosphere, 80,000 miles in space)
Damage: 1d4x1000 MD per shot
Rate of Fire: 3 shots per melee
Payload: Effectively Unlimited
h) Medium Particle Beam Cannons(4)----Pod mounts turreted cannon, as well as its own fire control and dedicated powerplant.
Range: 7 miles in atmosphere, 14 miles in space
(Kitsune Values: 14 miles in atmosphere, 14,000 miles in space)
Damage: 4d4x100 MD per blast
Rate of Fire: 3 shots per melee
Payload: Effectively Unlimited
i) Heavy Particle Beam Cannons(2)----Pod mounts turreted cannon, as well as its own fire control and dedicated powerplant.
Range: 15 miles in atmosphere, 60 miles in space
(Kitsune Values: 60 miles in atmosphere, 60,000 miles in space)
Damage: 1d6x1,000 MD per single blast, 2d6x1,000 MD per double-barreled blast.
Rate of Fire: Once every melee
Payload: Effectively Unlimited
j) Heavy Rail Guns(1x3)
Range: 40 miles in atmosphere, 80 miles in space
(Kitsune Values: 40 miles in atmosphere, 40,000 miles in space)
Damage:(Exploding/Fragmenting Fletchette): 5d6x10 MD to anything caught in a 120 ft wide cone/’cloud’----Targets are -2 to dodge the’shotgun spread’
(Penetrator): 2d6x100 MD
Rate of Fire: Four times per melee
Payload: 100 rds per cannon, reloading from the cargo hold takes 1d6 minutes( 500 tons ammunition storage, 1 ton of cargo per 12 rounds)
k) Eight-Inch Six-Barrel Rail Gun Gatling(1)----This massive weapon was first fitted as the main armament of the Sangu-class destroyers, and earned a reputation as a ‘Kitty Spanker’ for its ability to shatter Arkhon vessels. A turreted pod mounting one of these guns and a generous supply of ammunition is available to be fitted on the Brunels.
Range: 20 miles in atmosphere, 40 miles in space
(Kitsune Values: 20 miles in atmosphere, 20,000 miles in space)
Damage:(Armor-Piercing Long Rod Penetrator)---- 5d6x10 MD to 40 ft radius per single shot
(High Explosive)---4d6x10 MD to 50 ft blast radius
(Plasma)-----2d4x 50+30 MD to 80 ft radius
Rate of Fire: Six shots per melee
Payload: Has 1,200 rds ready to fire
*Modular Pods(Secondary)(6)---The secondary payload pods can be swapped out with special purpose pods, including missile launchers, gun mounts, and fighter/small craft service modules
a) Small Habitat Module---Can accommodate up to 60 people. Independent life support(good for up to eight months). If so desired, at extra expense, the Habitat Module can be built with its own independent propulsion system(maximum speed of Mach 3), and can make planetary re-entry on its own.
b) Hangar Pod---Has connectors and servicing points for an externally carried fighter or small shuttle
c) Short Range Missile Launchers
Range:Varies by Missile Type
(Kitsune Values: 10 miles in atmosphere, 500 miles in space)
Damage:Varies by Missile Type
Rate of Fire: Volleys of 1-30 each launcher
Payload: 100 per launcher, plus 80 tons of reloads, available to the launcher magazines within 15 minutes (1 ton of cargo capacity holding 48 SRMs)
d) Medium Range Missile Launchers
Range:Varies by Missile Type
(Kitsune Values: 160 miles in atmosphere, 80,000 miles in space)
Damage:Varies by Missile Type
Rate of Fire: Volleys of 1-8
Payload: 80 missiles each launcher, plus 80 tons of reloads, available to the launcher magazines within 15 minutes .(1 ton of cargo capacity holding 24 MRMs)
e) Long Range Missile Launcher
Range: Varies by Missile Type
(Kitsune Values: 3,400 miles in atmosphere, 1,800,000 miles in space)
Damage:Varies by Missile Type
Rate of Fire: Volleys of 1-8
Payload: 40 missiles per launcher, plus 80 tons of reloads, available to the launcher magazines within 15 minutes (1 ton of cargo capacity holding 12 LRMs)
f) Point Defense Turret Module---Holds a rapid-fire rail and pulse laser array, as well as its own fire control and dedicated powerplant.
*Rail Gun(1)
Range: 6,000 ft in atmosphere, 2 miles in space
(Kitsune Values: 2 miles in atmosphere/ 200 miles in space)
Damage: 2d4x10 MD per 60 rd burst
Rate of Fire: 6 attacks per melee
Payload: 12,000 rds per gun(200 bursts each)
Radar Targeting Bonus: +3 to strike
*Laser Cannon(2x1)
Range: 1 mile in atmosphere, 4 miles in space
(Kitsune Values: 4 miles in atmosphere, 400 miles in space)
Damage: 2d6x10 MD per single blast, 4d6x10 MD per double blast
Rate of Fire: EGCHH, or 7 per melee on automated mode.
Payload: Effectively unlimited
Advanced Targeting Bonus: +4 to strike
g) Rail Gun Module
Range: 10 miles(40 miles in space)
(Kitsune Values: 40 miles in atmosphere, 40,000 miles in space)
Damage:1d4x100 MD per 80 rd burst, 3d4x100 MD per triple cannon burst
Rate of Fire:ECHH
Payload: 32,000 rds(400 bursts) per cannon
h) Medium Laser Cannon
Range: 5 miles in atmosphere, 10 miles in space
(Kitsune Values: 10 miles in atmosphere, 10,000 miles in space)
Damage: 1d6x100 MD pr blast
Rate of Fire: 4 shots per melee
Payload: Effectively Unlimited
i) Medium Particle Beam Cannon
Range: 7 miles in atmosphere, 14 miles in space
(Kitsune Values: 14 miles in atmosphere, 14,000 miles in space)
Damage: 2d4x100 MD single shot, 2d6x100 MD per full turret burst
Rate of Fire: Three shots per melee
Payload: Effectively Unlimited
Variants:
*PSS/ASI-LHAOE-07A---This is simply the Brunel without an FTL drive installed. These ships are limited to travel in normal space, and are generally confined to operating in a single star system. The ships are about 25% less expensive to produce, and are otherwise identical to the standard version.
*PSS/ASI-MCLG-07C---A stop-gap warship conversion of the Brunel that replaces the life system hull with the stripped-down upper hull of a Masakari/Falx-class destroyer(raise Main Body MDC to 12,000 MDC). The machinery spaces have had their manufactory modules stripped out and the power connections instead used to power newly-installed variable forcefield generators ( 1,500 MD each side, 9,000 MD total). In place of cargo pods, the MCLG-07C typically carries heavy weapons pods.
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“We’re pushing a load of ten battle-ring satellites this run out to the outer colonies. That’s like pushing a battleship with our foreheads, but the farther out we get, the easier it goes, until we can get to a good jump point and we can engage our Fast-Drive. If Nav’s done its job right, it’s all down the gravity well from there at our destination!””
