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Hivebender Missile Cruiser (Decommissioned)

The Hivebender carries 40 hammerhead homing missiles and 36 decoy sensor drones, all deployable by a touch of a button. It is fully survival ready, with all the required connections in place. While the Hivebender itself is insanely expensive to build, the hammerhead missiles are fully survival friendly and designed to maximize destruction to cost ratio. The Hivebender is designed to operate at a range of more than 3km.

This is a vanilla ship, no mods are required.



Watch Hivebender Tutorial video at:
https://youtu.be/c7GY3XNaBNM

For quick operation, follow the steps below:

1) Enter Control Station located at the back of the ship.
2) Click Bar #1 Button #7 to start all computers.
3) Switch to Bar #8.
4) Click Button #9 to enter front camera (Light is Blue to indicate computers are started).
5) Click Button #4 to select long range targeting.
6) Click Button #3 to start target seeking (Light turns Green).
7) Aim at target until light turns Red (Target Locked).
8) Click Button #1 to launch one missile (Click again for more).
9) To launch decoy drone, click Button #2.
10) You can toggle locking by clicking Button #3 (Light is Blue if unlocked).

You don't need to maintain aim at target as the target is tracked automatically. However, you must have line of sight to the target, including edges. Target must also be in front of the ship. Don't turn to the side. For moving targets, maintain lock until missile impacts.



Remote Locking

Lock on targets up to 100km away. Clear line of sight required from cruiser to target. After the initial locking via pointing ship nose at target, the cruiser is free to point and lock on other targets. Up to 5 targets can be locked at a time, depending on your CPU power. This locking quite CPU intensive.

Ansible Locking

A swarm of decoy sensor drones are sent out to a fleet of enemy ships. When the drones carry the sensors near to the targets, it tracks up to 30 of them. Once the lock command is engaged, the largest 10 ships are selected and missiles can be launched based on the 10 targets. This locking requires the initial difficult task of guiding the drone swarm to with sensor range of the targets. This locking is extremely accurate and not susceptible to decoy diversion. *Sensor API changed, no longer working*
[/strike] *Sensor API changed. Ansible lock-on no longer working*

Turret Locking

Two turret beams are used to triangulate the enemy ship position and missile is launched towards it. This is a last resort targeting and is susceptible to decoy diversion. If you are using this, you are basically screwed.



Type: Mass Impactor
Speed: 0 to 104.5 m/s in ~5 seconds (5k rocks)
Turn Speed: 180 degrees in 0.5 seconds
Agility Class: Extreme
Grid Type: Small ship
Dimensions: 5 x 5 x 11 blocks (2.5m x 2.5m x 5.5m)

Tips: Either move away at max speed or pull 1.5Gs (~15m/s2) to avoid torpedo.



The Hivebender Missile Cruiser has 40 missiles for pure destruction fun. The component cost to build each missile:

117 Steel Plate
12 Thruster Components
22 Computer
15 Motor
20 Power Cell
4 Small Steel Tube
9 Large Steel Tube
56 Construction Component
77 Interior Plate
2 Display
5000 ~ 42229 Stone

When broken down to raw materials, the material cost to build each missile:

4449.5 Iron Ingots
115 Nickel Ingots
34.4 Silicon Wafers
120 Cobalt Ingots
12 Gold Ingots
4.8 Platinum Ingots
5000 ~ 42229 Stones



Toolbar #1

Btn #1 - Jump Drive #1. Used for setting and jumping into enemy territories.
Btn #2 - Jump Drive #2. Used for preset for emergency home jump.
Btn #3 - On/Off Gatling Turrets.
Btn #4 - On/Off Missile Turrets.
Btn #5 - Open/Close Missile Bay Hangar Doors.
Btn #6 -
Btn #7 - Start all onboard computers. Activate this every map load.
Btn #8 - View Bridge Camera. This is for viewing status display panels.
Btn #9 - View Front Camera. Used for aiming Remote Targeting system.

Toolbar #2 *Sensor API changed. Ansible lock-on no longer working*

Toolbar #3 *Sensor API changed. Ansible lock-on no longer working*

Toolbar #4 *Sensor API changed. Ansible lock-on no longer working*

Toolbar #5

Btn #1 - Toggle Lock/Unlock of Remote Target #1.
Btn #2 - Toggle Lock/Unlock of Remote Target #2.
Btn #3 - Toggle Lock/Unlock of Remote Target #3.
Btn #4 - Toggle Lock/Unlock of Remote Target #4.
Btn #5 - Toggle Lock/Unlock of Remote Target #5.
Btn #6 -
Btn #7 - Unbind all missiles targeting Ansible Targets.
Btn #8 - Release and re-detects all Ansible Targets.
Btn #9 - Toggle Lock/Unlock of Ansible Targets. (Select top largest set of ships and output coordinates)

Toolbar #6

Btn #1 - Reset Remote Target #1.
Btn #2 - Reset Remote Target #2.
Btn #3 - Reset Remote Target #3.
Btn #4 - Reset Remote Target #4.
Btn #5 - Reset Remote Target #5.
Btn #6 -
Btn #7 - Reset Ansible Sensors. (Release and re-detects all Ansible Sensors)
Btn #8 -
Btn #9 -

Toolbar #7

Btn #1 - Toggle Lock/Unlock of Turret Targeting.
Btn #2 - Select Target #16. (Turret Target)
Btn #3 -
Btn #4 - Control Manual Targeting Beam.
Btn #5 - Decrease Manual Beam Distance by 100m and recalculate coordinates.
Btn #6 - Increase Manual Beam Distance by 100m and recalculate coordinates.
Btn #7 - Recalculate coordinates based on targeted direction and distance.
Btn #8 - Select Target #17. (Manual Beam Target)
Btn #9 -

Toolbar #8

Btn #1 - Launch one missile.
Btn #2 - Launch one drone.
Btn #3 - Toggle Lock/Unlock of Remote Target #1.
Btn #4 - Select Target #11. (Remote Target #1)
Btn #5 - Toggle Lock/Unlock of Remote Target #2.
Btn #6 - Select Target #12. (Remote Target #2)
Btn #7 - Toggle Lock/Unlock of Remote Target #3.
Btn #8 - Select Target #13. (Remote Target #3)
Btn #9 - Target Aiming Camera.

Toolbar #9

Btn #1 - Toggle On/Off Exterior Lights.
Btn #2 - Toggle On/Off Interior Lights.
Btn #3 -
Btn #4 -
Btn #5 -
Btn #6 -
Btn #7 -
Btn #8 -
Btn #9 - Toggle On/Off Missile Projectors.



The test world can be found at:
http://gtm.steamproxy.vip/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=533481166

This Hivebender Missile Cruiser uses the following scripts:

Bumblebee Script, for controlling drone swarm to send sensor near enemy ships:
http://gtm.steamproxy.vip/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=532923105

Ansible Dispatcher Script, for tracking detected ships by the drone swarm and output them to Targeting Text Panels:
http://gtm.steamproxy.vip/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=532920131

Remote Targeting Script, for long range target locking:
http://gtm.steamproxy.vip/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=539072596

Cruise Missile Script, for controlling the homing missiles when Targeting Text Panels receives coordinates:
http://gtm.steamproxy.vip/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=420552937