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Ranger Mk.III

Vanilla, no subgrids, no scripts, survival.
The Ranger got rebuilt from the ground-up. General purpose runabout craft that is planetary capable. The original was built on a multiplayer server to zip around between faction bases and also chase crates.


While the large ions are heavy on platinum costs, the ship overall is built with survival gameplay in mind and is not too large. Usually you should not need to use H2 fuel unless near a planet surface. For moons and space the ions are sufficient. Solar panels, reactors, and H2 generator options for power.

Now featuring a fully functional interior with bunks for 2 crew, and a high visibility cockpit area.
The enclosed cockpit still handy for being piped into oxygen supply even if pressurization turned off.

New thruster arrangement: Removed atmo thrusters, added large ions in every dir (quite quick with just ions) and also large H2 for lifting in gravity. The ship is much faster than before.
Has small H2 and Ion in each dir to help with building stages.
Larger ramp staging area can even fit some small craft.
4 additional hardpoints on front of ship can easily handle additional turrets.
Added a refinery, it is fully capable ship.
2 jump drives.
There is some free unused space for customization under the upper and lower solar panels, and some interior block "filler" on top.
Large H2 tank could be swapped for a large cargo, there are a few more small H2 tanks.
Landing gears spread out some, and with additional wheel impact support. No damage sustained in 11mps parachute landing.

Blocks: 780
PCU: 7,916
Refinery: 1
Assembler: 2

Empty mass: 1.27M
Max lift on earthlike: 1.9M. It has enough cargo space to be over this weight!
Earthlike Ion-only hover altitude (empty): 12km (0.62g)
Pertam Ion-only hover altitude (empty): 3km (0.8g)

This ship on mod.io: https://spaceengineers.mod.io/ranger-mkiii4