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StarTrek: Beluga Class Assault Cruiser

The Beluga Class Assault Cruiser/Operations Cruiser


This is a large vessel. Coming in at 2120m long. Though despite her commanding presence, she is conservative with her capabilities. At least in this default configuration. Though, to say she has the ability to evolve is an understatement. For she has more room than can be planned for expansion, with a void space volume of 8.77mil m³. That is on top of some sections that are planned, see my “Notes” below. I have opted for a primary Trinium build to make it obtainable as early as possible, without significant sacrifice.

Her original intention was to have a pronounced “head crest” design on both the Dorsal, and Ventral. Though while working on the top, I determined it should be asymmetrical. In the end it reminded me of an Airbus Beluga, especially with my “headlight” design. Though the name is intended to pay homage to the Beluga whale, not the plane. Anyway… Her nacelles were rather fun to make, utilizing a simple forward section, along with some prefab detail pieces, which made for a utilitarian nacelle design that wraps around, connecting at the stern. In the end this ship was extremely enjoyable to build, an nice palette cleanser another design that was proving... difficult.

She has a healthy number of weapon hardpoints. With a main battery of 8 x Size 3, and a secondary of 12 x Size 1(Edit: Correction 16 x Size 3, and 24 x Size 1 hardpoints. I forgot to count both sides). Then to complement that she has 4 Torpedo Tubes. Though limited torpedo storage by default. To aid with other operational capabilities she has two large hangar access bays on either side of the saucer section, as well as a smaller one to the rear. Which in conjunction with modifications, would see her as a fierce operations/command carrier.



Intended use: Assault cruiser. Battleship. Carrier. Whatever you want… (Honestly she would probably make a good mining carrier too, just add cargo).

Specs;
- Price Tag = 12,868,614 Credits; 1,352,857 Trinium; 363 Naonite; 689 Titanium; 101,892 Iron.
- Size(WxHxL) = 380m x 255m x 2120m
- Hull = 994,000HP
- Shields = 1,010,000HP
- Slots = 11
- Block count = 5,624
- Crew = Require 221. Space for 500
- Power = 239GW Required, 394GW Generated
- Battery = 3.16TJ
- Xavorion Class = Heavy Cruiser

Xavorion movement;
- Acceleration = 107
- Velocity = 220
- Deceleration = 55
- Yaw = 0.11
- Pitch = 0.08
- Roll = 0.17

Base Game Movement;
- Acceleration = 32
- Velocity = 639
- Deceleration = 55
- Yaw = 0.15
- Pitch = 0.12
- Roll = 0.78





Notes:

- She was built within LM13’s Xavorion overhaul. As such, I did not use gyros. That said, in my testing with a vanilla save, converting her Directional thrust to Gyro had a negative impact. While adding more would be counter productive to my needs.

- Her speed and braking in vanilia is a bit weak. So as part of a planned addition she has a –Solar Cornsilk w/ Solar Brown secondary color– Titanium Framework block to bring her speed up a bit(located behind the Impulse engine detail). As well as –Stark Dark Orange– Iron Framework blocks, that are intended to be transformed to inertia dampers.

- There is a –Solar Yellow– Naonite Framework block in the top of the “melon” that is intended for a hangar to steer her towards a more operations command vessel posture, though obviously it is your choice.

- She has stacks of Trinium Framework blocks in two of her nacelles –Lawn Green– and –Dark Orchid– these have no pre-planned use. Though if you equip a function block for one of the stacks, you will likely want to set the other as a generator.



Caveats:

- I run a modified version of BD’s ATJ texture overhaul. Your textures will be different. I have included photos of her base texture appearance(I still like it). If you use ATJs texture pack, it will look a bit different, a little more sleek as his trinium texture doesn’t have pronounced plating detail..

- There are some Scaffold blocks located through the ship. These are intended to provide a clean start/stop point for your modifications. However, It may cause visual oddities, not much I can do about that on my end. If it bugs you, try transforming scaffold blocks to blank hull, or armor. Just be warned, movement will suffer.

- I do not use Hyperspace blocks, instead relying on subsystems. As such her default jump range is, default…

- Some of the Stats in the pictures are not accurate, specifically the Yaw/Pitch/Roll. It is a minor loss as the original design had Xanion Thrust. A slightly larger impact if Running Xavorion. I took the pictures, while on my other PC so as to not screw with my mods, and then made more changes to the ship…


My Other Trek Themed Ships:

Wolverine Class - https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3280808660

Kai Class - https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3284373606