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Theseus Class Starcruiser

Theseus class - Starcruiser (No Mods)

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-=Manufacturer's Notes=-

Created by Terra Nova Starworks as the first class of a new generation of system defence vessels requested by the Colonial Defence Forces, and later the Terran Space Force, in order to provide security throughout the 82G Eridani and Tau Ceti star systems.

This new generation of combat capable spacecraft are slightly larger and heavier than the class of vessels that the Corporations and Martian Navy refer to as Cruisers, but not quite as heavy as some of the Heavy Cruisers that they currently have in service.
With the Terran move away from wet-Navy terminology and back to old Earth Space Force naming conventions, this new class of system defence vessel has been designated as a Starcruiser based on the fact that it's a Jump-capable (thus interstellar) Guided-Missile Kinetistar that's larger than the Gunstar system patrol vessels but smaller than a system control vessel known as a Battlestar.

As with the other Starcruisers being built by Terra Nova Starworks, the Theseus has both Ion and Hydrogen thrusters for propulsion, a double hull design with heavy armour reinforcing specific points on the spacecraft to improve survivability and is equipped with modular weapon mounts, including two pylons for various types of guided missiles and two heavy weapon turrets.
Short range defences come in the form of a variety of 25mm Gatling turrets, artillery turrets and 200mm missile turret emplacements, as well as eight Firestorm Mk I multi-barrel point defence turrets that use the powerful Diamond Dome Defence software in order to track and engage any incoming threats with deadly accuracy.

The Theseus class of Starcruiser is the original hull from which the Asterion and Atalanta are derived, but unlike the others it is only designed to operate in the vacuum of deep space and not in a planet's atmosphere and although it is capable of entering the gravity well of a moon, it cannot land on one and must rely on shuttles to ferry cargo and personnel to and from a planet's surface.

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Class: Theseus
Type: Starcruiser
Manufacturer: Terra Nova Starworks
Mass: 10,358,000 kg
Block Count: 8,977
Length: 175.0 m
Height: 52.5 m
Width: 72.5 m
Thruster Acceleration Forward in Vacuum: 7.5 m/s/s
Thruster Acceleration Upward in Vacuum: 3.3 m/s/s
Area of Operation: Space, Moons up to 0.30G.

Weapons:
2 x Heavy Railgun Turrets (3 x Railguns each for 6 in total)
2 x Weapon Pylons (Modular Mounts) with 6 x guided missiles each. (12 in total)
8 x Firestorm Mk I Point-Defence Turrets (Linked via the Diamond Dome Defence system)
12 x 25mm Gatling Turrets
4 x Artillery Turrets
4 x 200mm Missile Turrets
14 x 5.56mm Interior Turrets


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*Author's Notes*
I've released this vessel and the other Starcruisers as a special gift to all my amazing viewers and subscribers, as it gives them something to mess around with while we're all being forced to self-isolate during the COVID-19 Quarantine.
I had planned on having at least one of the Starcruisers feature in the final few episodes of Into the Unknown, but sadly I wasn't able to finish them in time due to other commitments (By the series epilogue, all that was complete was the front section and half the Living Quarters).

Heavily inspired by works including the Donnager from the Expanse series, The Hyperion Cruiser from Babylon 5, The Chogun Maxwell/Montero by Dolan, and several of the ships made by Malmhrid and Aragath.

Those default vanilla Heavy Turrets are just placeholders similar to the ones used on the Odysseus Light Cruiser and TNF Agitator by Malmhrid and are mainly for people that don't like to use mods, I've personally swapped them for Whip's Large Railgun Turrets. (Hence the two large reactors).

The self-repair projector is located in the cargo bay, but can be toggled on/off from the C.I.C, so too can the projectors for the 'fake' radiator panels - they're just for aesthetics at the moment as Space Engineers doesn't have heat management in-game, but at least we have something resembling them for all you fellow hard sci-fi fans out there.

I've left the hangar empty so that you can add your own small craft to it, it can comfortably fit an Olympus 207/MS-10 Griffin, plus the Keen default Blue Miner and Constructor, that along with the fact that it comes with an assembler and refinery means you're pretty much self-sufficient right out of the box!

-=Credits=-

Scripts used:
Whip's Artificial Horizon Redux by Whiplash141
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1721247350

Whip's Turret Based Radar by Whiplash141
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1707280190

Whip's Auto Door and Airlock Script by Whiplash141
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=416932930

Diamond Dome Defense Script and PDC Turrets by Alysius
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1734964925

WHAM | Whip's Homing Advanced Missile Script
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2108743626

LAMP | Launch A Missile Program (for WHAM)
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/workshop/filedetails/?id=2108744940

Whip's Missile Status Script by Whiplash141
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2287673468

Automatic LCDs 2 by MMaster
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=822950976

SIMPL | Ship Integrity Monitoring Program Lite by Whiplash141
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2344510837

TCES | Turret Controller Enhancement Script by Whiplash141
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2753791447


A huge shout out to Malmhrid, Dolan and Aragath, as I've pretty much borrowed a lot of their ideas while making these Starcruisers, mainly to try and make these blend in alongside their own creations as much as possible... Why?... Because I feel those content creators currently make the most realistic ships available in-game and on the workshop i.e. they're not overly sci-fantasy or suffer from the 'space is an ocean' trope like a lot of the others, which is probably why I used their ships so much in my Space Engineers series - so once again, many thanks to all you guys!!