Landram

GURPS Vehicles 2nd Edition

The Landram is one of the most common Colonial military vehicles seen. It is a general purpose personnel and cargo carrier, tracked for greater performance over rough terrain. The front section contains the driver and passenger section, while behind that is the cargo section. The vehicle is armoured to protect it from light arms fire and in military service, the vehicle is armed with a one-man open mount turret containing a twin linked heavy blaster cannon. Colonial shuttles are designed to be able to carry one of these vehicles as standard. The Landram comes in several varieties depending on the mission needed, and they can also be found in civilian duties, although with a lot of the military specific options removed. In military service, Landrams are not designed as front line attack vehicles - the weapon being a defensive measure - instead they are mainly used as scouting vehicles and cargo and people carriers. The vehicle is of a very boxy design and there is no access to the gun turret from inside the vehicle.

The Landram does not contain an onboard power supply for the heavy lasers - which require 1 D-Energy Cell each - but usually contains stores within the cargo space.

Price: 280,290 cubits TL: 10
Subassemblies: Tracks, Open mount turret
Propulsion: 200 kw Tracked drivetrain
Weaponary: Two linked 1,000 mj Colonial heavy lasers (open mount turret)
Weapon Accessories: Partial stabilisation for the laser weapons, universal mount
Instruments and Electronics: Long range radio (16,220 microns), scrambler, headlights, searchlights (1.6 microns), Passive radar (8 microns), chemical scanner (40 microns), radscanner (17 microns), meteorological sensors, navigation instruments, IFF, GPS
Miscellaneous: Duplicate manoeuvre controls
Controls: Electronic
Occupancy: Short, 2 roomy crew stations, 4 roomy passenger seats, environmental control
Power: 250 kw HP ceramic ICE engine
Fuel: self sealing 100 gallon tank, with 100 gallons av fuel
Acces, Cargo and Empty Space 100 cf cargo space, 8.588 of access space
Volumes: Body: 320.552 Tracks: 187.18, Open Mount: 2.268
Structure: Heavy Frame, standard materials
Hit Points: Body: 900, Tracks: 375, Open Mount: 22
Structural Options: Improved Suspension
Body Armour: Body: PD 4, DR 60 Standard Composite, Tracks: PD 4, DR 20, Open mount gun shield: PD 4, DR 40
Surface Features: Sealed
Vision: Fair
Statistics: Empty Weight: 5,013.81 lbs. Usual Payload: 3,200 lbs. Loaded Weight: 8,863.91 lbs. (4.43 tons) Volume: 510 cf Size Modifier: +4 Structural HT: 12
Ground Performance: Top Speed: 85 mph gAccel: 5 mph gDecel: 20 mph gMR: 0.5 gSR: 7 Off-Road Speed: 70 mph, Very low ground pressure

Cargoram The Cargoram is simply a standard Landram designed to hold more cargo rather than passengers. As a result, the passenger seats are ripped out, as are the chemical and radscanners and searchlight. The vehicle can then carry 229 cf of cargo and is some 38,320 cubits cheaper than the normal Landram. Civilian Landram The civilian Landram is very similar to the military Landram but with a lot of extras removed. These include the open mount turret, the scrambler, searchlight, passive radar, chemical and radscanners, IFF and GPS. The rest of the vehicle is as normal. It should be noted that most of the people who buy Landrams generally use them on frontier planets (and not on the Colonies themselves) and usually end up putting a lot of the removed equipment back, especially the weapons. Cost to civilians is 213,960 cubits.

Snowram

The Snowram is identical to the standard Landram but is adapted to artic conditions. Standard equipment includes better heating equipment and modified engines to operate in freezing temperature and below conditions.