Heavy corvette The Star Shepherd

[StarShepherd]

Hello, first I wanna say this is a fun game even in Alpha, definity getting it when/if Steam sells it? Will be better then Minecraft imo, the other thing is I hate you guys for making it cause its addictive and I have lots of stuff I should be doing :P. It would make a fun MMO, I need to find a server!

In a War torn galaxy supplies are short and far in between, so this ship was corverted from a large Salvage ship (it actually started out as nothing but a Salvage ship). Do too its weak hull it was already at a disadvantage, it was even further gutted to make room for electronics and support craft. This ship was Made for Support duties in a fleet, but still has enough Strenth to engage Light enemy Close to home and is used to patrol Sectors around Home Base. A deck was added to support Craft from strike craft to support Drones. Multiple Turrets were added for defense, these turrets and craft are compact so their very weak, but cheap and save on space allowing for many to be mounted or docked. A docking bay was added, but only supports a recon ship or a escape pod (could hold a turret, mine or torpedo instead). It has a paper thin hull, but placement of external armor, drones and flight deck make up for the weak armor.

I wanted to keep this ship at/below 300 mass, I consider it a Heavy Correvtte, I could be wrong its around 50 blocks long and under 3000 blocks total. I spent most of my time Building so I can't say 100% how strong this ship is, but so far I attacked 4 pirates with little dam, repaired it with my repair drone but didn't replace any blocks, attacked 3 more Rats then 2 more joined in. They damaged the ship farily well, but no hits on important areas and they only knocked out 1 drone and 3 turrets I would still be able to fight no problem (pics below). The deck and docking bay takes all the damage, the rear and sides take little damage (which is good cause very little armor there) This would be a fun support ship in multiplay I think. I plan to just keep running this ship into Rats till it blows up then I'm taking off 3 fighters and replacing them with turrets, jumping out of the ship to dock the ships after the battle is to much work. Also I need to improve the small turrets, I slimed them down to bare min without shields...they dont last long.

Ship Details
Name:Star Shepherd
Class: Heavy Corrvette
Mass: 300.2
Armor: Light Armor with Deck and some external Plate Armor. Drones and craft add to armor when left docked.
Weapons: 4 main cannons, 8 Light Turrets, 5 Medium turrets, 1 missle turret.
Craft: 4 Drones, 4 light Strike Craft, 5 Support Drones (salvage, repair, Power supply etc) and one Escape pod (Every man for themselves!).

Pics: keep in mind some of these pics are newer then others so they may not have all the turrets, craft etc I have now.

Too give to a idea of where every thing is on the ship, btw instead of flight deck I ment The Bridge.also this is an older pic of the ship.

http://imageshack.us/a/img5/1223/5xxz.jpg


Combat Drones and turrets up close.

http://imageshack.us/a/img837/7348/k38a.jpg

http://imageshack.us/a/img35/2775/80d4.jpg

http://imageshack.us/a/img23/8911/tgp5.jpg



Sides

http://imageshack.us/a/img41/7564/2rod.jpg

http://imageshack.us/a/img43/5702/7taf.jpg

http://imageshack.us/a/img543/5498/2hpw.jpg

Rear

http://imageshack.us/a/img543/5342/4s7z.jpg



Top

http://imageshack.us/a/img153/7848/l233.jpg

Front

http://imageshack.us/a/img547/4779/ot4z.jpg



This is the Damage after the battles I talked about above. As you can see the front and top are swiss cheese but little hull damage or to other vital areas.

http://imageshack.us/a/img824/2269/hqjt.jpg

http://imageshack.us/a/img854/9648/n716.jpg

http://imageshack.us/a/img812/6092/trg7.jpg

http://imageshack.us/a/img580/869/xf8l.jpg

http://imageshack.us/a/img827/9544/vr7d.jpg

http://imageshack.us/a/img405/3646/rbrz.jpg

 

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It would be good as a command ship for a small fighter squadron. Maybe with a crew to pilot turrets and drones you could bring down fairly large ships.