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KDI Amarok Class Cruiser

Vanilla: Yes
Survival Ready: Yes
Planetary Capable: Yes, vertically.
DLC Blocks: Yes. For aesthetics, not structurally necessary.

Length: 64 Blocks, 160 Meters.
Size: 7,457 Blocks. 66,067 PCU.
Dry Tonnage: 8,505 Tons.
Max Jump Distance: 2,941 Km.
Max Acceleration: ~34.0 m / s^2

I've found this ship and other ships with large conveyer systems and hydrogen thrust can encounter issues when initially pasted in. My current fix is to add a small hydro tank (and maybe another conveyer junction), let the tank fill up, then remove it and anything else I added. After that, things seem to work fine. No idea why it works that way.


Knightmare Defense Industries presents the Amarok Class Cruiser. The Amarok is designed as a large fast attack ship able to catch smaller enemy ships and escape larger, more durable warships. This design is intended as one of the first of a new generation of warships. The Amarok has a few significant upgrades over older KDI designs. The first of these is a major thrust increase that gives it a roughly 50% greater acceleration rate than the next closest KDI ship, the Eridania. This suits its intended role as a fast attack ship quite well. The other major upgrades are primarily centered around Programmable Blocks with useful scripts, more efficient system design, and a new hull paint scheme. Though the ship is capable of lifting off of any planet, it is not equipped for landing and requires modification to do so. The class is named for the Amarok of Inuit mythology, which would stalk and devour people foolish enough to hunt alone at night. While wolves usually hunt in packs, amaroks hunt alone.

The Amarok uses a complex Hydrogen-Ion Drive which produces 288 MN of force, making it the most powerful drive fitted to any KDI ship. Its Jump Drives are capable of a maximum jump distance of 2,941 KM. The ship carries 46 large turrets, 24 Gatling and 22 Missile, with 18 Interior Turrets and 12 forward facing Rocket Launchers. Power is supplied by 2 Large Reactors with several Small Reactors and Batteries as backup. The ship's hull is mostly light armor, with a few layers of heavy armor at the front and around critical ship components, and a heavy armor frame running through the hull for structural integrity. The ship has a hangar, medical bay, basic refinery, assembler and survival kit. There are also parachutes at the front in case of emergency, but landing gears should be attached to the bottom of the ship if you intend to land on planets.

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. I used some of Whiplash141's scripts on the ship, including their braking script for "flip and burn" situations, and a few of their mods for taking the screenshots. The mods I used to assist with the screenshots came recommended by Taidyr, who makes some fantastic content as well. I used Darth Biomech's Milky Way Skybox mod as well. Links below. I got inspiration for this ship from ships shown in The Expanse RPG book, I highly recommend The Expanse's books and show.

Whiplash141's Workshop

Taidyr's Workshop

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.



The turrets are set up in groups for Whip's AI turret slaving script, but that program block is disabled. If you want to use it, simply turn it on, and if you really want to, modify the turret groups.

Whip's automatic door script is equipped but disabled. Enable if you want that.

The Thruster Heat Sink script is equipped, but currently broken as far as I can tell, so that program block is turned off as well.



Alright. This one was really fun at first, then became a slight nightmare. Originally this ship had a 320 or so MN drive, which gave it an acceleration of 36 m / s^2. This was all fine and great, until I took the darn thing out for a combat test and found that sim speed dropped to 0.5 when I pressed w. Naturally, this is not something I desired. So I went through a few hours of back and forth designing (after the many hours already spent getting it finished in the first place), steadily altering the drive until it not only produced less lag, but still performed relatively well. It still lags a little for me, but only slightly in most cases. For whatever reason, I found that it and a few other ships still lag a fair amount in world's with planets. Bummer. I'm really not sure why that is (or why the original design was so plagued with lag). But despite that shortcoming, I put a lot of work into this ship and I'll be damned if I'm not going to share it. I hope it serves you well.


If you have any questions, comments or feedback about the ship, please leave them in the comments below. I'm always looking to improve upon my work. If you enjoy the Amarok Class Cruiser, likes are greatly appreciated. Thank you for browsing this item. Safe Voyages! Papple.