Ramlethal - Frigate

Relatively fast and heavily armed warship with a certain Gear installed as her central computer. Survival ready for fully self reliant operation. Able to fight a large variety of different opponents.

Designed to be built on official keen servers. Its role is to be my go to PVE/PVP ship while having lots of PCU left available for other stuff. Mainly I wanted to be able to build one of these (12 719 pcu)+ my esdeath destroyer (5 897 pcu) and have a back up industrial ship (~1 500 pcu). I also designed the landing pad and connectors so Ramlethal can carry any one of my fighters (even the large grid ones) and land on flat ground while haveing the fighters rotated upwards for easy take off and landing. By default all connectors are large connectors. It does all of this while being my most combat effective ship I've built.

Now this has been an on going project since this summer, and its almost december. Its been a long road. I started her design process with nothing but a empty frame and tested many turret layouts to find the most effective one that could be built with roughly 10 000 pcu. I'm really proud of the end result, all artillery turrets are spread out yet super firing in a pretty large cone at the front of the ship. All gatlings and assault turrets can be focused on single target below the ship, I found that to be the best method to deal with drones and player made missiles. Focus all small fire at a single point while accelerating upwards. Good gatling coveredge in 360 degrees with no blind spots against hydromen. I think i would struggle to find a more optimal layout that looks this good if I were to try again.

Survivability: Reactor is far enough away from the internal command center to not cause any radiotion damage to the player and the reactor is fully encased in heavy armour. Hydrogen tanks are distributer equally around the ship to avoid losing fuel supply from to damaged conveyor lines. Ammunition Magazines are numbered from 1 to 4 based on safety. Almost all components are accessible with a welding tool for easy repair and manufacturing the prototech components are placed also in locations that are easy to get access to in survival (with the exception of one gyro in the server room, It looked too cool so I left it there).

AI features like, automatic space climb mode. All AI combat blocks, Alert systems and some automation to help with day to day operation.

Stats:

PCU, 12 900 Mass, 1 750 000 Kg Weapons, 6 Railguns, 11 Artillery Turrets, 3 Assault turrets, 4 gatling turrets, 2 Interior turret Flight time, 25 - 180 minutes

- 5 large hydrogen tanks and 13 H2/02 Generators. - All Industry and survival blocks. 1 refinery,1 assembler, 2 medical rooms, 1 food processor, 7 farms, irrigation system, - 1, algea farm, 1 oxygen farm, 2 solar panels. - 31 small cargo containers. - 5 strategically located ammo magazines to prevent chain detonaiton. - 3 Jump drives with about 4000 km jump range without cargo. - Ore detector and Drill. - Contract block and ATM.