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Grimson - Carrier CV

a10 version: https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1800583349

weird hover hightech luxery asymmetric carrier cv

(started as a single players starter mini carrier, but i guess it's now more of a real carrier or even multiplayer ship if you can live with the sligthly low amount of grow space, since the size class is only 3 and for that it has a ton of parking)

notes:
- all combat steel
- blueprint comes without weapons
- its quite slow/heavy feeling ship, if you do not want that you might want to add more rcs
- yes there are deliberately floating ship parts
- 4 weaponpoints
- 7 designated turret spots, but you can place more on the bottom and some sides or simply add more floaty turret spots
- 9 growspots, option to add additional 2x9 (possible total of 27)
- lots of space to add additional stuff either in 2nd grow room or engine room has space or hangar
- hangar has the option to add force fields (suggest the big 9x3 field from side, since if you should not add stuff on the ceiling or floor and you wanne park high hv's, the bumps make your life hell, moved all motions and lights to side for that reason)
- has no repair station and no repair block (since i started out designing at as a starter, so it stayed a lv10 vessel with no Erestrum and Zascosium)
- the repair block can be put down on the R or up to the elevator to the front in the middle (there are half blocks on the bottom side of the ship there to cover that line)
- parking: depends on your vessels size really. i could even get very high hv's at least on the roof (see pictures), all that does not fit in the hangar should be able to get up the back ramp.
- the landing gear is sideways, not sure if this has any effect yet or in the future, but if yes i thought i should mention that
- most of the roof is half block so you can not dirrectly build on it, but there are blocks under all of them, it's mostly for the design and floating turrets XD
- lots of levers or option to switch to motionsensores, option to control all ramps with levers in and outside of the ship
- minor issues with motionsensores/levers i could not find better solutions:
1. if you leave a ramp down with levers and turn on the motion sensores it will stay down and the motionsensor will not retrigger. you need to switch back to levers to fix it.(in my other set up the ramp would work backwards, so staying down was the lesser evil there)
2. the top ramp sensor (coming from top) has a 3 secound delay so it stays longer down and does not just disappear below you, but it means you have to wait that time for it to trigger too.(all vessels can just hop/fly down, so just for roleplaying reason really)
3. with motion sensores on there is no way to trigger the top ramp from below, the sensor only picks up stuff on the roof. (i could not find another way, since it would otherwise screw the bottom entrance)


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lots of Levers:

gravity:
next to engine room marked with g: ggravity on/off

living:
lever middle between bath and living room: opens/closes the ramps on the windows

cockpit:
1. atmosspheric thrusters: turn all down thrust on (from 4 to 12 thrusters). you need that to lift off in gravity.
2. motionsensores on/off: turn all the levers for all the ramps on/off

side door:*
outside one lever on the leg, inside one next to armor lockers: up/down ramp control of the side ramp

front hangar:*
inside next to door to cockpit, outside below the cockpit: up/down front ramp

back hangar:*
inside on the pipes, outside below the backside, topside next to the elevator exit:
U = upper ramp control: up/down of the uper ramp to th roof
L = lower ramp control: up/down of the lower ramp

*with all ramp levers you can lower them outside and then close form the inside. if motionsensores are turned on, then all levers are turned off and the other way around.

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history of the ship (lore):

After the invention of the gravitational propulsion engine the idea of a low orbital defense carrier soon came to light. First design consepts of the ship class, now know as Grimson hover carrier, were raised by H. P. Figgleton. The idea got picked up by F. Stahlrücken an Engineer later hired by [SD]Industries to take part in the Reaseach Division tasked with Defense of its ressouce deposits.

The first prototype of the vessel had a to narrow hangar bay. Extensive testes showed nearly no use for pratical purposes. Angry and frustrated with the result F. Stahlrücken cut the whole carrier in half and widened it way to much. This resulted in the name of the ship after the word grim. It gave the Carrier the bulky look, making it seem a bit to wide for its class.

In the Field the Grimson hover carrier was first used as a higly advanced and automated drone carrier. It's designed to offer accommodation for a 1 person military engineer , providing all the luxery, while doing repair+maintence work and defending points of interest. Due to its to large hangar bay and the space it provided the class evolved more and more into a multipurpose ship. Soon the carriers were tasked to take part in active assault opterations, convoy work, transport jobs and even providing a base for manned fighter pilots, rasing it's crew to more then one. At the end the mistake of an engineer led to the rise of the Grimson ship class.