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[NS] Antares Shielder

A spaceship.
⨴ No overflow or rotational damping. Any movement must be canceled out manually - which is actually way easier than it sounds.
⨴ The chaff dispensers are made of twelve autocannons - this will ruin sensor tracking of anything in the world boundary within seconds.
⨴ If you have the SpecialEffects mod active, you'll get an exhaust plume for the main engine.






Even after cracking automated manufacturing, Nanite Systems still wouldn't have survived long enough to build the fabricators necessary to end the Collapse without vehicles like the Antares. Their CIWS and ECM systems defeated missiles and confused enemy ships, and their defensive orbments shielded other vehicles and soft targets from great range.

All of that capability only allowed most vehicles to take one more hit from the overwhelming firepower of Auraxian ships. That still meant a 50% reduction in fleet attrition rates.


To ever greater heights!

For my spaceship contest, I decided I needed a baseline combat ship, and picked another of my Space Engineers ships to build. However, with the new style established by the Eisvogel for NS ships, a grid-based recreation was out of the picture, so a total redesign was required. The general silhouette and weapons placement remains, but apart from that it is a total redesign. And though the original looks good, this looks so much better.

...With that said, it's got too many blocks to be a 'baseline' combat ship.

Overflow-damped spaceships (like this one) are not spaceships, they're submarines with rocket engines.

Shielders are active defence interceptors.
Equipped with electronic warfare systems, low-power weaponry, and shielding orbments, they weave in and out of contested space, intercepting and diverting fire intended for other ships and soft targets. These systems similarly are huge and power-hungry, and for every three lancers one shielder tends to suffice.

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