“Wow! When I heard that I was being transferred to Engineering Command and a Fleet tender I wasn’t expecting to be cruising aboard such gunboat! Look at all those weapons!”
“You’d think that, wouldn’t you? Well, don’t get used to serving on a pocket battleship! Those guns are only one-ways; we’ll have them only for as long as it takes us to rendevouz with the VFSS Manhatten, dismount the weapons from their carry-modules, and install them aboard her. We’ll be returning without them, hoping we don’t run into any Arkies on the way. Fortunately, we’ll be traveling a lot lighter and faster, though.”
“It may not be able to outrun you, and it might not be able to soak up a lot of punishment, but if it can keep pumping missiles at you, running into one of those merchant-combat cruiser refits can really ruin your day if your point defense or shields let up even for a moment. And while you’re dealing with all that fire-and-forget ordnance coming at you, the ship’s maneuvering away...and firing more at you. Those big freighters can carry a LOT of reloads!”
The Brunel is one of PS’s ‘jack of all trades’ heavy carrier, deployed by Paladin Steel in the Rifts Earth solar system and by its subsidiary Aegis Stellar Industries in the Three Galaxies.
Sharing a general appearance and dimensions similar to the British Interplanetary Society’s proposed ‘Daedalus’ nuclear pulse starship, the Brunel is a massive spacecraft, described as looking like a spacegoing fireplug. However, the Brunel isn’t a staged craft, nor does it rely on large mass fuel-dependent nuclear pulse propulsion. Instead, the Brunel uses a large and powerful traction drive to build up speed. This system greatly reduces the need for onboard fuel bunkerage, freeing up weight and mass for cargo. In place of the giant 180 ft fuel tanks of the ‘Daedalus’, the Brunel instead carries cargo pods. These can be exchanged for other modules, however, giving the Brunel considerable versatility. The blunt ‘hammerhead’ prow with its distinctive anti-meteor shield can and is also used as a bumper for pushing large payloads around, the Brunel acting as a giant tug for such structures as spacestations and asteroid miners(especially ‘Spamfacs’).
The Brunel is a ‘tail sitter’; in flight, its deck orientation is such that the direction of acceleration is ‘up’. When landing, the Brunel sits on its massive engine bloc. It is fully capable of atmospheric takeoff and landing, but typically does not operate off terrestrial worlds(even with anti-gravity systems, the drag on the heavy framework hull causes control problems when maneuvering in dense atmosphere).
The Brunels are heavily reinforced against the expected rigors of moving heavy cargoes and pushing mass in dangerous environments such as asteroid belts. They also have a good complement of ‘anti-debris’ defenses and provision for being fitted with heavier weaponry if so required. Like virtually all Paladin Steel’s and Rifts Earth-designed vehicles, the Brunel can be armed and used as a combat craft, in this case through the attachment of various weapons and shield generator modules.
The Brunel is regarded as Paladin Steel’s primary ‘task ship’ design for moving heavy cargoes and industrial installations around the solar system. Fitted with FTL drives, it serves quite well in extrasolar operations as well. The design has also been modified quite ably into an effective warship design, the cargo podage exchanged for carrier hangar modules and weapons installations.
Type:PSS/ASI-LHAOE-07 ‘Brunel’
Class:Spaceborne Fleet Tender/Replenishment Vessel/Industrial Platform Dock/Heavy Transport
Crew: 92, with provision for 1-200 additional crew/passengers/technicians
Typically carries a complement of 50-400 work drones of varying spec.
MDC/Armor by Location:
Main Body 9,000
Bridge 3,000
Reinforced Life System Section 4,000
Modular Payload Spheres/Pods(6) 1,000 each
Grappler Arms(12) 300 each
Point Defense Lasers(12) 100 each
Propulsion Block 5,000
Forcefield 7,000
Height: 650 ft
Width: 650 ft
Length: 740 ft
Weight: 400,000 tons
Cargo: 2,000 tons internally
External Cargo Racks:
*Six Primary Racks---The six heavy racks around the lower midsection typically carry a single 180-ft diameter spherical pod, but can be outfitted to carry regular cylindrical or ‘boxcar’ cargo modules---up to 1,800 tons worth each
*Six Secondary Racks---Arrayed around the upper midsection, around the life support section, are six smaller external cargo racks, each one capable of holding 400 tons of cargo poddage.
*Tug Mode---The Brunel can push large payloads attached to its forward ‘bumper’ of up to 250,000 tons, and carry them FTL, but normal space acceleration will be only 30% of normal (about 0.2% of light speed per melee).
Powerplant: Nuclear Fusion w/ 25 year energy life
Speed:
(Atmosphere) Hover to Mach 3; rarely enters an atmosphere or gravity well of more than .5 gee.
(Sublight) Mach 7
(Kitsune Values: 60% of light speed; Accelerates/decelerates at 0.7% of light speed per melee)
(FTL) 4 light years per hour
(Underwater) Not possible
Market Cost: 500 million credits
Systems of Note:
*Full Sensor Suite---Specialized sensor pallets include radiation detectors and counters, spectrographic analysis devices, gravitic sensors, electromagnetic activity readers, and optics packages.
*Long Range Radar---Phased Array Search and Early Warning Radars---Maximum Resolution Range of 300,000 miles. Navigational array has a range of 1 million miles.
*Laser Targeting-------100,000 miles
*Communications Suite:---Long Range Radio and Video
*Laser Communications ---Tactical (i.e. ship-to fighter/shuttle)Range: 50,000 miles
*Optical Tracking Clusters----These are transparent blisters fitted with gimbal-mounted high-resolution visible-light/IR/UV optical telescopes that continually scan the arc of sky before them. Linked to the navigational arrays and other tracking sensors, and to a series of highly-sophisticated near-AI search and discrimination software systems, these sensors attempt to detect objects that have low radar returns/sensor signatures, such as stealthed vehicles, iceballs, or asteroids. The high-tech equivalent of the man in the crow’s nest with a pair of binoculars.
*Onboard Autofacs---The Brunels carry a full complement of automated assemblers, heavy machine tools, and fabrication lines, the envy of any Orbital outside Laika Station. They also have several small capacity smelters/furnaces for producing small amounts of metal, glass, and ceramic components from scratch(Larger industrial quantities would require actually assembling a deep space smelter or refinery). The ships also sport powerful diagnostic sensor tools and testing systems, including several different isolated computer systems for testing suspect electronics for virus compromise. Combined with extensive engineering data banks and AutoCAD/CAT systems, engineers can study, diagnose, design, test in simulation, and assemble just about anything given enough time...
