Cepheus S-40 Prospero - Exploration Ship

Vanilla | Survival | No Subgrids | No Scripts | No DLC

[b]A stylish hydrogen powered starship with a small hangar for rovers and stuff.[/b][/code]
                                                                                 

The S-40 is just a bit of everything. For it's size it flies quite well thanks to the powerful hydrogen thrusters. The 60ML tanks are plenty enough for a very long time and will also provide the hydrogen engines with fuel. Should you need to refill it with Ice, you can use it's single drill (although it's not the most comfortable to mine ice with it). It comes with all the necessities of an exploration ship, only lacking the large refinery. You won't need it really, this ship runs 100% on hydrogen (which is now way more viable since the last update).

With an upward acceleration of around 2.5 g you can fill it up with ore and won't have to worry about it crashing down on a planet. The for the size of this ship suprisingly roomy hangar should be able to hold pretty much every speeder bike, rover and perhaps even some small ships. Make sure they're properly secured though!

It's not a combat ship, but does have two rocket launchers for contingencies. I tried to make most crucial components reachable, only the gyroscopes and the grav gen are hidden away somewhere. The interior is split into two separately airtight spaces, the hangar and the bridge. Neither has a proper airlock though (doesn't make sense in a hangar).

The ship doesn't need any platinum or uranium at all and can thus be easily built on all planets. It also doesn't need any mods, DLCs, scripts, subgrids and doesn't even have any grinded down blocks. The color pattern is super basic and should be very easy to change should you wish to do so.


[h1]Stats[/h1]
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[*] Weight: 514 t
[*] Length: 52.5 m
[*] Width: 42.5 m
[*] Blocks: 633
[*] PCU: 7654
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[h1]Engines:[/h1]
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[*] 4 batteries
[*] 4 hydrogen engines
[*] 4 large hydro tanks
[*] 2 small hydro tanks (reserve)

[*] 38 small hydro thrusters
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[h1]Armament:[/h1]
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[*] 2 rocket launchers
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[h1]Utility:[/h1]
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[*] survival kit
[*] assembler with one module slot
[*] 2 basic refineries
[*] 9 small cargo containers
[*] 4 O2/H2 generators
[*] ore detector
[*] 2 cryo pods
[*] drill (only good for ice) + welder and grinder (push stuff into them)
[*] jump drive
[*] connector in hangar + outside connector
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