Subscribe to download
SCT-A 05 Sound Mirrors

The Sound Mirrors is probably my favorite ship ever. Built around a powerful gravity drive system with automated rocket salvo turrets and boasting a jump range of approximately 7,000 kilometers, Sound Mirrors is a descendant of the original Bermuda-class frigates (designated SCT for Special Combat Type), specifically the SCT-02 Southern Gothic. Being last in line of the 11 Bermudas ever produced by Coyote Orbital, it has all of the extensive upgrades made to prior ships of the class and many other (mostly aesthetic) tweaks.

Re: DLC and mods. This ship was made for internal Coyote Orbital use only, and it's only being released now because I don't play this game much anymore (college :/ ). So it uses (probably literally) every DLC. I don't think you need all of them necessarily; it might be painful, but only SotF is structurally necessary. Most of the ships I built over the last two months are more or less the same, because I just got bored of the vanilla detailing...sorry ; p (Actually i ended up removing dlc bc it was rlly easy lol)
You don't need the Defense Shields mod either, but shields are part of the original design so I put the mod here as a requirement. If you really hate shields, just ignore the Steam popup and it will be fine.

This ship was born and blueprinted in survival, so that should answer any questions about whether it's survival-ready...hint: it is. In addition (like all of my ships made for the SkunkWorks servers), cargo containers come preset with "Special" custom data for Isy's Inventory Manager; when docked to another vessel or station running Isy's, the SCT-A is resupplied automatically.

pls liek nad subscrioob if yuo liek. i luv 2 know wat u thimk of my shipes

(Learn more by uploading .sbc file to SEPraisal[spaceengineerspraisal.net])
-Mass: 3,887,218 kg with all the stuff I had in it (x3 inventory)
-PCU: 45,667
-Blocks: 2,923 main grid, 3,326 total
-Acceleration: 0-104 m/s in approx. 3.5 seconds forwards/backwards, all other directions approx. 6 seconds. Yeah. It's fast.
-Scripts: Gravity Drive Manager, Whip's Turret AI Slaving Script, Whip's Weapon Salvo Script, and last but not least, Fancy Flight Info by Blargmode. This script is optional; due to its constant, large updates (or something, I'm not a geek) it is not recommended for multiplayer servers. It does however look VERY cool. Sound Mirrors in particular will likely make any server have a bad time, due to the sheer number of displays it has, so take that into consideration.

Tab 1:
1-Forward camera
2-Open/Close rocket launcher hatches (make sure these are open when you fire)
3-On/Off toggle for repair projector C (alignment controls for this are on tabs 8 & 9)
4-Fire forward rocket launchers
5-Jump for jump drive A
6-On/Off toggle for gravity drive programmable block (turn off when delicate movements are necessary. turn on to go fast)
7-On/Off toggle for turret group programmable blocks (AI slaving and salvo)
8-On/Off toggle for shield structural integrity mode (to the person who made this necessary...you know who you are)
9-Up/Down toggle for shields

Tab 2:
1-On/Off toggle for jump drive A
2-On/Off toggle for all jump drives (this and the previous function were both used for wormhole transit on SkunkWorks)
3-Jump for jump drive B
4-Jump for jump drive C
5-Jump for jump drive D
6-Jump for jump drive E
7-Jump for jump drive F
8-Jump for jump drive G
9-Jump for jump drive I (for whatever reason I skipped H on here sorry)

Tab 3:
1-On/Off toggle for ship gatling turrets
2-On/Off toggle for ship missile turrets (the vanilla ones)
3-On/Off toggle for big thrusters (because SMAC complained these were too hard to dock; use in conjunction with #6)
4- On/Off toggle for point defense turrets
5-On/Off toggle for depressurize on ship vents (I think this is what it does but not sure)
6-On/Off toggle for smol thrusters (left turned off for aesthetic reasons)
7-On/Off toggle for designator turrets
8-Stockpile On/Off toggle for ship hydrogen tanks
9-Stockpile On/Off toggle for ship oxygen tanks

Tab 4:
1-On/Off toggle for battery recharge
2-Increase shield recharge rate
3-Decrease shield recharge rate
4-On/Off toggle for antenna
5-On/Off toggle for beacon
6-Fire turret rel. rocket launchers for laughs
7-Jump for jump drive H
8-Jump for jump drive I
9-Jump for jump drive J

don't worry abt anything else i definitely did NOT forget what the other toolbars do

Sound Mirrors boasts more gyroscopes (3 separate gyroscope upgrades were made to the Bermuda design over the course of its life, and these ships now turn like a dream), an upgraded gravity drive, slightly upgraded TR3 MOD2 turrets, an adjusted (less annoying to restock) number of point defense turrets, and cool new Wasteland update blocks. There's just...uh, a lot. I also messed with the lighting and FFI displays for probably a decade to get what I wanted. Like predecessor SCT-A 04 Dies Irae, it is named for a song by Swedish electronic band Covenant.

The styling incorporates influences from Taidyr's frigates, especially the ICM Raihani (KMI Siren-class refit) and some aspects of the later Ridill-class frigate. These more recent stylistic choices, as well as FFI shenanigans, were first tried out on the Dies Irae. I used a blueprint of that ship as a template to print Sound Mirrors, and made most of the aesthetic changes during its slow printing process.

My slides and cutaways were made with the Green Screen skybox and some editing in paint dot net; the awesome logo is courtesy of Paralix (ty soooo much!). Screenshots use Realistic Skybox and Apothilight, plus some FOV tweaking (nvidia ansel i loooove u)