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Radiant Surveyor

Radiant Surveyor is a multirole ship for exploring the heavens. Hydrogen-powered and planet-capable, she can house three ships/drones and has full production facilities. Nuclear power and ample hydrogen storage support long-range missions, and three jump-drives will get you there. A gravity-drive economizes on fuel consumption while in space.

Specs:
* 2273 blocks
* 1700 tonnes (dry)
* 19651 PCU

Propulsion:
* H2 thrusters (4 large for lift; 4 large hydrogen tanks for storage)
* gravity drive (3x3)
* 3 jump drives (4415km range, dry)

Carrier Facilities:
* 2 drone docks (dorsal)
* 1 flight deck (aft)
* ship docks are all both small-connector and large-connector

Command & Control:
* 3 flight seats, fully configured (pilot, gunnery, drone-control)
* multiple cameras for visibility
* 9 Programmable Blocks
* Advanced LCDs 2 by MMaster
* Isy's Inventory Manager
* SIMPL by Whiplash141
* Telemetry Plus by TechCoder
* Blarg's Ascent Cruise Control
* Isy's Simple Doors
* Whip's Artificial Horizon Redux
* 2 spares

Armament:
* 1 artillery
* 2 Gatling turrets
* 4 autocannon custom turrets (6 guns each)
* 1 Gatling custom turret (4 guns)
* 3 decoys (although they are more for lightning protection)
* repair projector

Power:
* Large nuclear reactor
* 2 small nuclear reactors
* 18 batteries

Production Facilities:
* Large Refinery (4 yield modules)
* assembler (4 speed modules)
* 2 large cargo
* several small cargo

Life Support:
* Medical Bay
* Survival Kit
* Cryo
* 4 airtight compartments, all airlocked
* O2/H2 generators & O2 storage

Miscellaneous:
* ground access via piston/ladders (via lower-engineering)
* side-docks with personnel access and docking cameras
* 1 landing gear forward, for parking and salvage-capture
* exterior cargo access in belly for dumping salvage into
* instructional datapads in pilot's seat

Uses lots of DLC. Has many subgrids. No mods required but Digi's Camera Panning recommended for improved camera visibility. I also use an ore-detector range-extender mod but it isn't required.

Survival shakeout flight descending to Alien Planet in 1.1g passed with flying colours, although you want to watch your ship mass on planets with more than 1g (Pertam, Alien).

Max recommended gross masses:
* 1.0g: ShipMass 2200 tonnes
* 1.1g (Alien) 2000 tonnes
* 1.2g (Pertam) 1833 tonnes

Mining drone and utility drone (welder/grinder) are both configured to auto-dock on their respective connectors. After completing the mission, manually fly to somewhere with line of sight to the docks and press 7,8,9 on the toolbar to enable the AIs. You can do it from farther out but it'll take longer - their speed limits are low to prevent docking incidents.

The little cargo ship on the flight deck is heavily taken from "Cargo Skiff" by Mr B but adapted for H2 propulsion and other modifications added.