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CSNS Bouvier

A light gunship fitted by CARBON Systemat. Naval Shipyards.

Whipple armor and fission thermal rockets.
25mm fragmentation shells and the most powerful chemical laser cannon ever fitted to a lightweight.

Bouvier is the evolution of the antiquated Rasmus, a primitive craft built out of necessity in a time where the inky black proved the truest threat, and space warfare was in its infancy-- nothing more than small arms and point attacks at routing stations. There was little need for potent machines in those early years, but mankind is not want for reason. It is a predator driven by ego over natural instincts, and thus it was only a matter of time before the arms race began.

The first organized instances of space warfare signaled the end of an era, and once again man had surpassed the designs of its old god. The threat of the void is now a pet; forged into the edge of humanity's new monuments to blood.

Late into the First Lunar War, CARBON Systemat. enacted a grand campaign of technological development and violence. Foreseeing in the shadow of its mother nations the threat of a shift in power, the corporation sought to break the cycle of control for itself. CARBON disappeared without warning once the tide of the war had made its final turn, and, following the Earthen power collapse in the wake of the conflict, reemerged into the hurting Solar System with a force exhaustive of all its preeminent power as the only true empire of the black.

The Second Lunar War would not be fought between Earthen bureaucracies and puppet-stringed battles, but between the wounded survivors of the First Lunar War, acting as the sole bulwark for all established order. CARBON was the hand feeding the Earthen governments in their presumed claims over the colonies, and the thinning background of state authority would be torn down in declaration of CARBON's secession, and de-facto establishment as a new superpower. The Earth's resources were siphoned from the shells of the governments lost in the First Lunar War, scraping together enough strength to push back against the separatist corporate forces and enforce a border. CARBON controlled as its national birthright the entirety of the Solar System outside of Lunar orbit.

The loss of the colonies decimated the capabilities of the Earth, preceding the efforts seen today by Earthen governance to gain back their footholds in the Belt and the Jovian Sector. The new order, the Combined Earth Federation, seeks to establish itself expressly in contrast to the fatal flaw of its historical self: to build an explicitly nationalized industrial base, as CARBON was surrogate for in the years before the Second Lunar War. This new dynamic is where we sit today, at the precipice of a new scale of conflict... a war beyond petty politics and independence-- the First Solar War.

CSNS Bouvier, then, is the piercing knife of CARBON's new Solar authority, built with the refined instruments designed since the precedence of space warfare: optical cannons, flak saturation, blanket spaced armor compositions, tactical maneuvering options... decisive means to end any foreshadowed encounters with CEF warships before the chance for retaliation can be exploited.

Bouvier-classes deal in precision, performing close-in assassinations on shadowy orders, the only hint of their presence before the storm being the flicker and blinding flash of its optical gun, picking away at potential threats from distances far beyond visual range. Paired automated close-in combat turrets deliver bursts of shrapnel atop mesmerizing streaks of tracer flare, hard-killing anti-ship munitions and cutting spacecraft to ribbons at danger close.

The ship is also extraordinarily fast, utilizing its enormous heat exchange system to route waste heat away from the radiators and into the pressure vessels of its drive system during combat maneuvers, boosting the ship into its uniquely excessive thrust class.

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Armament constitutes:
1x 300kW Chemical Optical Gun (autocannon)
2x2 25mm Close-Combat Rotary Cannon (gatling gun)

Maneuvering system:
3x NTEX-B thermal rocket engines (large grid small hydrogen thruster)
Networked arcjet RCS thrusters (small grid small hydrogen thruster)

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Fully vanilla.
Subgrids (not printable).
Scripted (subgrid thrust).
DLC required.

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Tip: the seats are accessible through the slits behind the side cameras (check the edges of the blast door blocks).

Note: this is a modernized and polished version of a previous build. That one is also posted on my workshop, but it makes use of a few mods and is obviously not as fresh.

Please enjoy! I really had fun going unhinged on the backstory of CARBON's militarization.