Life & Temperatures on Titan

[DataPacRat]

New question: What do you think an aircraft with both a gasbag and helicopter rotors would look like?


Given that Titan's clouds are opaque to visual light, I just spent some time doodling out a spy-aircraft with Spaceships, aiming to maximize stealthiness. Just about every drive and power-point system makes it easier to detect a hovering aircraft than just floating with gasbags, so I started with those. Titan's atmosphere doesn't have oxygen, and I'm guessing that the fusion air-ram from SS7 is pretty detectable (given the mention of it in 3e's Vehicles' sensors chapter), which seems to leave rotors as the stealthiest available movement option.

(In Mass Combat terms, what I ended up with comes very close to a Close Air Support aircraft; slightly cheaper but also providing C3I.)

Anyone care to suggest tweaks?


* Titanian surveillance balloon, Mark One
* SM+4, Streamlined: 10 tons, dST/HP 15, Hnd/SR 0/4
- Exposed Radiators
- Slower Industrial Systems
- Stealth (-8): $125k
- Dynamic Chameleon (-4 to detect with vision): $90k
- Winged: $50k
- Self Healing, 0.15 HP/day, $200k
* Systems:
3: Armor, Diamondoid, dDR 5/5/5: $300k
1: Control Room, C6 computer, comm/sensor 3, 0 control stations: $10k
- Advanced Interface (+1 Piloting): $50k
3: Defensive ECM: $300k
1: Tactical Array, level 5: $100k
4: Gasbags, 12 tons lift: $80k
1: Helicopter Rotors, 200 mph, req 1 pp: $30k
2: IR Masking (Pyr94p8, -8 to detect): $300k
3: Maneuver Enhancement (+3 Handling): $45k
1: Power Plant, Perpetual Motion, 1 PP: $60k
1: Weapon, Major Battery, Conventional Gun, Very Rapid Fire (2cm, 1,000 shots, 300 rpm, dDmg 6d*5, avg norm-scale damage 1,050): $100k
. [2cm ammo, 1,000 rounds: 0.25 tons, $25k]
* Cost so far: $1.84M
* Efficient Design (Pyr40p6, -1 SM to be detected or targetted): x2 final cost
* Total Cost: $3.68M (monthly maintenance $147.2k, monthly logistics $294.4k)
* Mass Combat TS: 7,800; Air, C3I