The Rangatira Carrier MSV-4

"You deserve to battle in style."

NO MODS WERE USED IN THIS SHIP, WORKS IN DEV & STABLE

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INFO:

[Rangatira: (Ran-Gah-Tear-Rah)]

Unofficial name: The Empress

The Rangatira Carrier is designed as a state of the art multi-purpose battle carrier. It is the flagship of the Rangatiratanga Fleet. It is one of the first ships built to feature an automatic (controlled via WASD) multi-directional gravity drive giving it impressive acceleration in all directions despite it size. The ship can support an active crew of 34 however it has the ability to keep far more crew in cryo sleep. As a battle carrier the ship not only brings its small ships to the fight, but also brings the fight to its adversaries. This ship due it its advanced capabilities and ability to hold a large squadron of fighter crafts, is more than capable of holding its own in battle. However, if coupled with Kaikohuru Cruisers an Korako Corvettes it is a nearly unstoppable force. As the flag ship of the fleet the Rangatira has an interior to match its position of high status. All Rangatiratanga ships feature luxurious interiors (as they are often the ships chosen by wealthy private contractors and the most advanced and wealthy galactic powers) however the Rangatira Carrier truly sets a new bar in excellence for its crew. Serving on the Rangatira is a privilege bestowed only to the finest the fleet has to offer, and its captains abilities are always unmatched.

This ship is NOT rated for planetary use. Just as a battle ship only operates in the ocean, this only operates in space. Including planetary capabilities would require that I sacrifice much of its design. A jack of all trades is master of none.

It's name is derived from Te Reo Māori (the language of the native people of New Zealand). In Te Reo, Rangatira means Chief. The MSV stands for Mega-Ship-Vacuum only. The 4 represents the four months that it took to design, plan and build.

Ship Mass: 67 million kg Length: 341m Block Count: 36,801 Triangles: 8.5 million Thrusters: 226

See how the ship was made:

http://imgur.com/gallery/TlU4X

[h1]How tos:[/h1]

How to paste the ship

1) Open blueprints with f10

2) Select "The Rangatira MSV-4 Battle Carrier" and click "ok". If you get a message "ship exceeds regulations" the issue is your world settings. Disable block limits.

3) Paste ship while completely stationary using ctrl-v Note do not move your mouse as this will cause the ship to spawn moving. If you get a message about it being made in Dev Branch, Ignore it. It works fine.

4) Give the ship at least 4 seconds after pasting to lock its rotors and run its scripts before moving.

How to use the gravity drive:

1) Just use WASD like normal and it should work by default on its own. It may take it a second to kick into gear though.

How to fire torpedoes:

1) Find the tab on the tool bar in the main flight seat that includes the controls for torpedos. It should be tab 3. Cameras for viewing near the torpedo bays are available as well.

2) Prep the torpedo Bays by pressing 8. This opens the bays and builds four torpedos. The ability to fire them will be disabled until they are complete and ready to fire. This may take a couple seconds.

3) Press buttons 1,2,3,4 to fire the torpedos in that respective order. They will be automatically rebuilt to be fired again. You may need to wait a few seconds for the torpedo’s timers to be re-activated before you can fire it.

4) When you are done firing press 9 to end the torpedo sequence. The torpedo doors will then close.

How to launch Guided missiles.

1) Go to tab 4 on the main flight seat.

2) To build the missiles you must first open the missile bay doors. Press 1 to do this

3) Press 2 to build eight missiles. (note there are issues with conveying resources to smallship welders in survival, but no issues in creative). You may close the doors after this if you chose, but they must be opened to fire the missiles.

4) To fire Press 4 repeatedly (once for each missile, 9 times in total if you want to launch all of them in quick succession)

5) Point the ship at your target. You can look through Forward Camera 1 (button 3) to see where the missiles are being guided. Once launched you may rotate the ship to redirect the missiles.

How to drop decoys:

1) Go to tab 2

2)Press 4 to prepare the decoys. They will eject from the rear sides of the ship. Note: Doing this is a partially irreversible process to be used only in emergencies as it detaches part of the ship’s armor.

3) to stop deploying decoys press 5. This will stop them from being built but will not replace the detached armor.

Features:

• An automatic (WASD) multi directional gravity drive.

• 12 Refineries

• 28 Arc Furnaces

• 32 Assemblers

• 14 Large Reactors

• 50 Jump Drives (max jump distance of 1863km)

• Conveyors for 16 fighters in its hangar, Space for more if conveyors are ignored.

• 18 oxygen generators

• Welders on all reactors, Large Thruster, and some Jump Drives

• Quadruple Torpedo Launcher

• Octuple Guided Missile Launchers

• 30 Oxygen Tanks

• 44 Cryo Pods

• 55 Gatling Turrets

• 29 Missile Turrets

• 28 Forward Rocket Launchers, 36 Broadside Launchers

• A holographic Orrery

• All windows can be shut with hangar doors

• A 10 G gravity Shield. Has minimal impact on the interior of the ship.

• A hidden Decoy System