Foreword:
Just because the Canning has turrets, doesnt mean its a good idea to fight with them. Currently the Overdrive turrets are power-expensive, these may be changed to Piercing effect in the future to deal with Scav that more easily. This ship has no weapons except the turrets, meaning AI will ram with it, and almost any server's non-default pirates will be able to kill this ship.
So, New ship! Actually, its not new, its been sitting around for a while, twiddling its thumbs till I upload a bunch of these KDI ships...
Anyway, this is the KDI "Canning" Medium Hauler, "Canning" being the name of one of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary ships (past/present) for those interested.
Stats:
The Canning has small aerofoils/Canards on it to allow for more control in Atmospheric flight. Despite its very boxy look. The ship is assisted in Re-entry and Exit by an in-built Anti-grav system (AKA Passive stop effect). Its also got large launch thrusters on its underside, to fascilitate a rapid clib above the ground before main engines kick in to propel it forwards and out of the planet's gravity.
While it can land on planets, the ship is also equipped with a USD to dock to stations to collect or deposit cargo without breaking internal atmosphere. The other side is a rotating door that allows easy access to the ship when it is on a planet's surface, or docked to a flat platform.
The ship, like most KDI vessels, are equipped with basic amenities. The Canning being a direct upgrade of the Havoc IIC LH in that the amenities offered include a shower, more personal storage space, and a slightly better food rations fridge.
1/2 the ship is basically empty space for the cargo hold. It has Light Loading/unloading cranes for KDI's Patented Hover Carriers for cargo to allow a single crew member to empty the cargo hold without damaging any part of their anatomy in lifting the crates around. The ship has 33k total storage capacity, 33x that of the basic TG thing that transports goods when you buy/sell via trade nodes,
At the back, you can see the Canning is powered by a similar reactor to the Chaosweaver Bomber. This energy is channelled into a 500+ block jump drive, that, when carrying no cargo, allows the canning to jump once every 22 seconds, effectively able to avoid danger with its decent speed and engines and fast jump drive mean its a hard ship to catch for most pirates unable to afford an Inhibitor.
Disclaimer:
File is is Sment format, use the main menu -> Tools, Catalogue Manager -> import to get the file to a usable blueprint format.
Just because the Canning has turrets, doesnt mean its a good idea to fight with them. Currently the Overdrive turrets are power-expensive, these may be changed to Piercing effect in the future to deal with Scav that more easily. This ship has no weapons except the turrets, meaning AI will ram with it, and almost any server's non-default pirates will be able to kill this ship.
So, New ship! Actually, its not new, its been sitting around for a while, twiddling its thumbs till I upload a bunch of these KDI ships...
Anyway, this is the KDI "Canning" Medium Hauler, "Canning" being the name of one of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary ships (past/present) for those interested.
Stats:
The Canning has small aerofoils/Canards on it to allow for more control in Atmospheric flight. Despite its very boxy look. The ship is assisted in Re-entry and Exit by an in-built Anti-grav system (AKA Passive stop effect). Its also got large launch thrusters on its underside, to fascilitate a rapid clib above the ground before main engines kick in to propel it forwards and out of the planet's gravity.
While it can land on planets, the ship is also equipped with a USD to dock to stations to collect or deposit cargo without breaking internal atmosphere. The other side is a rotating door that allows easy access to the ship when it is on a planet's surface, or docked to a flat platform.
The ship, like most KDI vessels, are equipped with basic amenities. The Canning being a direct upgrade of the Havoc IIC LH in that the amenities offered include a shower, more personal storage space, and a slightly better food rations fridge.
1/2 the ship is basically empty space for the cargo hold. It has Light Loading/unloading cranes for KDI's Patented Hover Carriers for cargo to allow a single crew member to empty the cargo hold without damaging any part of their anatomy in lifting the crates around. The ship has 33k total storage capacity, 33x that of the basic TG thing that transports goods when you buy/sell via trade nodes,
At the back, you can see the Canning is powered by a similar reactor to the Chaosweaver Bomber. This energy is channelled into a 500+ block jump drive, that, when carrying no cargo, allows the canning to jump once every 22 seconds, effectively able to avoid danger with its decent speed and engines and fast jump drive mean its a hard ship to catch for most pirates unable to afford an Inhibitor.Disclaimer:
File is is Sment format, use the main menu -> Tools, Catalogue Manager -> import to get the file to a usable blueprint format.
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Any ship, even if they are small, if they have to go other places and potentially longer journeys I always give my small ship crews toilet and some place to sleep and store personal items. Never know when you have to stay overnight/rest at another faction's station, so a bed to yourself saves on hotel fees.
As for the example ship, the Canning and the GS-91 are actually 2 different classes of vessel, Canning being a Hauler, carrying its cargo in internal bay while the GS-91 is a Cargo-Container type freighter for different lore and meta. Ive yet to build my own cargo container ships because they are hard to use and serve little purpose to AI who are even less likely to be able to use them effectively :P