Cepheus S-400 Carack - Exploration Ship

Vanilla | Survival | Subgrids | No Scripts | DLC

[b]A messy, industrial exploration ship with everything you could need to start a new base on a far away planet.[/b][/code]
                                                                                 

The S-400 is intended to serve as an exploration ship or a preliminary base. With a large cargo container, a refinery and an assembler it has pretty much everything you need. While it's refining stuff, you can fill it up with ores using the ship mounted drills or a small mining ship that you can attach to one of the two connectors on the ships belly. It also has some space for a small speeder bike that is already integrated. 

In order to carry all that ore and stuff around, it utilizes all kinds of thrusters. The hydrogen thrusters are the main maneuvering thrusters, but to conserve fuel on planets it has two large atmo thrusters for atmospheres. In order to get to space without wasting much hydrogen, it also has two large ion thrusters in the back. When it's unloaded, you can even reach space without needing the hydro thrustesr at all. Of course it also has a jump drive.

You really wouldn't want to get into a fight with it though, as it only has one gatling turret on the right and two interior turrets on the left, all of which you have to reload manually. The gatling turret ammo lasts for around 7 minutes of fire, so probably much longer than the ship itself.

The ship has only two relatively simple subgrids, needs no scripts, but a bunch of DLCs.
It can fly on all planets, needs 0% hydrogen to get to space from earth and can safely lift around 800 t.


[h1]Stats[/h1]
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[*] Weight: 660 t
[*] Length: 67.5 m
[*] Width: 32.5 m
[*] Blocks: 650
[*] PCU: 7543
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[h1]Engines:[/h1]
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[*] 3 batteries
[*] 5 reactors
[*] 1 hydrogen engines
[*] 2 large hydrogen tanks

[*] 19 small hydro thrusters
[*] 6 small + 2 large atmo thrusters
[*] 2 large ion thrusters
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[h1]Armament:[/h1]
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[*] 1 rocket launcher
[*] 1 gatling turret
[*] 2 interior turrets
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[h1]Utility:[/h1]
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[*] survival kit + med bay
[*] assembler + 2 speed modules
[*] refinery + 1 speed + 2 yield modules
[*] large cargo container
[*] 4 O2/H2 generators
[*] ore detector
[*] cryo pod
[*] 3 swivel mounted drills
[*] 3 parachutes
[*] jump drive
[*] 2 connectors for attaching small ships
[*] 1 rotor for attaching speeder bike
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