*Grappling Arms(12)--These massive four-jointed multi-position robotic arms are used for grappling onto objects, shoving about cargo pods, and doing heavy duty work. Each has a reach of 200 ft, and has a four-fingered gripper, electromagnetic head, spotlight, and stereoscopic video camera at the end. They’re not agile or fast enough to be very useful in melee combat, but if they can catch an object, they can punch for 1d6x10 MD, or crush for 2d6x10 MD(2 attacks)
*EM Tractor Beams(7)-------3 long range heavy duty emitters with a range of 80 miles, and able to handle up to 1,000 tons each, and four smaller light duty projectors, each with a range of 5 miles, and maximum handling capacity of 100 tons.
Weapons Systems:
1)Point Defense Lasers(12)---2 rings of PDLs, four on the front segment, eight around the rim of the rear engine bell, are mounted around the Brunel for defensive coverage.
Range: 1 mile in atmosphere, 4 miles in space
(Kitsune Values: 4 miles in atmosphere, 400 miles in space)
Damage: 2d6x10 MD per blast
Rate of Fire: EGCHH, or 6 shots per melee under auto-fire mode.
Payload: Effectively unlimited
Auxiliary Craft:
1-4 Shuttlecraft, 12 workpods
Typically has a fleet of 50-300 robot drones
Options:
*Modular Pods(Heavy)(6)---The large payload pods can be swapped out with special purpose pods, including habitat modules, satellite and small craft hangars, fighter carriers, scientific and sensor ‘shacks’, weapons modules, or even small spacecraft.
a) Habitat Module---Can accommodate up to 200 people. Independent life support(good for up to eight months). If so desired, at extra expense, the Habitat Module can be built with its own independent propulsion system(maximum speed of Mach 3), and can make planetary re-entry on its own.
b) Hangar Pod---Holds enough space for 2 medium shuttles or 4 fighters
c) Point Defense Module---Holds an array of PDS systems, missile launchers, and a separate powerplant to power them all.
*Rail Guns(4)
Range: 6,000 ft in atmosphere, 2 miles in space
(Kitsune Values: 2 miles in atmosphere/ 200 miles in space)
Damage: 2d4x10 MD per 60 rd burst
Rate of Fire: 6 attacks per melee
Payload: 12,000 rds per gun(200 bursts each) with 5 reload drums per gun(drum changes out in 5 minutes). Additional drums are available in cargo, and can be loaded in 15 minutes(an ammunition drum weighs 1 ton).
Advanced Targeting Bonus: +3 to strike
*Laser Cannon(4x2)
Range: 1 mile in atmosphere, 4 miles in space
(Kitsune Values: 4 miles in atmosphere, 400 miles in space)
Damage: 2d6x10 MD per single blast, 4d6x10 MD per double blast
Rate of Fire: EGCHH, or 7 per melee on automated mode.
Payload: Effectively unlimited
Advanced Targeting Bonus: +4 to strike
*Mini-Missile Launchers(2)
Range:Varies by Missile Type
(Kitsune Values: 2 miles in atmosphere, 100 miles in space)
Damage: Varies by Missile Type
Rate of Fire: Volleys of 1-20
Payload: 400 missiles per launcher, 800 total, plus 400 tons of reloads, available to the launcher magazines within 15 minutes (1 ton of cargo capacity holding 96 MMs)
(Option)---The Mini-Missile launcher component of these turrets can be modified to fire the “S-Sting” ‘Smart Mini-Missile -----The S-Sting(for ‘Space Stinger’) is an attempt to adapt the guidance systems and accuracy of the ‘Black Talon’ L-SAM to a space-based missile. The missile resembles a rather stubby cylinder with a blunt-nosed optical cluster and protruding verniers(extend after launching), owing to the fact that the vacuum of space negates the need for streamlining the weapon.
Note that the ‘S-Sting’ has only limited effectiveness in an atmosphere....HALF bonuses in a thin atmosphere and weak gravity well like Mars’, and NO bonuses, and HALF range in a thick atmosphere and standard gravity like Earth’s.
Range: 4 miles in atmosphere, 32 miles in space
(Kitsune Values: 4 miles in atmosphere/ 400 miles in space)
Damage: 2d6x10 MD to a 15 ft blast radius
Bonuses: +7 to strike
d)Medium Range Missile Launchers(2)
Range:Varies by Missile Type
(Kitsune Values: 160 miles in atmosphere, 80,000 miles in space)
Damage:Varies by Missile Type
Rate of Fire: Volleys of 1-30
Payload: 240 missiles each launcher, plus 500 tons of reloads, available to the launcher magazines within 15 minutes (1 ton of cargo capacity holding 24 MRMs)
e) Long Range Missile Launchers(2)
Range: Varies by missile type(speed and range x4 in space)
(Kitsune Values: 3,400 miles in atmosphere, 1,800,000 miles in space)
Damage: Varies by missile type
Rate of Fire: Volleys of 1-25
Payload: 600 LRMs per pod, plus 500 tons of reloads, available to the launcher magazines within 15 minutes (1 ton of cargo capacity holding 12 LRMs)
f) Medium Lasers(4)----Pod mounts turreted cannon, as well as its own fire control and dedicated powerplant.
Range: 8 miles in atmosphere, 16 miles in space
(Kitsune Values: 16 miles in atmosphere, 16,000 miles in space)
Damage: 2d6x100 MD per blast
Rate of Fire: 4 shots per melee
Payload: Effectively Unlimited
g) Heavy Lasers(2)----Pod mounts turreted cannon, as well as its own fire control and dedicated powerplant.
Range: 15 miles in atmosphere, 80 miles in space
(Kitsune Values: 80 miles in atmosphere, 80,000 miles in space)
Damage: 1d4x1000 MD per shot
Rate of Fire: 3 shots per melee
Payload: Effectively Unlimited
h) Medium Particle Beam Cannons(4)----Pod mounts turreted cannon, as well as its own fire control and dedicated powerplant.
Range: 7 miles in atmosphere, 14 miles in space
(Kitsune Values: 14 miles in atmosphere, 14,000 miles in space)
Damage: 4d4x100 MD per blast
Rate of Fire: 3 shots per melee
Payload: Effectively Unlimited
i) Heavy Particle Beam Cannons(2)----Pod mounts turreted cannon, as well as its own fire control and dedicated powerplant.
Range: 15 miles in atmosphere, 60 miles in space
(Kitsune Values: 60 miles in atmosphere, 60,000 miles in space)
Damage: 1d6x1,000 MD per single blast, 2d6x1,000 MD per double-barreled blast.
Rate of Fire: Once every melee
Payload: Effectively Unlimited
j) Heavy Rail Guns(1x3)
Range: 40 miles in atmosphere, 80 miles in space
(Kitsune Values: 40 miles in atmosphere, 40,000 miles in space)
Damage:(Exploding/Fragmenting Fletchette): 5d6x10 MD to anything caught in a 120 ft wide cone/’cloud’----Targets are -2 to dodge the’shotgun spread’
(Penetrator): 2d6x100 MD
Rate of Fire: Four times per melee
Payload: 100 rds per cannon, reloading from the cargo hold takes 1d6 minutes( 500 tons ammunition storage, 1 ton of cargo per 12 rounds)
k) Eight-Inch Six-Barrel Rail Gun Gatling(1)----This massive weapon was first fitted as the main armament of the Sangu-class destroyers, and earned a reputation as a ‘Kitty Spanker’ for its ability to shatter Arkhon vessels. A turreted pod mounting one of these guns and a generous supply of ammunition is available to be fitted on the Brunels.
