Ah! THATS WHATS REMINDED ME, it all make sense now.

I've built it on a few servers but the design also draws really heavily from the designs listed in the description so that could be it.

i feel like ive seen this before

Actually not too long I build my ships in a line like that so I can easily compare what I do and dont like across versions.

How long did it take to make that final screenshot?

I have a couple ideas kicking around for scripted and scriptless drones and missiles I might try.

took this for a test drive the other day and loved how it handled in creative. would be ideal for me if it only had a simple automatic drone printer in the hanger.

I'm playing on a server with a PCU limit. I selected your project, inserted this drawing into the projector, the nanites built it for me. Disconnected this ship from the projector and looked in the info the number of PCU. It came up over 60,000. But loading this ship in creative mode got 19556!!! I don't know how it works and why there is such a difference. Maybe because of the mod server, revised PCU.

I can guarantee you it's not 60k PCU lol. It's super difficult to get to that count in a ship of this size even if you're using subgrids. Try pasting it in creative via F10 and you should see the PCU and block count - you might be looking at the combined PCU of all grids you have out

built this ship unarmed and the meter reads almost 60000 PCU!!!! where did 17,656 come from?

Wait only 15 ...small...cans... What cheap rust bucket! Gonna need all new thrusters and maybe even a few capacitors! Still I'll take her! Make her as good as new!

Love this ship :D good off the printer

Glad it was helpful! My thought process for building ships usually starts with sketching out profiles on paper. Once I have one I'm happy with i block out very general profiles and then start refining there - large details -> small. I think the best metric to pay attention to is surface details/complexity. The visually complex parts are where your eye is naturally drawn so you wanna make sure the whole ship has about the same level of detail with maybe a few accent points.

I just want to say I appreciate that you've shown the process this ship took while you built it. I've been trying to build a new ship for a survival server with some of my friends and I'm struggling to not make the ship ugly as sin haha. being able to see someone else's process is helpful to me. So again, thank you.

Thanks!

This build is awesome. Well thought out and efficient. Great work!