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SG-A T3 Tempest Atmospheric Dropship

The Stargazer Aerospace T3 Tempest is a multirole dropship designed to carry troops and equipment into dangerous territory in atmospheric settings, as well as provide close range air support.

My entry for the 21 UESC construction contest

Features include:

• Fully enclosed cargo bay for eight passengers protected from below with heavy armour
• Two cockpits for pilot and copilot, both accessible from the interior
• Three bay doors for rapid deployment to all sides.
• Retractable landing struts
• Hybrid power system composed of two large reactors and four batteries
• Three medium cargo containers accessible from the interior, or through the connector on top
• Oxygen tank for operations into non-breathable environments (conveyored to both cockpits)
• One gattling gun and four 2*2 missile pods armament
• Timer based sequencer allows rockets to be fired separately at higher frequency.
• Releasable decoy units below the wings
• Multi-purpose docking port below the tail to support different modules (like additional cargo/passengers, turrets, orbital engines, etc.) In this blueprint included is the SG Pebble LAV, a small 5-person rover with deployable turret and airdrop capability.
• Access hatch to enter the LAV’s driver seat from inside the dropship passenger bay
• High user-friendliness. All complex functions are set up with timers to be used with a single button press. The ship also has convenience functions like automatically enabling dampeners when the landing gear is retracted

Notes:

This ship is a rather complex build, which is why all important blocks and groups have been named properly. If you don’t know what a shortcut will do, simply hover your mouse over it in the G-menu and you should get a good idea. Pretty much all important functions can be accessed through Cockpit shortcuts and buttons, so you normally won’t have to enter the control-menu at all. Keep in mind that most cockpits have several control tabs.

Despite all the rotors the ship itself is very stable and does usually not get damaged even during extreme maneuvers. The same cannot be said for the LAV. Fly carefully when having the LAV loaded, and detach it if you want to fly the Tempest to its limits.

Also as of now, there is a bug concerning wheels in merged grids. This leads to the rover being unable to steer after detaching from the dropship. This can be fixed by cutting and repasting it. I already did a bug report and hope Keen fixes this soon.

The blueprint uses three scripts. The two on the dropship were written by myself. The Pebble LAV uses the amazing MoveIT script by Brenner (https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=461120531&searchtext=move+it+script)


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