[Star Wars, 3e] Vohoi Unirail

[Phaelen Bleux]

Kuat Drive Yards Model 10-T Unirail (TL11)
One of the more interesting forms of transportation can be found in the Parmel Sector, on the planet Vohoi (or rather above the planet). The Vohoi Unirail is a form of transportation based loosely on the super-conductive monorail technology found on lesser technology worlds, but the system is much more sophisticated than the name implies.

The unirail track is a suspended cable of superconductive wire, strung roughly two kilometers above the surface of Vohoi, held aloft with repulsorlifts, circling the entire planet from pole to pole. Each car is also equipped with several redundant repulsorlift units in the event of an emergency. To date the unirail has a perfect operational safety record.

The unirail consists of a control car and 45 cars, each linked together. The unirail has 34 passenger cars (containing suites and staterooms) and 11 dining/casino cars.

The unirail is famous for its spectacular views and sunsets, and is popular among the affluent, who often pay the outrageous ticket price to board simply to impress other affluent people. A travelling vacation of the unirail (one week) costs 6,500 credits at a minimum!

Since Vohoi is relatively remote, the unirail is often used as a letter drop or contact point for both the Rebel Alliance and the Empire. Intrigue tends to run rampant aboard the unirail.

The entire train is 1,150 meters long. It carries a crew of 100, as well as 1,500 passengers and 3 metric tons of cargo (6,615 lbs.).

Control Car:
Subassemblies: Body with Fair Streamlining +7.
Power and Propulsion: 400,000-lb. Mag-Lev Lifter with 4,051-kW Electric Contact Power Plant. For emergencies, a 400,000-lb. Contragrav Generator with 720,000-kWs Rechargeable Power Cell (30 minutes use).
Occupancy: 3 NCS with Bridge space.
Cargo: 6,615 lbs. (331 cf.)

Armor
All: 4/150 (Radiation PF 10).

Equipment:
Body: Transponder, 3 small computers with 3 terminals (Complexity 5), RVO program, long-range communicator (50,000-mile), 20-mile PESA (Scan 20), complete mechanic mini-worshop, two automeds, 100 bunks, 1,000 man-days limited life support, 3 crashwebs, 18,680 man-days of provisions.

Statistics:
Size: ? x ? x ? Payload: 125 tons Lwt.: 195 tons
Volume: 20,000 cf. Maint.: 13 hours Price: $2,438,370

HT: 12. HPs: 13,263 Body.

mSpeed: 56 mAccel: 0.1 mDecel: 10 mMR: 0.25 mSR: 6
Stall Speed: 0.

Passenger Car:
Subassemblies: Body +8.
Power and Propulsion: 220,000-lb. Mag-Lev Lifter with 2,226-kW Electric Contact Power Plant. For emergencies, a 220,000-lb. Contragrav Generator with 442,800-kWs Rechargeable Power Cell (30 minutes use).
Occupancy: 52 passengers.
Cargo: 0

Armor
All: 4/150 (Radiation PF 10).

Equipment:
Body: 6 luxury cabins. 20 cabins, superior access (hallways), 520 man-days limited life support.

Statistics:
Size: ? x ? x ? Payload: 5.2 tons Lwt.: 101 tons
Volume: 40,000 cf. Maint.: 14 hours Price: $2,078,756

HT: 12. HPs: 21,750 Body.

Dining/Casino Car:
Subassemblies: Body +8.
Power and Propulsion: 220,000-lb. Mag-Lev Lifter with 2,309-kW Electric Contact Power Plant. For emergencies, a 220,000-lb. Contragrav Generator with 442,800-kWs Rechargeable Power Cell (30 minutes use).
Occupancy: 360 passengers.
Cargo: 0

Armor
All: 4/150 (Radiation PF 10).

Equipment:
Body: 200-person capacity dining hall, 160-person capacity casino, 360-person environmental control.

Statistics:
Size: ? x ? x ? Payload: 36 tons Lwt.: 86 tons
Volume: 40,000 cf. Maint.: 14 hours Price: $2,102,920

HT: 12. HPs: 21,750 Body.

Design Notes:
Control Car Body is 20,000 cf with Fair Streamlining; other cars are 40,000 cf with no Streamlining. All cars have Heavy, Standard Structure and are Sealed. All Armor is Expensive Metal. Computerized controls. Design speed was 80/59/100 mph for the Control/Passenger/Dining car respectively. The “historical” value is shown above.

Each passenger car has accommodations for 52 people at 2 per room; this actually gives the train a passenger capacity of 1,768 passengers. The casino was designed as a holoventure room, to represent the electronic bling of high-tech gambling. The luxury cabins are 1.7x “normal” size. The dining/casino cars only have enough life-support for 1 day at capacity; it is assume that in an emergency, passengers are told to return to the passenger cars for safety, life support, and panic control. Both cars are equipped with an emergency back-up contragrav generator and power cell that allow for a 30 minute safe descent to the planet should a problem arise.

The control car has separate bunks for all crew; all spare luggage and provisions are also carried in this car. Crew are assumed to go back into the train when on shift but reside here. The train is provisioned for 10 days; a typical vacation trip is 1 week as noted in the flavor text. On p. S51, the costs of luxury interplanetary transport is $1,000 per day; this fits nicely with the original source’s costs for a 1 week trip (of 1,344 miles per day; a 1 week could get a traveler from pole to pole if the trip was nearly non-stop).