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Iktar Battlecruiser

Once in a blu mun I come across a piece that takes my breath away. The picture of the original, which is still actively maintained though originally from 2014.

The ship is one of the most outstanding examples I've ever come across. I had very little to do to update it. I always start a refit by touching up the hull, I removed ramp armor and completed what appeared to be the intended color scheme. I also did a basic re-contour of the hull to smooth out the places that looked like they should be smothed out.

From there, the conveyor network was almost perfect but didn't take advantage of the secondary ports on the missile launchers, which I fixed up, saving a few conveyor blocks and allowing for a few more heavy armor blocks in the bow.

I added refineries, arc furnaces, and O2 prafanalia down in the plenum, and practiced extreme ninjitsu when adding the vents and conveyors I needed. My work in that regard was almost invisible. Because the ship weighs 21k tons, I had to use a mod hyperdrive. I tried to keep previous overhauls stock but found that jumping anything over 10k tons is hopeless with stock jumpies. Because the ship was 90% there from the start, the overhaul took only a few hours. Interestingly, no changes were required to seal the compartments.

All ships need a docking port. The roof was the only location that seemed to meet all requirements, so that's the only change that might be considered controversial.

The reactor output was almost perfectly balanced, but I had to add a few auxilary reactors in the bow to support the new equipment.


Original: http://gtm.steamproxy.vip/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=261804566

ROTOR WARNING: THE hangar doors are beautiful to the point of being breathtaking but use rotors, 4 rotors total.