Range: 20 miles in atmosphere, 40 miles in space
(Kitsune Values: 20 miles in atmosphere, 20,000 miles in space)
Damage:(Armor-Piercing Long Rod Penetrator)---- 5d6x10 MD to 40 ft radius per single shot
(High Explosive)---4d6x10 MD to 50 ft blast radius
(Plasma)-----2d4x 50+30 MD to 80 ft radius
Rate of Fire: Six shots per melee
Payload: Has 1,200 rds ready to fire
*Modular Pods(Secondary)(6)---The secondary payload pods can be swapped out with special purpose pods, including missile launchers, gun mounts, and fighter/small craft service modules
a) Small Habitat Module---Can accommodate up to 60 people. Independent life support(good for up to eight months). If so desired, at extra expense, the Habitat Module can be built with its own independent propulsion system(maximum speed of Mach 3), and can make planetary re-entry on its own.
b) Hangar Pod---Has connectors and servicing points for an externally carried fighter or small shuttle
c) Short Range Missile Launchers
Range:Varies by Missile Type
(Kitsune Values: 10 miles in atmosphere, 500 miles in space)
Damage:Varies by Missile Type
Rate of Fire: Volleys of 1-30 each launcher
Payload: 100 per launcher, plus 80 tons of reloads, available to the launcher magazines within 15 minutes (1 ton of cargo capacity holding 48 SRMs)
d) Medium Range Missile Launchers
Range:Varies by Missile Type
(Kitsune Values: 160 miles in atmosphere, 80,000 miles in space)
Damage:Varies by Missile Type
Rate of Fire: Volleys of 1-8
Payload: 80 missiles each launcher, plus 80 tons of reloads, available to the launcher magazines within 15 minutes .(1 ton of cargo capacity holding 24 MRMs)
e) Long Range Missile Launcher
Range: Varies by Missile Type
(Kitsune Values: 3,400 miles in atmosphere, 1,800,000 miles in space)
Damage:Varies by Missile Type
Rate of Fire: Volleys of 1-8
Payload: 40 missiles per launcher, plus 80 tons of reloads, available to the launcher magazines within 15 minutes (1 ton of cargo capacity holding 12 LRMs)
f) Point Defense Turret Module---Holds a rapid-fire rail and pulse laser array, as well as its own fire control and dedicated powerplant.
*Rail Gun(1)
Range: 6,000 ft in atmosphere, 2 miles in space
(Kitsune Values: 2 miles in atmosphere/ 200 miles in space)
Damage: 2d4x10 MD per 60 rd burst
Rate of Fire: 6 attacks per melee
Payload: 12,000 rds per gun(200 bursts each)
Radar Targeting Bonus: +3 to strike
*Laser Cannon(2x1)
Range: 1 mile in atmosphere, 4 miles in space
(Kitsune Values: 4 miles in atmosphere, 400 miles in space)
Damage: 2d6x10 MD per single blast, 4d6x10 MD per double blast
Rate of Fire: EGCHH, or 7 per melee on automated mode.
Payload: Effectively unlimited
Advanced Targeting Bonus: +4 to strike
g) Rail Gun Module
Range: 10 miles(40 miles in space)
(Kitsune Values: 40 miles in atmosphere, 40,000 miles in space)
Damage:1d4x100 MD per 80 rd burst, 3d4x100 MD per triple cannon burst
Rate of Fire:ECHH
Payload: 32,000 rds(400 bursts) per cannon
h) Medium Laser Cannon
Range: 5 miles in atmosphere, 10 miles in space
(Kitsune Values: 10 miles in atmosphere, 10,000 miles in space)
Damage: 1d6x100 MD pr blast
Rate of Fire: 4 shots per melee
Payload: Effectively Unlimited
i) Medium Particle Beam Cannon
Range: 7 miles in atmosphere, 14 miles in space
(Kitsune Values: 14 miles in atmosphere, 14,000 miles in space)
Damage: 2d4x100 MD single shot, 2d6x100 MD per full turret burst
Rate of Fire: Three shots per melee
Payload: Effectively Unlimited
Variants:
*PSS/ASI-LHAOE-07A---This is simply the Brunel without an FTL drive installed. These ships are limited to travel in normal space, and are generally confined to operating in a single star system. The ships are about 25% less expensive to produce, and are otherwise identical to the standard version.
*PSS/ASI-MCLG-07C---A stop-gap warship conversion of the Brunel that replaces the life system hull with the stripped-down upper hull of a Masakari/Falx-class destroyer(raise Main Body MDC to 12,000 MDC). The machinery spaces have had their manufactory modules stripped out and the power connections instead used to power newly-installed variable forcefield generators ( 1,500 MD each side, 9,000 MD total). In place of cargo pods, the MCLG-07C typically carries heavy weapons pods.
Re: Paladin Steel Storefront
Posted: Fri Mar 18, 2011 10:02 pm
Different. Have hear of it in Sci-fi may seen once or twice in other books.
Re: Paladin Steel Storefront
Posted: Fri Mar 18, 2011 11:18 pm
abtex wrote:Different. Have hear of it in Sci-fi may seen once or twice in other books.
Yeah I liked its utilitarian looks, and the fact that there were dimensions available for it. But as soon as I'm able, I'll do my own art of the PS version of it.
Re: Paladin Steel Storefront
Posted: Sat Mar 19, 2011 12:21 pm
taalismn wrote:Paladin Steel/Sikorsky Cypher III Light VTOL RPV
Does PS or Sikorsky build larger versions of the Cypher? Can they?
Re: Paladin Steel Storefront
Posted: Sat Mar 19, 2011 8:23 pm
Paladin Steel/Aegis Stellar Industries ‘Goethals’ Heavy Deep Space/Interstellar Transport
(aka ‘Pedestal’, ‘Sceptor-ship’)
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“With just one ship we can drop an entire mining complex into position. That’s a MAJOR savings in transport costs and time, so our investors don’t have that much longer to wait until they start seeing a return on their venture capital.”
“I’ve heard that fully loaded Goethalss are sometimes called ‘shish-kebob cruisers’ on account of the loaded cargo spheres, boxes, and freight donuts. I’m not terribly fond of that nickname, because it implies that somebody or something’s going to chew and eat all that cargo off the ship. Whenever I hear somebody using ‘shish-kebob’ about one of my commands before we light out, I make DAMN sure I know what sort of anti-piracy escort I’m carrying or getting for protection.”
