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(TEF) ARTEMIS B Artillery Corvette (modless)

The Artemis B-class Artillery Corvette is a large grid warship with a decent amount of weapons, heavy armor plating, interplanetary usage and jump-capability. This ship is fully vanilla and survival ready

This is my second large grid ship for my TEF faction I published it 367 days after the release of my first one the Artemis A. Unlike its predecessor, this one is equipped with the XGL-200 gravity gun from Major Jon, I also added gatling turrets, repair welders, ion thrusters and I redesigned the bow, lower hull and bridge windows, and it has (obviously) a different paintjob.

• Gravity Gun - The ship is equipped with an gravity based railgun system.
  The Ammunition consists out of warhead based HE (High Explosive) projectiles, very effective against every large grid threat.
  
• Survival-ready- Pressurized rooms, Airlock, Cargo- and Oxygen-Storage, fully conveyered.
  
• Anti-Missile Armor- The ship has additionel armor layers at the back and anti-missile cages at the windows, which can hold of the first missile hits effectively.
  
• Durable Armor- The ship is build with a mixture of heavy and light armor to offer the right mixture of manouverability and protection.
  
• Interplanetary Usage- The ship is able of flight and land in the atmosphere of a planet or a moon, to reach other planets quickly it has a jump drive installed.
  
• Repair System-Multiple repair welders at the side mounted turrets and at the bow rocket launchers greatly enhances the durability of the ships primary weapon systems

Like the Artemis A these ships were technically upgraded Ariane-class research vessels which were equipped with weapons and additional hull armor. The Artemis A was built to destroy small lightly armored crafts, but always struggled in attacks against large and heavy armored ships. In 2239 the SPAT and other pirate factions have formed the Black Sail Corporation which gave them the ability to build much larger and more powerful ships, after significant losses, the TEF Ministry of Defence ordered the development of a new type of corvette able to effectively damage and destroy large ships.

Under the name Project 34 the TEF Design Bureau used the hull of the Artemis A Corvette but decided to built in an experimental XGL-200 Gravity Gun by Helios Defense Sytems. This weapon system proved as reliable, cheap and easy to maintain. The XGL-200 accelerates 8,4 ton projectiles with an artificial gravity value of 3.00G and a rate of fire of up to 60 projectiles per minute.
To protect the larger gun area at the bow the armor was reinforced and the bow was redesigned to hold four 200mm rocket launchers instead of three. The designers decided to sacrifice the top connector platform for an additional 154mm gatling turret, to further improve the ships Anti Fighter capability the designers replaced two 200mm rocket turrets with 154mm gatling turrets.
To improve the durability of the main weapon systems the main turrets and the bow rocket battery is equipped with repair welders.
I case the Artemis B runs out of ice the designers installed some ion thrusters to give the ship a bit of thrust in such a critical situation, due to this decision the lower hull was redesigned.
After a testing phase of one year the new Artemis B corvette was comissioned in 2240.

„Stay at a Range of one to two kilometres, aim slightly above and BOOM“
A captain of the TEF´s 4th Corvette Squadron.

The Artemis B is primarily a second line support ship which gives the fleets capital ships fire support and missile protection. Because smaller attack vessels and fighters are capable to engage and harass even large capital ships, the role of the traditional corvette, serving as a nimble patrol- and escort vessel, had to be extended to more combat orientated vessels. The Artemis is capable of beeing an effective anti fighter ship which can wipe out nearly every fighter or gunboat.

Corvettes of this class are very easy to maintain and repair and can be operated by a small crew, allowing a cost-effective usage of the ship.
The Artemis B operates on a combination of hydrogen, atmospheric thrusters and ion thrusters. Despite carrying around 1.717 tons of weight, she is still pretty maneuverable in her weight-class, while also providing a coverage of heavy armor-plating. The ship is strong enough to counter its own weight under 0.25G-conditions, allowing it to operate above non-atmospheric moon surfaces and planetary surfaces on 1.00G and above. The ship is very power efficient threw the use of hydrogen thrusters the ship can be powered by only two of the twelve installed nuclear reactors.

For a corvette the Artemis packs quite a punch. The vessel is able to outgun and keep up with smaller gunboats, fighting other corvettes or frigates and offers enough firepower to engage and destroy even larger ships. The main battery consists of four fixed forward mounted 200mm rocket launchers, combined with two 200mm missile turrets and three 154mm gatling turrets. Either controlled by AI or through the gunnery seat, the turrets are intended to directly target, destroy key-compontents on enemy vessels and hold off enemy fighters and keep larger ships at distance while destroy them with the devastating firepower of the XGL-200.

The, now better protected, Bridge features a small grid main information dish which displays everything the pilot need to know. The ship has one pilot seat and one co-pilot seat which can be used for controlling the turrets. The captain´s chair is placed in the middle of the bridge for having a good view at the situation.

The interiour is basic but fully pressurized rooms, personal storage, Cryo-Chambers and a Medstation provide the crew with everything they need to stay alive, but luxury is not the strong side of the TEF Navy especially not on small escort vessels.

Like the Artemis A the B features a top airlock which also leads to the bridge. For planetary exploration the ship has also the ventral Airlock which is the easiest way to get out of the ship.

I hope you like this ship and if you have constructive critism write a comment.

The ships programmable blocks are loaded with these scripts:
Floor Plan Script Mk 1 by Alysius
Whip's Artificial Horizon Redux by Whiplash 141
Whip's Auto Door and Airlock Script also by Whiplash 141
Automatic LCDs 2 by MMaster
Thank you for your awesome scripts!

Many Thanks to Major Jon for creating the XGL-200 and other awesome plug-ins!
You can check it out here:
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/workshop/filedetails/?id=1772450971
Thank you Game horizons for testing my Artemis A, my improvements on this corvette are based uppon his test results.