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CSV 1337 Rusty Bucket

Civillian Shipping Vessel registration 1337 Rusty Bucket. "She may be ugly. She may be slow. But at least she flies."

A family-owned freighter, the Rusty Bucket (pronounced Roostey Bouquet, at the insistance of her owner) has been in operation for well over a hundred years. Originally a Hynerian short range shuttle, she's been retrofitted and upgraded so many times over the years that her hull is unrecognisable and unique. Most notably her engines have been upgraded, with a full FTL drive-sled being fitted to the underside/rear of the ship. Being originally of Hynerian design meant that the ship and her upgrades were relatively cheap. However as the average hight for Hynerians is about three feet, it also means a lot of bumped heads on the low ceilings.

Currently configured for long range passenger and cargo transport. The Rusty Bucket sports a jerry-rigged cargo grappler and cold storage external cargo bays, an ample hold, and one of the most uncomfortable passenger cabins in the quadrant. It's also been suggested that she may hide some hidden smuggler holes for transporting less than legal cargo.

As a civilian ship she is, by law, unarmed. And though her armour is fairly robust the after-market shield generators are on the weak side.

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This is the second ship I've built so far in Starship Evo. My first being a small one man fighter. I mostly used this as a way of exploring and learning some of the more complex logic and mechanic systems of the game. Beginning with the cockpit and working backwards from there. So the quality will vary wildly throughout the ship. I've tried to go back and re-work some of the earlier stuff, but I'd rather start a new ship than completely re-design this one.

Hopefully every button, switch, and slider should function. So have fun fiddling with them all.

I also made the unfortunate mistake of starting to detail the outside of the ship with some cool-looking but fairly time consuming designs. Which I honestly just abandoned out of boredom... Re-doing the same pattern over and over really sucks the fun out of building! But it's meant to be an ugly ship, so I'm just gonna leave it as is.

I've not hooked the landing gear and other components upto any hotkeys by choice. I like the idea of having to push buttons and have a multi-crew setup to fly it. But it does make landing and takeoff a bit awkward solo. I recommend spawning it in space and then extending the landing gear before entering gravity if you want to land. Or get a friend to do it!

The only technical issues I've noticed are a few instances of the game not handling the amount of stickers well (especially at distance), and a few clipping issues around the original cockpit blast shields. There also seems to be an issue with the loading ramp clipping with the ground when It doesn't seem like it should.

All in all this took me far too long to finish up, but I learned a lot in the process and I think there's some fun little details here and there. Hope you enjoy it!

---Update---

Fixed an issue with the gravity generators overlapping causing increased gravity in some parts of the ship. Thanks go to Kwyzar for pointing it out!