The ‘Goethals’ is a development of the ‘Brunel’ engineering ship, but is scaled up to be three times as long, with three times the cargo capacity. Its construction is similar, harkening back to PS’s early modular ‘flying erector set’ ships, only in this case extending the length of the ship and installing more powerful propulsion systems. The extra height and weight make maneuvering in atmosphere and ‘tailsitting’ a landing a rather more difficult proposition, so most such vessels rarely do so, instead remaining in orbit and using other means to shuttle their cargoes down to a planetary surface. The modular nature of the ships, and their external cargo racks mean that the ships can haul a wide variety of payloads that might otherwise prove restrictive for smaller enclosed-hold vessels.
While the greater mass of the vessels means that they carry more armor, the shielding on the Goethals are little better than those of the smaller Brunels. Because a fully loaded Goethals is such a tempting target for pirates, however, the point defense armament has been TRIPLED, and any would-be bandits closing in will find themselves running into a gauntlet of pulse lasers, and their missiles flying into a veritable porcupine of intercept fire. Though not designed for combat, like the Brunel the Goethals can carry weapons modules in place of its normal cargo pods, allowing it to serve as an impromptu weapons platform or even a fighter carrier. More extensive refitting to add armor and additional armament to the massive ships is also possible, but prohibitively expensive, and PS/ASI only does this when there aren’t faster and more danger-evasive means of delivering cargoes.
The Goethals is meant to carry large cargos across the cosmos FAST. The real change in the Brunel design is not the scale, but in the larger and more powerful battleship-grade FTL drive systems. The same massive engines give the ships a good turn of speed in normal space as well, though many fighters and cruisers are still faster.
Goethals and Brunels make up the backbone of PS/GNE/ASI’s heavy space transport network, carrying the bulk of goods and resources between star systems.
Type:PSS/ASI-LHAOE-08 ‘Goethals’
Class:Spaceborne Fleet Tender/Replenishment Vessel/Industrial Platform Dock/Heavy Transport
Crew: 92, with provision for 1-200 additional crew/passengers/technicians
Typically carries a complement of 50-400 work drones of varying spec.
MDC/Armor by Location:
Main Body 28,000
Bridge 3,000
Reinforced Life System Section 5,000
Modular Payload Spheres/Pods(18) 1,000 each
Grappler Arms(36) 300 each
Point Defense Lasers(36) 100 each
Propulsion Block 7,000
Forcefield 7,000
Height: 1,850 ft
Width: 750 ft
Length: 750 ft
Weight: 1,200,000 tons
Cargo: 8,000 tons internally
External Cargo Racks:
*Eighteen Primary Racks---The eighteen heavy racks around the lower midsection typically carry a single 180-ft diameter spherical pod, but can be outfitted to carry regular cylindrical or ‘boxcar’ cargo modules---up to 1,800 tons worth each
*Twenty Secondary Racks(2x10)---Arrayed around the upper midsection, around the life support section, and around the midsection, are ten smaller external cargo racks, each one capable of holding 400 tons of cargo poddage.
Powerplant: Nuclear Fusion w/ 25 year energy life
Speed:
(Atmosphere) Hover to Mach 3; rarely enters an atmosphere or gravity well of more than .5 gee.
(Sublight) Mach 7
(Kitsune Values: 60% of light speed; Accelerates/decelerates at 0.7% of light speed per melee)
(FTL) 6 light years per hour
(Underwater) Not possible
Market Cost: 1.2 billion credits
Systems of Note:
*Full Sensor Suite---Specialized sensor pallets include radiation detectors and counters, spectrographic analysis devices, gravitic sensors, electromagnetic activity readers, and optics packages.
*Long Range Radar---Phased Array Search and Early Warning Radars---Maximum Resolution Range of 300,000 miles. Navigational array has a range of 1 million miles.
*Laser Targeting-------100,000 miles
*Communications Suite:---Long Range Radio and Video
*Laser Communications ---Tactical (i.e. ship-to fighter/shuttle)Range: 50,000 miles
*Optical Tracking Clusters----These are transparent blisters fitted with gimbal-mounted high-resolution visible-light/IR/UV optical telescopes that continually scan the arc of sky before them. Linked to the navigational arrays and other tracking sensors, and to a series of highly-sophisticated near-AI search and discrimination software systems, these sensors attempt to detect objects that have low radar returns/sensor signatures, such as stealthed vehicles, iceballs, or asteroids. The high-tech equivalent of the man in the crow’s nest with a pair of binoculars.
*Onboard Autofacs---The Goethals carry a full complement of automated assemblers, heavy machine tools, and fabrication lines, the envy of any Orbital outside Laika Station. They also have several small capacity smelters/furnaces for producing small amounts of metal, glass, and ceramic components from scratch(Larger industrial quantities would require actually assembling a deep space smelter or refinery). The ships also sport powerful diagnostic sensor tools and testing systems, including several different isolated computer systems for testing suspect electronics for virus compromise. Combined with extensive engineering data banks and AutoCAD/CAT systems, engineers can study, diagnose, design, test in simulation, and assemble just about anything given enough time...
*Grappling Arms(36)--These massive four-jointed multi-position robotic arms are used for grappling onto objects, shoving about cargo pods, and doing heavy duty work. Each has a reach of 200 ft, and has a four-fingered gripper, electromagnetic head, spotlight, and stereoscopic video camera at the end. They’re not agile or fast enough to be very useful in melee combat, but if they can catch an object, they can punch for 1d6x10 MD, or crush for 2d6x10 MD(2 attacks)
*EM Tractor Beams(21)-------3 long range heavy duty emitters with a range of 80 miles, and able to handle up to 1,000 tons each, and four smaller light duty projectors, each with a range of 5 miles, and maximum handling capacity of 100 tons.
Weapons Systems:
1)Point Defense Lasers(36)
Range: 1 mile in atmosphere, 4 miles in space
(Kitsune Values: 4 miles in atmosphere, 400 miles in space)
Damage: 2d6x10 MD per blast
Rate of Fire: EGCHH, or 6 shots per melee under auto-fire mode.
Payload: Effectively unlimited
Auxiliary Craft:
1-8 Shuttlecraft, 24 workpods
Typically has a fleet of 50-500 robot drones
Options:
*Modular Pods(Heavy)(18)---The large payload pods can be swapped out with special purpose pods, including habitat modules, satellite and small craft hangars, fighter carriers, scientific and sensor ‘shacks’, and weapons modules. Identical to those available to the Brunel.
*Modular Pods(Secondary)(20)---The secondary payload pods can be swapped out with special purpose pods, including missile launchers, gun mounts, and fighter/small craft service modules. Identical to those available to the Brunel.
Variants:
*PSS/ASI-MCLG-08C---An upgunned variant of the Goethals, meant for duty along particularly dangerous or contested spacelanes. The major differences between the ‘merchant cruiser’ variant and the regular version are slightly heavier armor (32,000 MDC main body, 10,000 Propulsion Block), slightly better shields( 1,700 MD each side, 10,200 MD total), and the addition of eight medium laser cannons to the hull. Typically, dedicated merchant-cruisers will have at least half of their pod-space devted to weapons mounts and fighter/small craft hangars.
