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The Exodus (EX-37e)

- Please note; This submarine has now formally been released! A stocked variant has been added to the file designated the EX-37m, for those of you angling toward PVP or Mission play!
- Please note; this submarine requires the Mods EK-Armory, EK-Utility, EK Dockyard and EK-Gunnery to operate.
- This submarine is built toward campaign play and is understocked for missions, although there are sufficient standardised tools, medical and emergency supplies for a couple of early missions, a variant sub designated EX-73m is now included to facilitate sandbox and standalone mission play.

Howdy submariners! Thanks for taking the time to inspect my second foray into submarine design!

This sub came about from wanting a simple, yet challenging platform to tutor my fellows on when they were new to the game, without suffering from the headaches that burden the vanilla submarines; especially the Dugong and Azimuth. I very much look forward to reading your feedback!

Special thanks must be made to Fox and Grim, whom have never ceased to put up with my stubbornness, stopped me elecuting myself and others with my botched wiring and lived through the countless, painful, failed projects in between. Good hunting gentleman.

Model Version: v1.0 (Formal release)
Recommended Crew Size: 3 - 8,
Recommended Crew Experience: Beginner,
Class: Deep Diver,
Submarine Cost: 6750mk,
Power: Reactor, with manually activated backup battery.
Weapons:

• One forward mounted railgun with a standard five round loader, reduced reload time.
  
• Two mounted coilguns with mildly increased fire rate offset by a modest increase in power draw,
  
• Two discharge coil arrays covering the dorsal and keel aspects of the submarine.
  
• Rigged sonar and torpedo launcher tubes, allowing for hyper-energised pulses from said instillations to be used as an, albeit crude, localised acoustic-kinetic deterrent.
  
• Aft-Keel mounted depth charge launcher,
  
• Aft-Dorsal decoy/torpedo launcher.

The Exodus class submarine was the unexpected success of the colonial affairs Exodoi-Project Team and Naval Engineers from the Europan-Coalition Navy. In the early months of 2473, when scientific teams confirmed that Jupiter’s radiation output was increasing, figureheads from the largest remaining government bodies sought a way to move their populous through hostile waters. This posed many challenges including a lack of resources, few suitable passenger submarine chassis and decimated ranks of experienced senior submariner crewmen and women. In the desperation that followed a compromise was struck; a vessel designed to be crewed by the refugees that were escaping the invasive radiation, with senior leadership, training and guidance provided by Europan Naval personnel.

This ultimately developed into a submarine design that, although basic mechanically, was optimised toward orientation and task prioritisation for inexperienced crew. Whilst simultaneously allowing for modest senior oversight during missions to prevent major catastrophes from the newcomers. The Exodus was the end execution of that concept. Dozens of Exodus class vessels were completed in the build up toward the evacuation, and a great many of them continue to ferry outpost denizens deeper into the relative safety of the deeper waters.

- Aesthetically and functionally optimised layout, with clear labelling to ease orientation.
- Overwatch CCTV circuit that covers many of the internal bulkheads.
- Standardised helm-reactor shutdown circuit,
- Automated docking port reactor control circuit,
- Optional wide beam floodlight, or low-light vision preservation illumination for gunners,
- High capacity, battery based, backup power supply,
- Standardised material and medicinal fabrication suite with built-in mineral scanner,
- Minimised exterior lighting allowing for stealth runs,
- Well balanced ship defences with majority, but not absolute weapon arc coverage.
- Waterproof, status monitor integrated emergency stations in the central access shaft for rapid redeployment of personnel and resources, as well as damage control, during crisis.