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"Azure Harrier" Support Cruiser

(Nobody can agree on ship classifications in this game, so I'm making something up.)

My first large ship that wasn't a box with a dozen thrusters on one end and a dozen drills on the other. Also my first time designing anything substantial in creative mode. It's still boxy, but less so, and in a kind of... stylistic way. (Entirely vanilla, no DLC required.)

I probably didn't engineer this all that well. I was more focused on getting something that worked at all than I was on getting something that worked well. It moves fine in space, even with the hydrogen thrusters shut off, but it's only good in a straight line and doesn't turn as well as I'd like. Two hydrogen tanks, four oxygen tanks, two large reactors, and 14 small cargo containers - probably more than necessary, but entirely functional. It's also got an assembler, refinery, and medical room, as well as six Gatling turrets and a decently large hangar in the rear, so you could probably use this as a mobile base if you can keep it fueled. One jump drive, with an admittedly sub-par range of 670 km. It can land on and take off from a moon if the hydrogen thrusters are activated, but if you try to take it anywhere within 30 km of a planet you are probably going to make a very lovely crater.

But hey, the doors are all automatic. The bridge has a very nice view, and there's a secondary control room (with no view at all) in case you get into an actual fight and don't want to stand in a glass room. And there's enough interior space left over that you could probably customize it a bit without having to take too much apart. So those are all pluses.

So yeah, it's not amazing. But for a first serious attempt? I'm pretty proud of it. It has a kind of a charm to it, if you look at it with sufficiently low expectations.

Detailed specs:

• mass: 3,730,895 kg
  
• length approx. 100 meters (40 blocks)
  
• width approx. 67.5 meters (27 blocks)
  
• total 4,133 blocks, 16,378 PCU
  
• hydrogen thrusters: 2 large (forward), 14 small (up)
  
• ion thrusters: 10 large (6 forward, 2 backward, 1 left, 1 right), 46 small (8 backward, 4 left, 4 right, 16 up, 14 down)
  
• 2 hydrogen tanks (10 ML hydrogen storage)
  
• 4 oxygen tanks (400 kL oxygen storage)
  
• 2 O2/H2 generators
  
• 2 large reactors
  
• 2 batteries
  
• 14 small cargo containers (218,750‬ L item storage)
  
• 6 Gatling turrets (top)
  
• 10 gyroscopes
  
• 1 jump drive, max jump distance 670 km
  
• hangar bay: 22.5 m (9 large blocks) width, 10 m (4 large blocks) height, 30 m (12 large blocks) depth
  
• 2 connectors in hangar bay, 2 connectors on underside of hull
  
• 4 landing gear
  
• 1 gravity generator
  
• 1 refinery (1 speed module, 1 yield module, 2 power efficiency modules attached by default)
  
• 1 assembler (1 speed module attached by default; I kind of messed up the placement so there isn't much room for more modules)
  
• 1 antenna
  
• 1 medical room
  
• 1 ore detector
  
• 1 programmable block
  
• 1 remote control
  
• 1 projector