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The Avalon Battleship - Gravity Cannon and Manufactorum-Equipped

edit: A new version with a remodeled interior and better subcraft in a standalone World can be found here

A colossal (and only mildly laggy) Survival-Ready Battleship designed to act as a mobile deep-space baseship. Equipped with two colossal Gravity-Propelled Cannons capable of loading a variety of ammo types, along with numerous cannon emplacements, those pesky cargo ships will never mock you again. A vast hangar bay gives you room for all your favourite support craft, as well as a lower hangar level for maintainence or just even more subcraft.

Controls

The Gravity Cannons
The main console in Command controls the Gravity Cannons from Tab 2 (upper Cannon) and Tab 3 (Lower Cannon) respectively. The Twin Welders are... somewhat chuggy on the system in Creative Mode, so if you want to toy around with it in Creative, search Timer, go to the matching "Ready" block for the type of GPC Shell you loaded and hit Trigger Now. Don't worry about the Barrel Covers either, they open and close as part of the assembly and firing sequence.

Buttons 2-5 select ammo for loading and are as follows;

2: Yellow Tab - Solid Armor. It hits and goes thud.

3: Red Tab - Explosive. Warhead in the tip and a Container behind it. Load it up with Explosive Pallets via the menu (they're the only Small Containers you'll find in the cargo menu once it connects itself upon completion), and if you're VERY lucky you'll get an extra big boom when those go off.

4; Black Tab - Decoy. Decoy Blocks stuck in a big-ass bullet. Fire it with something from the other barrel and watch the turrets focus on it while the other one hits.

5; Green Tab - Cargo Pod. Not strictly a weapon, instead a means to fire off cargo over long distances. To use it safely, set the timer to how long you think it'll take to reach it's destination and Start it before firing. When it elapses, it'll fire retros and stop. To use it unsafely, aim it directly at your recipient and fire blindly.


The Manufactorum
At the rear of the Lower Hangar Deck is a small Manufactorum construction cell capable of producing replacement subcraft if/when accidents or combat losses occur. The console to your right (facing from the way you came in via the hangar door in the ceiling) is equipped with controls for the welders, the merge block release, and Tab 2 has a list of the nine projectors, all of which are loaded with blueprints. The merge blocks on the craft are superfluous, just remove them once construction's finished

1; Viper Interceptor - Who doesn't love a good Battlestar Viper?

2; Turtle Shuttle - A small eight-man shuttlecraft. It's battery-powered, so let it charge a little before disconnecting the merge block.

3; Flying Squirrel - A heavy-duty cargo and crew transport. Also capable of combat.

4; Flying Squirrel Type-C - A Cargo varient that can drag BumbleMiners to-and-form asteroids due to their own slow speed. Also useful for holding derelicts in place with it's nose-mounted landing gear while they're grinded down for parts.

5; BumbleWelder - A bumbly repair craft

6; BumbleMiner - A bumbly little mining craft

7; BumbleGrinder - A bumbly little grinding craft.

8; Sidewinder Recon Craft - A long-range FTL-equipped reconnaissance craft designed to scout for useful ores with the Overclocked Ore Detector in its nose. Or to go find someone/thing you don't like and mark their GPS coordinates for a Gravity Cannon shot.

9; Toolbox Pod - A remote-controlled Cargo Pod designed to sit on-site and act as a small mobile base for construction and mining work. Contains; 4x Refineries, 4x Assemblers, 6x Oxygen Farms 1x Large Cargo Container. The module sockets are also left exposed in order to upgrade the Toolbox as you wish. There is also one docked in the Hangar Deck opposite the Bumblepods for immediate use.