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O.S.A. Pioneer Vessel 'Roquette'

”Axel chuckled. ‘No, my ship barely has guns on her.’ He made a showy gesture toward a flat, yellow-painted ship with an offset cockpit flanking a broad, open door to what looked like a cargo hold. Through the opening Hjalm could see a pair of stocky utility craft, commonly used to move heavy objects. ‘The Roquette can do some heavy lifting though,’ Axel said cheerfully, ‘even in an atmosphere—but she’s no fighter.’”
-From The Fleet Beyond Neptune

The Roquette is an HEV-2 auxiliary ship capable of transporting equipment and materiel between space and a planet’s surface. She carries Pioneers – the combat engineers of the Alliance who specializes in tasks such as salvaging, demolition, construction, and the capture and later repurposing of enemy equipment.

Her attached large container gives her a reasonable cargo capacity and can carry additional equipment by locking them onto her exterior hull. She carriers two small craft that can weld, grind down or move objects. These are hydrogen-powered, and although they can operate in an atmosphere they will rapidly run out of hydrogen unless frequently refuelled.

General characteristics:
▪ Crew: 1 pilot + 3 crewmembers
▪ Length: 50 m
▪ Width: 57,5 m
▪ Height: 17,5 m
▪ Mass (standard equipped): 870 703 kg
▪ Block count (without smallcraft): 705 blocks
▪ Block count (with smallcraft): 838 blocks
▪ PCU count (without smallcraft): 7 092 PCU
▪ PCU count (with smallcraft): 9 259 PCU

Armament:
▪ 3x 25mm Gatling Turrets

Features:
▪ No mods or DLCs.
▪ Can land on planets and launch back into space.
▪ Has a hangar with two docking points for small utility craft.
▪ Carries one manipulator craft, and one grinder/welder craft.
▪ Has a large cargo container for hauling missions.
▪ Has on-board production equipment to refine ore and assemble components.
▪ Cockpit seat with information screens and toolbars.
▪ Jump Drive with a range of 2 000 km.
▪ Contains fuel and components – tested in survival.

Known issues:
▪ None at the moment.

Acknowledgements:
▪ The radar panel uses Whip’s Turret Based Radar script by Whiplash141.
▪ The information screens use MMaster's LCD 2 script.
▪ The screen showing the planet's horizon and the ship's heading is using Whip's Artificial Horizon Redux script by Whiplash141.
▪ The doors and airlock are operated by Whip's Auto Door and Airlock Script by Whiplash 141.


For those who like the setting and lore surrounding the Alliance: consider reading The Fleet Beyond Neptune[www.amazon.com], my book about the conflict between the Alliance and the Fleet.