The NightTrain Reforged

The S-35 Night-Train ( Reforged 1.7 )

Seeing that 3x7 Thrusters were going to get a boost in 1.7, I set out to make a non-quantum attack craft that leveraged these thrusters for increased efficiency to make a superior Attack SV.

I am very happy to say, after many days and hours, The Night-Train came to be, and exceeded all of my expectations. Everything came together making this craft. Built from the ground up, knowing the craft would need an extremely unconventional thruster layout to use a Single Improved 3x7 thruster for multiple thrust directions, I laid out the thrusters to the exact position they are in the final craft, it was a very delicate build to get the maximum yaw/pitch/roll out of a single-thruster arrangement.

The Night-Train's uses ( 1 ) 3x7 Thruster for forward, back, Left, & right thrust, with 2 For UPthrust, and a smaller medium set for down thrust & pitch control. Using only these extremely large and efficient thrusters give the craft it's CPU & Thrust-to-weight advantage to beat out all of my previous designs and create a truly stellar aircraft. One bonus of the crafts unusual symmetrical 1-thruster design, was that the optimal orientation of the thrusters very conveniently created an armored space between them, I saw the potential & lept on it, a 4000 hitpoint thruster is in fact, one of the best pieces of armor available for an SV, completely free and weightless. Leveraging it's thrusters to form an armor core, I was able to completely wrap the entire component section of the craft with just 50ish Combat steel blocks, So not only is the craft incredibly efficient in thrust, it is also incredibly efficient and lightweight in its armor, despite having a 360 degree combat steel envelope. The weakest point on this ship is in fact the armored cockpit, which is 1800 hitpoints & armor-wrapped. Every weapon can be blown off the Night-train without destroying its components or cockpit, take it into creative yourself and blow the crap out of it, as I did, it is a shockingly resilient little ship.

The end result of these extreme efficiencies in both Thrust and armor, is a craft with enormous amounts of CPU to allocate for combat performance, both in it's extreme handling & speeds, as well it's ability to carry an unusually heavy armament at those speeds. The Night-Train is more than ELEVEN G's, and can operate at 5+ G's hovering face down, face up, on either side, and even upside down, and it'll do it with more than a dozen heavy weapons or turrets. The ship can operate at any Gravity currently in-game.

The Night-Train can mount 16 Turrets and 12 Manual weapons, held tight to center mass, it is a craft with unprecendented control ( 75+ Yaw/pitch/roll ) for the amount of weaponry strapped onto it. With a standard loadout of 12 Manual plasma cannons, 2 Positronic turrets, and 2 minigun turrets, the ship is more than a match for any POI, and will crush enemy CV's up to and including Kamirat battlecarriers with relative ease ( *Combat experience required ). The ship comes standard with a Heavy shield, + 3 Capacitors and 1 Recharger, for a very fast-charging 2750 Hitpoint Energy shield, more than enough for it's purpose, & the ship has marked expansion ports for more shield Extensions, if you'd like to sub out some of it's thrusters or weapons for a heavier shield.

The Night-Train is something completely new, It's 200% faster than just about anything else in the Core-9 ( non quantum ) category. Not only is it heavily armed and armored, it is lightning fast, with the Extreme-G manuevers to outrun missiles and dodge all non-hitscan fire. You Yaw, Pitch and roll at 75+, the roll and pitch are in fact manually Reduced, for uniformity and ease of use. You can roll, OR strafe around your target while keeping your crosshairs on, and effortlessly pummel the enemy with either manual fire weapons, or you can exchange them for a Dozen+ plasma turrets and bombard them to death without ever needing to aim. The ship is ridiculously fast and maneuverable, you'll be shocked by its ability to fly circles around the enemy.

The Night train is also an Interchangeable platform, being built to house 3 x 7 thrusters, Advanced, Improved, or Large thrusters can be traded up or down if more weapon or shield loadout is preferred, it is a craft that begs to go quantum, with the thrust to power a loadout of 12 Manuals and a dozen turrets, it moves seemlessly from a Core9 to a Light-quantum Heavy-gunship. As a light quantum the ship will drub even heavy CV's to death with turrets-only, it's ridiculous and ridiculously fun.

Everything came together in this ship, Ultra efficient thrust, Ultra efficient armoring, Ultra-tight weapon positions, and the most effective weapons package, to create a ship which you wont believe isn't Quantum. This is one of my proudest creations & one I feel sets a new Standard for combat SVs.

Enjoy! -Art

Thank you to Stan2112 for giving me a lot of feedback and ideas to make this ship look as sharp as it does! Check out his workshop here: https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198424944896/myworkshopfiles/

Thank you also to the Spanj builders community and my good friends in JVI on HWS.

The Night-Train is 100% Open-thruster compliant, Mass weight and volume compliant, CPU compliant, The craft conforms to all Limits & requirements for Reforged Galaxy.

The Night-Train has a recommended ammo Loadout of 8000 Rounds of 15mm Ammo, 750 Type-A Plasma rounds, and 500 Small Heat sinks, with Volume to spare.