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Dragonfly Exploration Ship (Vanilla, Survival Ready, DLC)

The Dragonfly is a mostly lightly armoured ship Built with vanilla and dlc blocks, and is heavily focused around the first dlc pack (this whole thing was pretty much built off of the cockpit), This ship is also an experiment to see what could be done with the dlc blocks.

It does not have the best production or combat capability as well as becoming somewhat sluggish in atmosphere and lacks a jump drive, but as a result is also smaller and most likely a lot cheaper then you're average capital ship or warship, ammunition will be easier to produce and there is no hydrogen thrusters so hydrogen fuel is not needed. There is only one entrance at the back but you can also hop straight into the cockpit at the front if you are in a hurry. There is only one gatling turret and 4 interior turrets but they are more useful than you might initially think. There is also some "decorative" heat sinks on the top as a ship like this would likely produce a lot of excess heat from its more industrial styled systems and programs.

There is a oxygen generator and oxygen tank, unupgraded assembler, basic refinery, 8 small reactors, at least 2 batteries (specific number of batteries will be updated later), one somewhat defended antenna, 2 connector ports (one on top and one on bottom), one full size medbay, 4 exterior turrets and one very sneaky interior turret, 4 decoy blocks, one gravity generator, plenty of small cargo containers, one very industrial cockpit, 2 landing gears, 2 armoury lockers, and finally one straight hallway through the entire ship from front to back.

In some ways I would consider this to be a mid game to early late game ship as its better than the small early game ships or rovers but also not firepower/resource heavy like late game carriers or warships. However once you get the jump ring built and running this ships versatility is considerably upgraded as the jump ring's larger cargo capacity, better firepower and armour allow you to safely store resources off planet while you go explore. In short the Dragonfly combined with the universal jump ring will be your home away from home.

This ship is unique in the sense that its parred with a detachable jump ring so that when you jump into your desired location you detach the ring and head down to the planet or whatever the location is, and come back to the ring later.

The Dragonfly can take a surprising amount of damage thanks to the decoy blocks near the wingtips and heavy armour in critical locations, In fact during testing the ship could loose BOTH of its wings and still function decently and the cockpit was more likely to be shot off then outright destroyed, unfortunately though loosing the wings while in atmosphere ends much more poorly (and in a self created crater). In the end this ships survivability will ultimately depend on your piloting skills.
















(I probably should have looked first to see if "Dragonfly" was already taken as a ship name)

((NOTE: you might notice that in the screenshots there are custom thruster colour's. Those thruster colours are NOT required and you do NOT need the mod to use this ship, It is entirely an aesthetic decision to make the ship look nicer. The mod that was used in the screenshots is the Azimuth Colored Flames Pack))