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Matsuba Ardea S1

The Ardea S1 is a large and luxurious personal transport, designed for ambassadors and executives to take a small retinue with them on diplomatic or business initiatives. Armed with a small amount of concealed weaponry, its surprising speed and agility for its size compliment to produce a capable vessel in a fight, a needed luxury in the vast emptiness of sometimes hostile space. Also featured is a sizeable cargo bay, with a hidden stash and a maglock arm to store and transport small hovercraft, allowing for visiting locations without suitable landing areas.

See Images for Stats.
10ly jump range.
Crew: 1 to 3, bunks for up to 4 & seating for 10.
Interior: Engineering, Guest Bunk, Crew Bunks, Main Suite, Rear Lounge, WC, Shower, Storage Rooms, Office, Front Lounge, Kitchen, Medbay, Cockpit.

Controls & Systems:

Cockpit -
1- Open/Close Rear Ramp
2-n/a
3- Deploy/Retract Front Cannons
4- Deploy/Retract Ventral Turret
G: Toggle Landing Gear & Engines
Cockpit Buttons (L to R) -
Deploy/Retract Ventral Turret
Deploy/Retract Front Cannons
Deploy/Retract Landing Gear
Swivel Cockpit Chair

Logic Trays in rear cockpit cover all logic apart from Reactor 'Fuseboard' , Engine Mechanisms & Rear Ramp.

Ventral Turret controlled from a station hidden under the coffee table in the main lounge. Toggled by red button on the table side.

Locking entry lift - the 'lock' is a switch under the kitchen counter, or a linked button inside the front landing gear mechanism. Once unlocked, its is opened/ closed with the red buttons. Shipped Locked.

Locking Stash - this switch is inside the logic panel in the cargo bay/garage, at the very bottom of the panel. the lock status is indicated by the light under the opening switch. Shipped unlocked.

All weapons are inactive unless deployed.

All Custom Doors.

if 'negative power balance' message shows, go to engineering, place a block and turn all reactors off and on, this should solve things.

Notes: Had a lot of fun making the curves of this, but it has made the space usage really inefficient. i'll be working on this in future builds, but i still love the sleek looks of this thing. Enjoy! - KM