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Firestorm

Updated 26/11/2013 - Added airlock door to cargo bay

47'811'436 kg
59404 blocks total
220 blocks/550 metres length

It's taken me four weeks. Constant crashes. At one point near the end I could only add a dozen armour blocks at a time before it hung and I had to kill the process. And then I accidentally saved while piloting it, which prevented the save from loading again (a common issue I think). I tried using SpaceEditor to copy the ship to a new world, but it wouldn't import - I think because of the size. I had to edit the save file and manually copy the XML for the ship (all 40MB of it) to a new save.

Acceleration is not too bad for its size - forwards, it's 83% as quickly-accelerating as the Red ship.
It's not so great at turning though, even with 316 Gyroscopes.

Some design features:

Most of the hull is 2 armour blocks and 1 interior wall block thick. The flat outer wall of the engine pods is 3 armour and 1 interior wall.
It has a full interior, though many of the rooms are empty.
Every room has a door, and corridors have doors where they link together.
Every "industrial area" (engine/reactor room) has ladders and catwalks so you can walk up to every reactor/large thruster.
Every door leading outside or into the hangar is airlocked (double-doored).
You can walk from anywhere on the ship to anywhere, without having to enter a secure area (engine/reactor room). A number of those areas have sealed, windowed walkways so you can pass through the area without having to enter it.
There is a windowed corridor that runs the entire perimeter of the forward hull.


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