1) Medium Laser Cannons(8, two twin-barrelled mounts forward hull, four single-cannon turrets mounted around the circumferance of the rear engine block)
Range: 8 miles in atmosphere, 16 miles in space
(Kitsune Values: 16 miles in atmosphere, 16,000 miles in space)
Damage: 2d6x100 MD per blast, 4d6x100 MD per double-barrled blast
Rate of Fire: 4 shots per melee
Payload: Effectively Unlimited
(aka ‘Pedestal’, ‘Sceptor-ship’)
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“With just one ship we can drop an entire mining complex into position. That’s a MAJOR savings in transport costs and time, so our investors don’t have that much longer to wait until they start seeing a return on their venture capital.”
“I’ve heard that fully loaded Goethalss are sometimes called ‘shish-kebob cruisers’ on account of the loaded cargo spheres, boxes, and freight donuts. I’m not terribly fond of that nickname, because it implies that somebody or something’s going to chew and eat all that cargo off the ship. Whenever I hear somebody using ‘shish-kebob’ about one of my commands before we light out, I make DAMN sure I know what sort of anti-piracy escort I’m carrying or getting for protection.”
The ‘Goethals’ is a development of the ‘Brunel’ engineering ship, but is scaled up to be three times as long, with three times the cargo capacity. Its construction is similar, harkening back to PS’s early modular ‘flying erector set’ ships, only in this case extending the length of the ship and installing more powerful propulsion systems. The extra height and weight make maneuvering in atmosphere and ‘tailsitting’ a landing a rather more difficult proposition, so most such vessels rarely do so, instead remaining in orbit and using other means to shuttle their cargoes down to a planetary surface. The modular nature of the ships, and their external cargo racks mean that the ships can haul a wide variety of payloads that might otherwise prove restrictive for smaller enclosed-hold vessels.
While the greater mass of the vessels means that they carry more armor, the shielding on the Goethals are little better than those of the smaller Brunels. Because a fully loaded Goethals is such a tempting target for pirates, however, the point defense armament has been TRIPLED, and any would-be bandits closing in will find themselves running into a gauntlet of pulse lasers, and their missiles flying into a veritable porcupine of intercept fire. Though not designed for combat, like the Brunel the Goethals can carry weapons modules in place of its normal cargo pods, allowing it to serve as an impromptu weapons platform or even a fighter carrier. More extensive refitting to add armor and additional armament to the massive ships is also possible, but prohibitively expensive, and PS/ASI only does this when there aren’t faster and more danger-evasive means of delivering cargoes.
The Goethals is meant to carry large cargos across the cosmos FAST. The real change in the Brunel design is not the scale, but in the larger and more powerful battleship-grade FTL drive systems. The same massive engines give the ships a good turn of speed in normal space as well, though many fighters and cruisers are still faster.
Goethals and Brunels make up the backbone of PS/GNE/ASI’s heavy space transport network, carrying the bulk of goods and resources between star systems.
Type:PSS/ASI-LHAOE-08 ‘Goethals’
Class:Spaceborne Fleet Tender/Replenishment Vessel/Industrial Platform Dock/Heavy Transport
Crew: 92, with provision for 1-200 additional crew/passengers/technicians
Typically carries a complement of 50-400 work drones of varying spec.
MDC/Armor by Location:
Main Body 28,000
Bridge 3,000
Reinforced Life System Section 5,000
Modular Payload Spheres/Pods(18) 1,000 each
Grappler Arms(36) 300 each
Point Defense Lasers(36) 100 each
Propulsion Block 7,000
Forcefield 7,000
Height: 1,850 ft
Width: 750 ft
Length: 750 ft
Weight: 1,200,000 tons
Cargo: 8,000 tons internally
External Cargo Racks:
*Eighteen Primary Racks---The eighteen heavy racks around the lower midsection typically carry a single 180-ft diameter spherical pod, but can be outfitted to carry regular cylindrical or ‘boxcar’ cargo modules---up to 1,800 tons worth each
*Twenty Secondary Racks(2x10)---Arrayed around the upper midsection, around the life support section, and around the midsection, are ten smaller external cargo racks, each one capable of holding 400 tons of cargo poddage.
Powerplant: Nuclear Fusion w/ 25 year energy life
Speed:
(Atmosphere) Hover to Mach 3; rarely enters an atmosphere or gravity well of more than .5 gee.
(Sublight) Mach 7
(Kitsune Values: 60% of light speed; Accelerates/decelerates at 0.7% of light speed per melee)
(FTL) 6 light years per hour
(Underwater) Not possible
Market Cost: 1.2 billion credits
Systems of Note:
*Full Sensor Suite---Specialized sensor pallets include radiation detectors and counters, spectrographic analysis devices, gravitic sensors, electromagnetic activity readers, and optics packages.
*Long Range Radar---Phased Array Search and Early Warning Radars---Maximum Resolution Range of 300,000 miles. Navigational array has a range of 1 million miles.
*Laser Targeting-------100,000 miles
*Communications Suite:---Long Range Radio and Video
*Laser Communications ---Tactical (i.e. ship-to fighter/shuttle)Range: 50,000 miles
*Optical Tracking Clusters----These are transparent blisters fitted with gimbal-mounted high-resolution visible-light/IR/UV optical telescopes that continually scan the arc of sky before them. Linked to the navigational arrays and other tracking sensors, and to a series of highly-sophisticated near-AI search and discrimination software systems, these sensors attempt to detect objects that have low radar returns/sensor signatures, such as stealthed vehicles, iceballs, or asteroids. The high-tech equivalent of the man in the crow’s nest with a pair of binoculars.
*Onboard Autofacs---The Goethals carry a full complement of automated assemblers, heavy machine tools, and fabrication lines, the envy of any Orbital outside Laika Station. They also have several small capacity smelters/furnaces for producing small amounts of metal, glass, and ceramic components from scratch(Larger industrial quantities would require actually assembling a deep space smelter or refinery). The ships also sport powerful diagnostic sensor tools and testing systems, including several different isolated computer systems for testing suspect electronics for virus compromise. Combined with extensive engineering data banks and AutoCAD/CAT systems, engineers can study, diagnose, design, test in simulation, and assemble just about anything given enough time...
*Grappling Arms(36)--These massive four-jointed multi-position robotic arms are used for grappling onto objects, shoving about cargo pods, and doing heavy duty work. Each has a reach of 200 ft, and has a four-fingered gripper, electromagnetic head, spotlight, and stereoscopic video camera at the end. They’re not agile or fast enough to be very useful in melee combat, but if they can catch an object, they can punch for 1d6x10 MD, or crush for 2d6x10 MD(2 attacks)
*EM Tractor Beams(21)-------3 long range heavy duty emitters with a range of 80 miles, and able to handle up to 1,000 tons each, and four smaller light duty projectors, each with a range of 5 miles, and maximum handling capacity of 100 tons.
