I like the design. Plenty of space for some small vessels, decent cargo space, and enough weapons to take down any POI and many of my own ships that I have designed. There are however, two things that I suggest you change.

1) Space out the fuel cells or put combat steel between them.
If the armor over the fuel cells gives and a fuel cell is hit, a chain reaction will occur that will destroy all fuel cells and render the ship defenseless.

2) Relocate the core.
If someone or a POI is firing at your ship from the correct angle, your core, and a few other things, are highly exposed, as they are only covered by each other and a window.

If you fix those two things the Alkurah will be perfect.

@chad look on the ceiling of the room with all the cryo chambers in the floor!

I love this ship. I see that it's got constructors on board, but I can't find 'em. Where did you hide them?! :D

Its a damn good ship. I'm sorry for the poor humour, but first time I saw it I have to admit, the design reminded me so much of how some HVs use the harvester my first thought was, "damn, I'd hate to see the tree that was made for".
Well done!

sathium is the easiest ore to get?

15 fucking thousand sathium good grief

@derpy Gravity Cannons are a series of gravity generators that form a tube to propel players from 0 to 600m/s in a near instant. Getting the tubes built in such a way that it wont kill the occupant is a bit tricky sometimes, but the variable in length of the barrel determines the overall speed of the cannon. Also of note, make sure to place a generator on each size of the barrel. There should be four per segment, one to a side, while going down the barrel. How it works is that Grav Generators overlap in their gravity field, so having 128 generators (on the ship I built) means that there is 128x normal gravity in that localized zone. My cannon was a CV vessel to allow repositioning, and fired players at an average of 600m/s.

cool build!
the gravity cannon is a cool idea and i would love to know how it works! i find it fun to mess with gravity even on a singleplayer server.

I'd just remove all the guns.... They botched the combat so bad with the limited gun type you can have at once. Combat builds are all the same, max number per gun type leaving most all player ships the same. I have not played since the last major overhaul but ship builds are the same besides the lag shot builds which i dont know if they fixed or not?

Yeah, it reminds me of a mix between a Hiigaran carrier and Shipyard

Wow... Just wow man... Great Job!

@Major Jane Draxis honestly I wasn't inspired by the harvester HV module, but now that you point it out, you are absolutely right, it does bear a striking resemblance to it lol. and thank you for the idea! i will definitely hold on to it as it does look to have some potential!

Reminds me of the Hiigaran homeworld ship.

ps i give you full rights to this as a cv just have one other idea for it escape pods in the fasion of a sv with cargo space and able to hold 4 passengers other then the pilot

https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/battlestarprometheus/images/3/3c/Gunstar_Tomahawk.PNG/revision/latest?cb=20110117060348 just an idea if you have the time ive personally tried to build it before and my semetry gets thrown all to hell

lokks really cool and im guessing you got a partial idea from the harvester modual from the hv tech tree cuz i could see a resemblence on a section of the ship lol in pics 1 ,3 ,and 4

@Patchouli, no unfortunately the fuel tank cannot be detached, in the future i may post a version of this ship without the tank, and along with an SV designed to look like a tank. but my concern with that is where else to place actual fuel tanks.

Thank you all for your kind words.

@Mr.Freeman, block count is 8629.

@Goddess-Belldandy @Patchouli no a gravity cannon is not something that is new to 7.0, however since the introduction of sensor blocks in 6.0 it has become much easier to build them, @kor kilden has the right idea, several gravity generators are placed in a group and attached to a switch, in this instance there is a arming switch and a motion sensor used to trigger the gun, elevator blocks are used to prevent damage to the player once the gun is switched on, after the player leaves the barrel, the gun is switched off automatically by the motion sensor.

In this case there are 11 gravity generators used to launch players, so yes, anyone within their field of affect is definitely going for a ride at about 107 M/s squared. be it into a wall or not.

that is really big

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ah yes enemy players will be smacked against the ships hull and die? can i detach the fuel tank??

how does that cannon work???

@Goddness-Belldandy Not having subscribed and thus not tested, I suspect by "gravity cannon" he means "I put a ton of gravity generators facing forwards on the ship and put them in a group, so that when you activate them anyone freely walking around in space combat without their jetpack on gets turned into a smear on the wall of their ship!"

looks like a fkn chip

Huh, no idea why....but I get a very subtle Shadowbroker vessel vibe from this one. I like it.

looks nice but is a Gravity Cannon is it some thing new to 7.0?

Beautiful creation :)... How many blocks btw ?

Awesome.