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"Heartseeker" Critical Loaction Seeker Crusier

Hello everyone! This is my 4th workshop creation, featuring a mobile and armored medium sized cruiser-class ship. I made this without the use of mods, due to possible incompatibility across different servers. If you have any suggestions for me, this creation, and/or future creations please do comment, becuase I'm still a relatively new ship creator and am aleays open to condtructive criticism. I hope you enjoy!

*Note the pictures were taken before the update that changed the armor textures*

Main Purpose/Description:
This ship is medium sized, heavily armored, and has great acceleration for its weight. This ship's front is supposed to look decietful: It has a layer of light armor on the front. Yet, it is backed up by heavy armor, essentially creating two layers of armor. This ship has 12 heavy rocket launchers on it and a great turn speed, so as a result its main objective is to get around larger or similarly sized ships and hit the rear or another important area. (Hence the name "Heartseeker", plus it's red and also kind of looks like a heart when viewed from the top).

Features:
Thruster damage friendly
12 frontal rocket launchers
Heavily armored backup control center
Great forward acceleration
Great turn speed, able to dodge
Rockets are connected to the storage crates
Named cockpits and lights
Able to take multiple hits, made from mostly heavy armor
Some room availible internally for modifications or extra parts you wish to put in
Survival ready (Rockets and uranium inside)

Backtory (Lore):
The Special Operations Large Armored Hardpoint Seeker, or simply "Heartseeker", was a dreaded component to most faction's fleets. The Heartseeker usually came into a skirmish after fighters had scouted out the enemy's capital ships. Their weaker areas or areas that had a large grouping of important components were tagged, and the Heartseeker then came in. The Heartseeker used its forward acceration to quickly get behind the tagged ships and fired into the points. With the capital ship's important systems down, the rest of the fleet could then swiftly move in and finish the job. The Heartseeker was designed at first to be a brawler/surprise ship. The designers made a layer of light armor on the front followed up with heavy armor to coax enemy captains to fire on the front instead of the sides and especially rear, where it was actually most lightly armored. The Heartseeker, called the Trickster at that stage, was met with moderate sucess, with most problems coming from the grouped up rocket launchers on the left and right arms. A major battle had made the Heartseeker what it is now when the usefulness of the frontal acceleration was realized when fighting a very large destroyer. More thrusters were added, along with 4 more rocket launchers and it then became a massive success. Not trading protection for mobility made it the perfect special operations ship, and it is still able to go face to face with ships and come out victorious, as long as there are no heavy fighters involved. The Heartseeker generally does not have to worry about fighters, due to the quickness of its attacks, but if the captian decides to stick around, the Heartseeker needs anti-fighter support for it has no gatling or missle turrets of its own.