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Artifex-class factory ship

The Artifex-class (meaning Craftsman in Latin) is what would be classed a light factory ship. Featuring a longer, slender design and two mining lasers to feed into the factory innards of the ship, the Artifex-class is capable of turning raw materials from asteroids into both coils and the more scarce hyper coils. Two large rear thrusters propels it along at a good pace whilst plenty of internal space can hold raw materials and manufactured parts alike, whilst armour and point defence lasers can protect it from pirates and the like. With a supply chain stemming from copper, the Artifex-class can make an excellent return on invenstment, both in terms of monetary cost as well as ship manufacturing.

Cost: 295,000 denarii.
Top speed: 62.4 m/s
Crew: 34 minimum, 34 capacity.

Systems:
1x control room
1x coil factory
1x hyper-coil factory
1x 12-stack storage bay
2x 4-stack storage bay
2x large thruster
2x mining laser
2x medium reactor
2x fire extinguisher
2x airlock hatch
4x 2-way small thruster
4x crew's quarters
5x crew's bunks
6x 6-stack storage bay
8x point defence system

The Artifex-class is a capable ship for any system wanting to get more out of their raw materials. Whether it's via buying copper from local stations and returning a profit on investment or by mining asteroids itself and turning the raw goods into more desirable materials, the Artifex-class is the go-to ship.