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[NS] Rigel Lancer

A space drone. It falls apart when shot, don't worry.
⨴ This ship is fragile - if you so much as sneeze on it, it will shatter. Don't fly into debris clouds.
⨴ Missiles are sensor-guided. They'll reliably track and kill anything unless there's chaff or debris in range.
⨴ If you have the SpecialEffects mod installed, you'll get the white engine plume in the screenshots.







Fitted with high-power orbments of exquisite construction, the Rigel was built in the uncountable billions towards the end of the Collapse. Able to throw these vehicles at Auraxian fleets in such numbers, they could find the firing patterns required to break their zemurite armour with sheer brute force.

To this day, Auraxian mastery in growing and manipulating zemurite hasn't been surpassed, and it is only used in small amounts for exotic applications. The very idea they could build entire fleets out of it was unbelievable. And despite finding this flaw early in the Collapse, it was only towards the end that they could actually capitalise on it.


Having finished off the Antares, I had a flash of inspiration. This was the result.

I wanted a replacement for the Strigon anyway mostly because 1. its missiles were useless, 2. proper (heavy) missiles couldn't be mounted due to the vehicle's design, and 3. its aesthetics were... outdated. This design solved those problems.

Previously, this vehicle packed 4 20x autocannons and four of Mango's CSRAAMs, but the missiles were broken by an update and I made a tiny drone with 3 15x autocannons (which makes 4 20x cannons on a ship with a spinal cannon rather embarrassing). Upgrading those weapons made this thing into a hulking brute instead of a feather-light MV dancer, but that suits me just fine - space vehicles don't realistically benefit from enormous acceleration or agility anyway.

Lancers are long-range attackers.
Equipped with directed-energy weapons and orbments, they strike from great distance to devastating effect. The enormous size and power demands of armaments built to reach over light-seconds almost always results in purpose-built ships, with defensive measures left to shielders.

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