The Neo Echota Drive Yards present in our ongoing series of utility craft, the Fatty Finch Zip Freighter! The void's best semi-truck!
Be warned! Your friends will ask you to help them move.
The Yard Painters were bored one day and got together with the Engineers, who were already baked because they had nothing else to do. So they made this.
What can I say?
Do you dislike dealing with docked cargo containers? Too messy for day-to-day operations? Not a problem!
This ship is designed to let you move large amounts of cargo and even your ships at relatively minimal cost for it's size and capacity, featuring maximum utility and a little bit of RP interior that would be befitting of a little freighter capable of taking on a few passengers or small crew of 3 for extended journeys, while of course being capable of carrying many more for short or specific trips where a few people might like a ride.
A small crystal lounge dining area has been provided for some RP fun at the bow, a tiny crew/passenger cabin with 3 bunks is below-decks, with a similarly small trucker cabin directly up the ramp behind the core.
Can't sleep without the hum of the jump-drives!
Featuring 4 rail-linked and delineated 160k unit capacity cargo stacks with corresponding storage units behind the core allowing passenger belongings to be kept separate, or sorting of incoming/outgoing cargo by type, such as 'Ore and Capsules', 'Modules', etc., the Fatty Finch can carry over half a million units of cargo at 145 m/sec., using dual jump-drives.
The cargo space isn't enough? No Problem! Expand the hull, or dock cargo containers along the tail.
It's boxy shape and sleek but cheap hull means that mounting a towing rig for even truly large ships of nearly any shape is possible, or any number of smaller craft. It's got the thrust to do the job.
If you are to the point where you need to move enough junk to warrant using this, it's easily modifiable and replaceable, should anything happen to it, or it's role changed.
The core, while deep within the ship, nevertheless has a good clear view forward, while the seating for 4 passengers there allows you to keep an eye out for anyone who happens to go overboard during a trip.
As you can see, some documentation exists on-board which will allow you to dust off the blueprint, spawn the ship and have it's highlights available to refresh your memory. Two small personal lifts to the left and right of the passenger seating seen here run the height of the ship.
Gravity is available, with small ramps and walkways available to get around the interior under it's influence.
I hope you have fun with it! As with the Hungry Ghost miners that can be mounted on it's hull, it's a quite zippy ship to pilot unloaded. You really only have to feather the thrust.
Good news! Does it absolutely positively have to be there overnight? Need to beat your competition to market? No warp gate where you need to go? The Fatty Finch is now approved for gravitational assisted black hole slingshot travel! When so piloted and with her dual jump-drives the FF will easily reach trans-galactic cruising speeds well in excess of 600-700 m/s with full half-million unit cargo load!
While it is recommended that you keep your speed under 600 m/s to make the ship appropriately steerable should major course corrections become necessary, with just a minor alteration of the thrust toward vertical and horizontal vectors, the Fatty Finch handles like a dream even at higher speeds with it's belly full.
The specs are:
Length 82m, Height 31m, Width 29m with 2 to 5 thrust/mass ratio and max speed of 300 m/s unloaded. Last clocked at 146.2 m/s fully loaded.
Power 5,012,477 capacity, charging at 818,000 e/sec.
Shields 272,802 charging at 20,075 s/sec
Radar jamming
Dual jumpdrives which charge at reasonable rates even under full load.
Be warned! Your friends will ask you to help them move.
The Yard Painters were bored one day and got together with the Engineers, who were already baked because they had nothing else to do. So they made this.
What can I say?
Do you dislike dealing with docked cargo containers? Too messy for day-to-day operations? Not a problem!
This ship is designed to let you move large amounts of cargo and even your ships at relatively minimal cost for it's size and capacity, featuring maximum utility and a little bit of RP interior that would be befitting of a little freighter capable of taking on a few passengers or small crew of 3 for extended journeys, while of course being capable of carrying many more for short or specific trips where a few people might like a ride.
A small crystal lounge dining area has been provided for some RP fun at the bow, a tiny crew/passenger cabin with 3 bunks is below-decks, with a similarly small trucker cabin directly up the ramp behind the core.
Featuring 4 rail-linked and delineated 160k unit capacity cargo stacks with corresponding storage units behind the core allowing passenger belongings to be kept separate, or sorting of incoming/outgoing cargo by type, such as 'Ore and Capsules', 'Modules', etc., the Fatty Finch can carry over half a million units of cargo at 145 m/sec., using dual jump-drives.
The cargo space isn't enough? No Problem! Expand the hull, or dock cargo containers along the tail.
It's boxy shape and sleek but cheap hull means that mounting a towing rig for even truly large ships of nearly any shape is possible, or any number of smaller craft. It's got the thrust to do the job.
If you are to the point where you need to move enough junk to warrant using this, it's easily modifiable and replaceable, should anything happen to it, or it's role changed.
The core, while deep within the ship, nevertheless has a good clear view forward, while the seating for 4 passengers there allows you to keep an eye out for anyone who happens to go overboard during a trip.
As you can see, some documentation exists on-board which will allow you to dust off the blueprint, spawn the ship and have it's highlights available to refresh your memory. Two small personal lifts to the left and right of the passenger seating seen here run the height of the ship.
Gravity is available, with small ramps and walkways available to get around the interior under it's influence.
I hope you have fun with it! As with the Hungry Ghost miners that can be mounted on it's hull, it's a quite zippy ship to pilot unloaded. You really only have to feather the thrust.
Good news! Does it absolutely positively have to be there overnight? Need to beat your competition to market? No warp gate where you need to go? The Fatty Finch is now approved for gravitational assisted black hole slingshot travel! When so piloted and with her dual jump-drives the FF will easily reach trans-galactic cruising speeds well in excess of 600-700 m/s with full half-million unit cargo load!
While it is recommended that you keep your speed under 600 m/s to make the ship appropriately steerable should major course corrections become necessary, with just a minor alteration of the thrust toward vertical and horizontal vectors, the Fatty Finch handles like a dream even at higher speeds with it's belly full.
The specs are:
Length 82m, Height 31m, Width 29m with 2 to 5 thrust/mass ratio and max speed of 300 m/s unloaded. Last clocked at 146.2 m/s fully loaded.
Power 5,012,477 capacity, charging at 818,000 e/sec.
Shields 272,802 charging at 20,075 s/sec
Radar jamming
Dual jumpdrives which charge at reasonable rates even under full load.
