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Blue Mining Survey Ship_Mk9b

This is the MK 9 Demon Class Blue Mining Inc Survey Ship.

This ship represents 10 years of evolution surviving in Ramblers frontier as a renegade prior to the recapture of Jupitor base.

This is the B variant, with Vanilla Jump drive (normally runs FTL mod), and pirate Helm. Oxygen supply is fully functional. Blue Mining Inc recorded one of its flight testing sessions with one of these ships and the video is available above.

Further changes have subsequently been made however these have not been listed in the workshop.

Mods used: (will function without these they are non-structural)
Dark Machinus
Bunks
Kolt switch panel.
Star trek disruptors
Letters mod

LCD is configured to communicate with the Frontier Economy Mod, but you can set it to whatever you like.

Demon Class makes it the renegade version and gives it more flair, although it is no longer used by renegades, it is more streamlined than the normal space only version, and is capable of operating in most planetary gravity wells.

It also removes the missile battery, and battle bridge and replaces it with an open plan engineering section and additional defensive missile turrets to replace the missile battery. After the battle for Blue Mining, it was deemed no longer necessary to have such heavy offensive armament, and it was removed to save weight for operating in an atmosphere. It has got increased defensive capability however, running disruptor class cannons, designed for repulsing (pushing back) attacking ships attempting to board it in order to escape.

This particular variant although still heavily armed is more designed for passenger missions, light trade, or transporting troops. It foregoes the harsher military spec FTL drive for a more luxurious jump drive, and panoramic windows.

It contains 4 Option module hardpoints for merge blocks. These have previously contained the Captains personal shuttle, additional battery pods, a drilling platform, and a heavy lifting attachment for towing a stranded ship off a planet. One module is currently occupied by battery pod 4.

In addition to that there is some connector hardpoints. The one on the left is designed to work with attached conveyorer connectors for example on a trading module, or a drilling material feed. You merge your module on the left and make sure a connector aligns with the connector so the option module has access to the pipe network.

The one on the top is for quick small shuttle resupplies.

It has beds for 4 off duty crew or sleeping passengers. Seats 4 Crew on duty, has 2 cryo chambers and a med bay.
There is a small enclosed hangar at the front with a connector, and two airlocks at the rear of the CNC section.
It can hold quite a few passengers and one security guard in the passenger section.

It is generally used for most survey, mining, supply and rescue missions by Blue Mining Inc in the sector.

Features: Redundant power reactor array, backup batteries, and solar panels. There is also a system backup reactor in the forward section.

Most internal compartments can be sealed off from the rest of the ship to conserve oxygen or stop leaks from hull breeches. It has 3 control points to allow for backup control on failure of a primary cockpit.

There is also an observaton post in the engineering section.

Although the missile battery was removed, two single missile tubes were retained at the front in order to crack asteroids open. In an emergency these can be used as offensive launchers, but this is not their primary role.

This is a fully certified planetfall ship.