Space Engineers

Space Engineers

53 ratings
THE EXPANSE - MCRN Eridania
   
Award
Favorite
Favorited
Unfavorite
Type: Blueprint
Tags: large_grid
File Size
Posted
Updated
6.636 MB
20 Jan, 2020 @ 7:05pm
21 Mar, 2020 @ 11:20am
3 Change Notes ( view )
You need DLC to use this item.

Subscribe to download
THE EXPANSE - MCRN Eridania

In 1 collection by Papple2
The Expanse - Ship Collection by Papple2
8 items
Description
MCRN Eridania Class Destroyer

Length: 53 Blocks, 132.5 Meters.
Size: 4,132 Blocks. 43,139 PCU.
Dry Tonnage: 4,921 Tons.
Max Jump Range: 4,064 Km.

This ship is vanilla and survival ready. It does use DLC blocks for aesthetic improvements, but those blocks are entirely or almost entirely not structurally necessary. If you do encounter a major issue, please, let me know so I can resolve it.

Knightmare Industries presents the MCRN Eridania, a new Martian Destroyer design, part of Knightmare Industries' latest generation of ships. The Eridania is designed for speed and firepower, sacrificing durability and maneuverability. It accelerates faster than most other KMI designs thanks to a primarily hydrogen thruster arrangement, and it carries comparable firepower to the larger Arion Class Destroyer. The class is named for the Eridania Quadrangle of Mars.

The Eridania's engines are mostly Hydrogen based, with some Ion Thrusters for backups. To increase endurance, the ship has 9 Hydrogen Tanks with 8 O2/H2 Generators. Power is provided by 2 Large Reactors and a substantial Battery backup system. The ship is equipped with 8 Jump Drives. The Eridania is armed with 16 Gatling Turrets, 16 Missile Turrets, 9 Interior Turrets, and 12 forward facing Rocket Launchers. The hull is mostly light armor, with heavy armor concentrated at the front and around critical areas. The ship is equipped with 1 Assembler, 1 Basic Refinery, a Medical Room and a Survival Kit. There are 5 Connectors with a small hangar for auxiliary craft.

There are several interior compartments, including the Bridge, Main Airlock Room, Medical Room, Galley, Crew Facilities and Quarters, Hangar, Machine Shop and Engineering.

The ship is built fully vanilla and survival ready, with an interior in the style of "The Expanse." I use a light changing script to switch around the interior light settings. Its an older script and I couldn't find the original creator. The script was updated by ColTeH for my use. There are also a few other program and timer blocks if you need them. You may have noticed already, but the ship uses DLC blocks. Credit for the font used in the thumbnail goes to domain101 on reddit, who recreated the font from The Expanse. Link below.

https://www.reddit.com/r/TheExpanse/comments/avhb9i/the_expanse_font/

Milky Way Skybox by Darth Biomech

Please feel free to modify the ship to fit your in game needs. Just be sure to give credit to the original creator.


Author's Notes
I've been wanting a proper Martian Destroyer design for a while now. Nothing quite fit though, either lacking in looks or being the wrong size. Finally I had some ideas for new engine designs I wanted to try, and it eventually evolved into the Eridania. Somehow that got very efficient. The design is smaller, faster, better armed, has better versatility, better Jump Range, and greater endurance than other destroyer sized designs I've produced. Though to be fair, there isn't much competition, with the Kelpie being the only other recent destroyer design with hybrid engines. Actually, the design is faster than almost every other design I've put out, beating even the Griffin, although it does sacrifice a lot of side thrust to do so. I was very surprised when I took a step back from the nearly finished product and saw what it could do. I learned a fair bit putting it together and applying recent lessons in ship design. There is a lot of interior thrust, and you'll see that if you look in the back. This was also a design I took a bit more time in planning out, albeit just the engines. It turned out quite well for that, making me wonder why I stopped. But I digress. I'm very happy to put this on the workshop, and I hope you all enjoy it.

If you have any questions or comments about the ship, please leave them in the comments below. Thank you for browsing this item. Safe Voyages! Papple.
22 Comments
Papple2  [author] 31 Dec, 2023 @ 1:19pm 
Not sure the mods were around at the time, plus this was intended to be vanilla.
.408TacticalSnack 31 Dec, 2023 @ 12:46pm 
Why no Epstein?
Papple2  [author] 21 Mar, 2020 @ 7:14pm 
Glad to hear it works well for you. Yeah, that's hydrogen ships in a nutshell. Did what I could to give it as much capacity as possible. 10 Large Hydrogen Tanks isn't too shabby, at least.
Larry Canionga 21 Mar, 2020 @ 6:39pm 
I decided to build this ship in survival as a late game ship and I'm pretty impressed by it. Good firepower, great acceleration and maneuverability and can even hover in planets! Only downside is that it consumes hydrogen like a beast but I built a space tether in Europa to supply hydrogen as needed :)
Papple2  [author] 28 Jan, 2020 @ 10:40am 
Likewise, though that reminds me that I need to get some of those patches in the first place. Got a few t-shirts at least.
Takara 28 Jan, 2020 @ 9:46am 
im such a big fan of the show i even walk around in public waring my MCRN/ Mars Flag patches with the Tachi patch on my left shoulder. Im such a odd Geeky girl.
Papple2  [author] 25 Jan, 2020 @ 6:26pm 
@Hisaw It isn't based off of anything specific. I incorporated design elements from the Siren and Wendigo, but that's about the extent of it. If there are specific places I got inspiration from, I usually mention that in the notes at the end, or if I used something else as a reference, I'll mention or link that.

@M3TALxPuNiSH3Rx Glad you like it! We haven't seen too many ships, specifically warships, in The Expanse, and I've longed for more. I started making custom ones like this that follow the theme of The Expanse. All my specific Expanse designs and most of the KMI ships are Expanse style. I'm hoping that they'll come out with a book on Expanse ships soon.
M3TALxPuNiSH3Rx 25 Jan, 2020 @ 2:52pm 
I just started watching "The Expanse" so to see this is awesome!!
Xcetaura 25 Jan, 2020 @ 2:40am 
Is this based off of Jrandall design from Empyrion or are his MCRNs based off of your designs?
Papple2  [author] 23 Jan, 2020 @ 6:04pm 
Glad you like them Blade!