Weapons Systems:
1)Point Defense Lasers(36)
Range: 1 mile in atmosphere, 4 miles in space
(Kitsune Values: 4 miles in atmosphere, 400 miles in space)
Damage: 2d6x10 MD per blast
Rate of Fire: EGCHH, or 6 shots per melee under auto-fire mode.
Payload: Effectively unlimited
Auxiliary Craft:
1-8 Shuttlecraft, 24 workpods
Typically has a fleet of 50-500 robot drones
Options:
*Modular Pods(Heavy)(18)---The large payload pods can be swapped out with special purpose pods, including habitat modules, satellite and small craft hangars, fighter carriers, scientific and sensor ‘shacks’, and weapons modules. Identical to those available to the Brunel.
*Modular Pods(Secondary)(20)---The secondary payload pods can be swapped out with special purpose pods, including missile launchers, gun mounts, and fighter/small craft service modules. Identical to those available to the Brunel.
Variants:
*PSS/ASI-MCLG-08C---An upgunned variant of the Goethals, meant for duty along particularly dangerous or contested spacelanes. The major differences between the ‘merchant cruiser’ variant and the regular version are slightly heavier armor (32,000 MDC main body, 10,000 Propulsion Block), slightly better shields( 1,700 MD each side, 10,200 MD total), and the addition of eight medium laser cannons to the hull. Typically, dedicated merchant-cruisers will have at least half of their pod-space devted to weapons mounts and fighter/small craft hangars.
1) Medium Laser Cannons(8, two twin-barrelled mounts forward hull, four single-cannon turrets mounted around the circumferance of the rear engine block)
Range: 8 miles in atmosphere, 16 miles in space
(Kitsune Values: 16 miles in atmosphere, 16,000 miles in space)
Damage: 2d6x100 MD per blast, 4d6x100 MD per double-barrled blast
Rate of Fire: 4 shots per melee
Payload: Effectively Unlimited
Re: Paladin Steel Storefront
Posted: Sun Mar 20, 2011 3:08 am
taalismn wrote:Paladin Steel Brunel Heavy DeepSpace Tug
Those tugs delivery instant bases or tourist traps anywhere.
Re: Paladin Steel Storefront
Posted: Sun Mar 20, 2011 1:31 pm
abtex wrote:taalismn wrote:Paladin Steel Brunel Heavy DeepSpace Tug
Those tugs delivery instant bases or tourist traps anywhere.
I remember seeing that book ages ago!
Yeah, that's one such possible module that can be transported...actually several, depending on the quality(from 'seedy roadside motel' to 'luxury destination residence'). Maybe a little beachside(on the ammonia sea) condo-module?
Re: Paladin Steel Storefront
Posted: Mon Mar 21, 2011 7:16 pm
Picked up a copyof Richard Dredge's "The World's Worst Concept Cars"...now I'm looking at it with the mind of 'we learn more from our mistakes than our successes'...Don't know if any will appear as PS vehicles, but maybe otehr companies/species.
There is one amusing line so far, in the heading to the chapter "Completely Pointless'' "For example, did we really need a car that incorporated its own mixing desk? Or a vehicle that featured a hovercraft deck at the back?"
I'll turn down the volume and the monitor brightness for the Rifts response to that...
There is one amusing line so far, in the heading to the chapter "Completely Pointless'' "For example, did we really need a car that incorporated its own mixing desk? Or a vehicle that featured a hovercraft deck at the back?"
I'll turn down the volume and the monitor brightness for the Rifts response to that...
Re: Paladin Steel Storefront
Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2011 3:30 am
"Redneck Technology, It works with a little elbow magic."
Give a junkyard and workshop, or just a good tree to work under. We will give something you never dreamed or had nightmares about yet.
For example, did we really need a car that incorporated its own mixing desk? = 89er HU based tech using sound based powers
Or a vehicle that featured a hovercraft deck at the back? = Recon drone or Overarmed UAVs need somewhere to rest.
is that the Rinspeed X-Trem? Love that concept. So many way to use it.
Where else can the water based DBee ride and drive from that the pool, open or covered.
What else is there?
Open your mind a little. Read it as someone who describing the vehicle but has no idea what it should be. Change the your view of why, who or what is using the vehicle.
Edit: need to read when a watch or the whole post before replying
Give a junkyard and workshop, or just a good tree to work under. We will give something you never dreamed or had nightmares about yet.
For example, did we really need a car that incorporated its own mixing desk? = 89er HU based tech using sound based powers
Or a vehicle that featured a hovercraft deck at the back? = Recon drone or Overarmed UAVs need somewhere to rest.
is that the Rinspeed X-Trem? Love that concept. So many way to use it.
Where else can the water based DBee ride and drive from that the pool, open or covered.
What else is there?
Open your mind a little. Read it as someone who describing the vehicle but has no idea what it should be. Change the your view of why, who or what is using the vehicle.
Edit: need to read when a watch or the whole post before replying
..now I'm looking at it with the mind of 'we learn more from our mistakes than our successes'...
Re: Paladin Steel Storefront
Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2011 1:42 pm
Shark_Force wrote:Veritas476 wrote:Does anyone remember where the background for PS was in this enormous thread?
sorta scattered all over. hang on a sec...
Post 1
Post 2
Post 3
Post 4
Post 5
Post 6
that's all my indexed stuff so far
just go to those posts, click on the stuff you want to read, and there you go
it doesn't include everything completely up-to-date though...
Thanks, Shark_Force. Doesn't need to be up to date. I just need it for a reference point.
Edit: While I still appreciate the above links I think I was misunderstood in what I was asking for. I remember Taalismn posting background information on Paladin Steel. I've lost track of that particular post and was wondering where it was.
Re: Paladin Steel Storefront
Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2011 3:38 pm
Edit: While I still appreciate the above links I think I was misunderstood in what I was asking for. I remember Taalismn posting background information on Paladin Steel. I've lost track of that particular post and was wondering where it was.
Maybe the following might help you find what you are looking for.
abtex wrote:Veritas476 wrote:Does anyone remember where the background for PS was in this enormous thread?
taalismn loves the word 'history'
Post 6 has
Paladin Steel Officers and Divisions: in it
This is taalismn's first history of PS
It starts here http://forums.palladium-megaverse.com/viewtopic.php?p=2199152#p2199152 and goes for 3 or 4 postings
Re: Paladin Steel Storefront
Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2011 8:27 pm
Here's a placeholder while I work on bigger stuff...
Paladin Steel PSLP-6 ‘SunFang’ Light Laser Pistol
(aka ‘Fang’)
“The Fang’s about as cheap as PS is willing to go, to their credit, because they have no intention on stinting on quality of build. That’s what the Fang is in its favor; not range or damage, because a whole lot of Northern Gun and Wilks products got it beat on both, but reliability. This thing will work on the first shot, regardless of whether it was in your jacket pocket when you got heaved through a bar window, got pushed into the mud when you got bushwhacked, or has spent a few years sitting hidden and neglected in your closet or desk until you finally need it. This thing WILL work!”
