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MCRN Longbow Class Destroyer

Modded: Yes
Vanilla: Nope
Survival Ready: Yes
Planetary Capable: Yes, vertically. Landing gears and parachutes equipped.
DLC Blocks: Yes. For aesthetics, not structurally necessary.


Length: 48 Blocks, 120 Meters.
Size: 3,502 Blocks. 24,284 PCU.
Dry Tonnage: 3,307 Tons.
Max Jump Distance: 2,268 Km.
Max Acceleration: ~22.0 m / s^2


Knightmare Defense Industries presents the MCRN version of the Longbow Class Destroyer. A light destroyer purpose-built for modded combat, the Longbow offers a variety of powerful long range weaponry on a light platform. It carries 6 dual Torpedo/Missile tubes, a fixed, forward firing 250mm railgun, 2 twin 150mm railgun turrets and 14 Point Defense Cannons. While not as fast as some ships, the Longbow is highly maneuverable and can bring its armament to bear with speed. The Longbow is named for the old Welsh longbow, which proved to be a very effective weapon time and time again.

The Longbow uses a complex Hydrogen-Ion Drive which produces 73 MN of force. The Jump Drives are capable of a mximum jump distance of 2,764 KM. The ship carries 14 MCRN Retractable Point Defense Cannons, 7 Interior Turrets, 6 each of M-1 Torpedo launchers and M-8 Destroyer Missile launchers, 1 fixed forward firing Northwind 250mm Railgun, and 2 Northwind Twin 150mm Railgun Turrets. Power is primarily supplied by 2 Large Reactors, with several Small Reactors and Batteries as backup. The hull is mostly light armor, with a few layers of heavy armor around vital components and at the front. The ship has a medical bay, basic production facilities, and survival kit. Parachutes and Landing Gear are attached for planetary operations.

The ship is built with modded weapons, but is otherwise fully vanilla and survival ready, with an interior in the style of "The Expanse." I use a light changing script to switch around the interior light settings. Its an older script and I couldn't find the original creator. The script was updated by ColTeH for my use. I used some of Whiplash141's scripts on the ship, including their braking script for "flip and burn" situations, and a few of their mods for taking the screenshots. The mods I used to assist with the screenshots came recommended by Taidyr, who makes some fantastic content as well. I used Darth Biomech's Milky Way Skybox mod as well. Links below. I got inspiration for this ship from ships shown in The Expanse RPG book, I highly recommend The Expanse's books and show.

Whiplash141's Workshop

Taidyr's Workshop

Milky Way Skybox by Darth Biomech

If you want an Epstein Drive Mod, I recommend the Aryx-Lynxon Epstein Drives , which has a variety of detailed models available. The Tachi's model would probably fit, its 5x5x5, though it does stick out a bit compared to the vanilla thrust cone which is shorter and wider.

If you want a UNN version of my modded MCRN ships or an MCRN version of my vanilla KDI/UNN ships, then I recommend this block recoloring mod, which will greatly simplify the process. Color Replacer Blocks - V2

Please feel free to modify the ship to fit your in game needs. Just be sure to give credit to the original creator.


Alright. Kind of surprised this is the first ship I finished after getting back into the SE mood. Not displeased, but it was the 3rd design I had started. The other two may not even be finished, though I'm hoping I'll get to them. The Longbow was intentionally built with modded weapons in mind from the ground up. It is possible to convert it to vanilla weapons, probably without too much difficulty, but when compared to the Taranis or Eridania, the Longbow is either slower or more poorly armed in a vanilla context. Also this is the first workshop mention I'm making of the River Avon Shipyards at Cambria. Yay, I'm adding lore. Also one thing I want to address is that the size and armament for this ship is way off for canon Expanse scaling. If you desire more "realistic" armaments, I'd suggest replacing the two railgun turrets with PDC's or torpedoes, or both even. The main railgun is probably fine, considering what we've seen in The Expanse, but the two large railgun turrets on a destroyer? Not remotely, lol. But I wanted to make it more with SE gameplay in mind, so that's what I stuck with. I think that's just about everything I wanted to mention. Oh, and as for what the Longbow's design was based off of, several different ships actually. The front is a slight mix of inspiration from the Donnager and Pella, the rear is fairly original but not too different from UNN destroyer designs, in particular the Munroe Class which I used for inspiration as well, the actual engines are new ones I developed for a different project and the external engine hulls are based on the Amarok. I wonder if anyone reads these notes I leave. Probably not many, I imagine. Starlight Glimmer is best pony and Celestia is terrible. Or something like that. Half the reason I'm putting that there is to upset a friend. Anyways, I hope you enjoy the ship, and let me know if you want a vanilla version, as I'll work on making one if there is demand for it. Thanks!


If you have any questions, comments or feedback about the ship, please leave them in the comments below. I'm always looking to improve upon my work. If you enjoy the MCRN Longbow, likes are greatly appreciated. Thank you for browsing this item. Safe Voyages! Papple.