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Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!195.54.122.107!newsfeed1.bredband.com!bredband!newsfeed.sovam.com!nf1.bellglobal.com!nf2.bellglobal.com!news20.bellglobal.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Sender: Daniel Boese <dbo...@harpo.becon.org> From: DataPacRat <spam.datapacrat.s...@warren.kill.com> Subject: DataPacRat's datapacrats (TL8) Newsgroups: rec.games.frp.gurps User-Agent: tin/1.4.4-20000803 ("Vet for the Insane") (UNIX) (Linux/2.4.7 (i686)) Lines: 120 Message-ID: <rHdi7.6845$Hr2.409975@news20.bellglobal.com> Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2001 21:17:11 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 207.35.37.3 X-Complaints-To: abuse@sympatico.ca X-Trace: news20.bellglobal.com 998860631 207.35.37.3 (Sun, 26 Aug 2001 17:17:11 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2001 17:17:11 EDT Organization: Bell Sympatico Having just acquired "GURPS Robots", I've started playing around with the system. Here's one of the more interesting results - a small "courier" robot, the size of a real-life rat, that can scoot along at over 50 mph. With a range of 10 miles, their radios make them a wonderful platform to create a "distributed system" independent of any other network... (And yes, I know that the point-cost is meaningless if the 'bot isn't going to be a PC, but I wanted to check it anyway.) What do you think of them? ----- DataPacRat's datapacrats (TL8) Brain: Tiny, Compact (0.25 lbs, 0.005 cf, $400), Complexity 1. Absolute Timing, Doesn't Sleep, Eidetic Memory 2, Lightning Calculator, Mathematical Ability. Cannot Learn, Reprogrammable Dute, No Sense of Humor, Slave Mentality (-5 points). Sensors: Basic Sensors, Low-Resolution Hearing (-10 points), Low-Resolution Vision (nearsighted) (-25 points), Color-blind (-10 points), One eye (-10 points), No sense of Smell/Taste (-5 points) (0.4 lbs, 0.008 cf, $1,000). Communicator: Basic Communicator, Mute (-5 points) (0.2 lbs, 0.004 cf, $100). Arm Motor: ST 1 (0.2 lbs, 0.004 cf, $400, 0.005 kW). Reach: Close (7 inches). Drivetrain: Wheeled, 0.01 kW (0.075 lbs, 0.0015 cf, $1.50). 6 wheels (0.006 cf). Power System: rB cell (0.05 lbs, 0.005 cf, $30, 180 kWs). Power Requirement: 0.015 kW. Endurance: 3 hours, 20 minutes (-10 points). Can operate without "breathing" (20 points). Subassemblies: One arm (-20 points). Arm Design: Houses ST 1 motor (0.004 cf). Body Design: Houses brain, sensors, communicator, drivetrain, energy bank, and 0.0025 cf of cargo space (about 1 by 2 by 2.16 inches, holding up to 0.125 lbs / 2 oz), and 0.45 lbs riding on top (0.026 cf). High Pain Threshold, Immunity to Disease (20 points). No Naural Healing (-20 points). Surface Area: Total surface area 0.5 sf. Top Deck: 24 square inches. Size: 10.4 inches long, 2.3 inches wide, 2.16 inches tall. (Up to 54 can crowd into 1 square yard.) Structure: Super-Light, Advanced (0.075 lbs, $50). Hit Points: Arm: 1; Body: 1. Each wheel: 1. Armor: DR 1 laminate (0.05 lbs, $5, PD 1, LC 6) (29 points); Sealed ($10) (20 points); Appearance: Very Beautiful ($25) (25 points) Statistics: 1.875 lbs (0.0009375 tons); 0.03 cf (10.4 inches long); $1,676.50. Body ST 1, arm ST 1 (-80 points), DX 8 (-15 points), IQ 4 (-50 points), HT 12/1 (-35 points). Speed 26.13 (17.5 points). Legality Class 6. Size Modifier: -5; Inconvenient Size (-10 points). Move: 26. Dodge: 2. Step: 6 hexes. Termal Velocity (falling): 170 mph. Model Point Cost: -168.5 points. Vehicle Statistics: gSpeed 55 mph, gAccel 3 mph/s, gDecel 10 mph/s, gMR 1.5, gSR 3, gPressure 315 (Very Low, Offroad speed * 0.8). wSpeed 1 mph, wAccel 0.2 mph/s, wDecel 10 mph/s, wMR 0.75, wSR 4, wDraft 0.98 inches. Maintanance Interval: 491 hours (every 147 battery changes). Encumbrance: up to 2 lbs: Normal Move up to 6 lbs: Move * 80% = 22. up to 10 lbs: Move * 60% = 16. up to 15 lbs: Move * 40% = 10. up to 20 lbs: Move * 20% = 5. up to 30 lbs: Move = 1. One-handed lift: Max. 6 lbs. ----- Options: * Cheap: Cost * 0.8, HT -1. * Very Cheap: Cost * 0.5, HT -2. * Wheel blades (0.02 lbs, $1.98). * Neural Net, +2 DX Reflex Booster ($1,600, DX 10, IQ 5) (+90 points). * Gyrobalance ($5,000) (+15 points). * Surface Sensors ($600) (+0 points). * Micromanipulators ($1,600) (+15 points). * Electrified Surface (0.1 lbs, $5). * Replace the cargo space with Mass Storage (0.25 gig, $25). Any one of: * Solar Cells (0.025 lbs, 0.25 sf, $7.50, 0.01 kW). * Reflective Surface ($7.50) (+2 points). * Liquid Crystal Skin (0.1 lbs, $20). * Basic Chameleon System (0.2 lbs, $40) (+15 points). ----- Thank you for your time, -- DataPacRat The Rrangoon species is available at http://www.phantomcross.org/rrangoon/