---Feger Churchill, Headhunter
Paladin Steel tried to outdo its own success with its PSLP-3 ‘Asp’ laser pistol by creating an even smaller and more compact weapon in the PSLP-6, meant to try to capture a chunk of the low-cost self-defense/hold-out market. PS scaled up the workings of the already compact and commonplace bionic laser finger blaster to use bulkier and less expensive materials and machining, and housed the workings in a frame that resembled, to many, a snub-nosed Luger with a ‘needle’ barrel. The weapon is fully compatible with both laser finger power cells and regular e-clips. The ‘SunFang’ also has a selector switch that allows the weapon to be changed between a less-powerful low-power mode suitable for engaing non-MDC targets(or hunting) and the higher-powered armor-blasting mode.
The PSLP-6 is not particularly powerful, but has good range for a hold-out weapon, and is light and compact. Though not as cheap as many ‘budget’ weapons already out on the market, the ‘Fang’ is much more reliable, and is quite inexpensive for its versatility.
Unlike most other PS weapons, the SunFang doesn’t come with a range of bells and whistles; basic simplicity and focus on concept are what it’s all about. A simple, basic, low-cost laser pistol for self-defense.
Given PS’s tendancy towards utilitarian, no-nonsense designs, it does come as a mystery to some why PS has also offered the PSLP-6 in a ‘crystal’ model with a clear-plastic body-styling that one critic called ‘a megadeath squirtgun look’; reportedly the model is being marketed offworld.
The PSLP-6 hasn’t been adopted in any official capacity by the GNE, although it is carried by many PS employees in the field, and is used by some constabularies for its dual-damage capability. The weapon has thus far seen only lukewarm sales on the general market, due to stiff competition from Northern Gun and other manufacturers producing weapons with heavier hitting power(albeit at higher price).
Weight: 1.6 lbs
MDC:5
Range: 300 ft
Damage:(SD) 4d6 SD per shot
(MD) 1d4 MD per shot
Rate of Fire: ECHH
Payload: 12 shots from a mini-power cell, or 30 shots from a regular e-clip. 1 MD shot equals 10 SD shots
Cost: 5,000 credits
Special Features:
*Top Rail for mounting an optional laser spot sight(+1 to strike) or flashlight.
Options:
*’Crystal’ Frame---This merely sheathes the weapon in a transparent MD plastic body (based on megadamage window and canopy materials). The change in material adds +1,000 credits to the cost, but apparently the extra styling has a niche market on Phase World, where the weapon sells best.
*Paladin Steel PSLP-6C
This is a limited edition Fang laser pistol constructed with special ‘memory’ materials and active nanite configuration that allows the already compact weapon to fold and compress itself into a smaller, more easily concealed, shape, such as a belt buckle-, cigarrette pack-, or e-clip-size.
Cost: 10,000 credits. For an additional 2,000 credits it can be fingerprint-locked, or for 5,000 credits ‘genelocked’, responding only to a specific DNA pattern.
Paladin Steel PSLP-6 ‘SunFang’ Light Laser Pistol
(aka ‘Fang’)
“The Fang’s about as cheap as PS is willing to go, to their credit, because they have no intention on stinting on quality of build. That’s what the Fang is in its favor; not range or damage, because a whole lot of Northern Gun and Wilks products got it beat on both, but reliability. This thing will work on the first shot, regardless of whether it was in your jacket pocket when you got heaved through a bar window, got pushed into the mud when you got bushwhacked, or has spent a few years sitting hidden and neglected in your closet or desk until you finally need it. This thing WILL work!”
---Feger Churchill, Headhunter
Paladin Steel tried to outdo its own success with its PSLP-3 ‘Asp’ laser pistol by creating an even smaller and more compact weapon in the PSLP-6, meant to try to capture a chunk of the low-cost self-defense/hold-out market. PS scaled up the workings of the already compact and commonplace bionic laser finger blaster to use bulkier and less expensive materials and machining, and housed the workings in a frame that resembled, to many, a snub-nosed Luger with a ‘needle’ barrel. The weapon is fully compatible with both laser finger power cells and regular e-clips. The ‘SunFang’ also has a selector switch that allows the weapon to be changed between a less-powerful low-power mode suitable for engaing non-MDC targets(or hunting) and the higher-powered armor-blasting mode.
The PSLP-6 is not particularly powerful, but has good range for a hold-out weapon, and is light and compact. Though not as cheap as many ‘budget’ weapons already out on the market, the ‘Fang’ is much more reliable, and is quite inexpensive for its versatility.
Unlike most other PS weapons, the SunFang doesn’t come with a range of bells and whistles; basic simplicity and focus on concept are what it’s all about. A simple, basic, low-cost laser pistol for self-defense.
Given PS’s tendancy towards utilitarian, no-nonsense designs, it does come as a mystery to some why PS has also offered the PSLP-6 in a ‘crystal’ model with a clear-plastic body-styling that one critic called ‘a megadeath squirtgun look’; reportedly the model is being marketed offworld.
The PSLP-6 hasn’t been adopted in any official capacity by the GNE, although it is carried by many PS employees in the field, and is used by some constabularies for its dual-damage capability. The weapon has thus far seen only lukewarm sales on the general market, due to stiff competition from Northern Gun and other manufacturers producing weapons with heavier hitting power(albeit at higher price).
Weight: 1.6 lbs
MDC:5
Range: 300 ft
Damage:(SD) 4d6 SD per shot
(MD) 1d4 MD per shot
Rate of Fire: ECHH
Payload: 12 shots from a mini-power cell, or 30 shots from a regular e-clip. 1 MD shot equals 10 SD shots
Cost: 5,000 credits
Special Features:
*Top Rail for mounting an optional laser spot sight(+1 to strike) or flashlight.
Options:
*’Crystal’ Frame---This merely sheathes the weapon in a transparent MD plastic body (based on megadamage window and canopy materials). The change in material adds +1,000 credits to the cost, but apparently the extra styling has a niche market on Phase World, where the weapon sells best.
*Paladin Steel PSLP-6C
This is a limited edition Fang laser pistol constructed with special ‘memory’ materials and active nanite configuration that allows the already compact weapon to fold and compress itself into a smaller, more easily concealed, shape, such as a belt buckle-, cigarrette pack-, or e-clip-size.
Cost: 10,000 credits. For an additional 2,000 credits it can be fingerprint-locked, or for 5,000 credits ‘genelocked’, responding only to a specific DNA pattern.
Re: Paladin Steel Storefront
Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2011 9:46 pm
abtex wrote:Maybe the following might help you find what you are looking for.
taalismn loves the word 'history'
Post 6 has
Paladin Steel Officers and Divisions: in it
This is taalismn's first history of PS
It starts here http://forums.palladium-megaverse.com/viewtopic.php?p=2199152#p2199152 and goes for 3 or 4 postings
Ah ok, and yeah that's what I was looking for. Thank you Abtex.