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LIGHT FRIGATE SARATOGA (LFG - Light Frigate Guided)
   
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Type: Blueprint
Mod category: Exploration
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20 Jan, 2018 @ 5:34pm
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LIGHT FRIGATE SARATOGA (LFG - Light Frigate Guided)

Description
While traveling from a vacation one of the GTF engineers happened to look out the window and saw a GLADIUS CLASS LIGHT FRIGATE in upper orbit. Since personal electronics are secured until the craft breaks from planetary gravity a quick scketch on the back of a napkin was all designers had to work with.

It is said that this Napkin is behind the commissioning plaque.

Built on a budget and delivered on time the SARATOGA CLASS Light Frigate brings utility to the class. A plethra of missile and gattling turrets provide point defense and area denial against drone/torpedos. she is outfitted with a single anti-captial ship missile construction/launching bay making her a plausable threat even to much larger capital ships. Preliminary tests also showed the gravity bombing of targets from outside a gravity well to be possible.

The first of her series she was quickly adopted by the Star-System Militia(coast guard in space) for her low cost, and high success rate against the various space pirate clans/drones. The Navy typically employs her in a picket role.

Every nook and cranny has been utilized to the maximum as production and fiscal concerns grew. with the jump drive alone taking up sixty percent of the budget Space Engineers took the challenge of ensuring that this ship would be more than just a dock crawler. Hydrogen for main thrusters with emergency reserve ion thrusters. A nuclear reactor with multiple battery backups, and should all else fail solar panels while you wait for rescue.

Designed to be produced quickly she can be crewed by four or only one depending on the needs of the fleet.

Let LFG SARATOGA and her sister ships be the Light that pierces the darkest night.

Survival built and tested. Nothing about this ship was done in creative.

Special thanks to MMaster, Whiplash141, [UESC]B.A. Stratus. WIthout your inspiration I would never have had the idea. thank you so much and enjoy.

UPDATE 07FEB18 - refreshed the Screenshots/video to reflect the visual Major update...Check out the new video and see if you can't see the next ship in the line. comment below

UPDATE 25JUL19 - was able to construct LFG in a Never Surrender Scenario. It survived 17 waves on its own without reloads/repairs before being overrun. Share your experiences below. ;)

Her sister ships are now online:

https://gtm.steamproxy.vip/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1276361233 Light Frigate Rail

https://gtm.steamproxy.vip/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1371106645 Light Frigate Medical

https://gtm.steamproxy.vip/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1432780495 Light Frigate Supply

https://gtm.steamproxy.vip/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1513946412 LIGHT FRIGATE ASSAULT

a tribute to the inspiration that started it all:
https://gtm.steamproxy.vip/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=720872427&searchtext=gladius
7 Comments
Dempsey  [author] 30 Oct, 2019 @ 4:13am 
@xXMrPenguineXx the capability is there for it to fire a torpedo. it was specifically designed with Whiplash141 guided missile script in mind. the missile is built, configured, and saved as a blueprint that you then align with the projector(there is a camera in the launch bay). I would recommend setting the delay in the launch script to seven or eight to ensure that the missile clears. This was designed like this on purpose so that anyone could develop their own variant of torpedo. Hope this helps and thanks for visiting.
xXMrPenguinXx 30 Oct, 2019 @ 2:57am 
How do you use the missile?
Whiplash141 1 Feb, 2018 @ 6:03pm 
It's all worth it to see cool ships like this :)
Dempsey  [author] 1 Feb, 2018 @ 5:26pm 
@ Whiplash141. Thank you and honored by your visit. Thank you for the awesome scripts that helped push SE further.
Whiplash141 31 Jan, 2018 @ 6:00pm 
Nice work man :)
Dempsey  [author] 27 Jan, 2018 @ 5:19pm 
@ The Office Drone. Thank you very much for the feed back. I am working on a couple of variants right now so stay tuned. They are all being built survival so taking a little bit of time:steamhappy:
The Drone 27 Jan, 2018 @ 10:38am 
Great ship! I love the design, and it packs quite the punch!