Desolace Station/Ship V2.0

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Desolace is a hybrid station/ship. This is the continued development on the first big ship I constructed. This ship is under constant development and has received a steady stream of upgrades as Space Engineers has been updated and patched. The styling was originally inspired by Keen’s red ship.

I recently refitted Desolace for the exploration feature Keen is working on. I stripped out the large drill that once ran down the spine of the ship. I decided that instead of having a cumbersome large ship drill taking up a considerable portion of my ships space I could replace it with a manufacturing bay. This enables Desolace to be more adaptable. Part of Keen’s exploration ship request asked that submissions not include gravity drives, so I removed Desolace’s gravity drive. Thankfully Desolace’s ample thruster capacity combined with the weight savings it received from removing the gravity drive and the heavy drilling rig still allows Desolace to be quick and nimble for a ship its size.

The hybrid station/ship design enables Desolace to detach the nose section of the ship which becomes a small manufacturing station with a fold out landing pad. The remaining 2/3rds of the ship becomes a medium sized cruiser, which can then patrol, provide protection or go on supply runs. Desolace is designed to operate in two different orientations, the normal ship orientation when flying forward and the deployed station orientation where the ship is standing on its nose. Traversing between these two different orientations is simple, although initially some of these gravity transitions may be a bit disorienting.

Desolace has connectors and docking clamps to supply and hold 14 medium sized small craft. All of the docking clamps will automatically disengage when a pilot approaches and reengage 8-10 seconds after the pilot leaves or enters a ship. All of the small ships included have a startup/shut down timer block set to the #9 hotkey that makes docking and undocking a breeze.

Work in Progress ... Some pictures are old.