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Typhoon-Atheris Racing TA-R Calor Pack

Typhoon Industries and Atheris Shipyards proudly present the Tyhpoon-Atheris Racing TA-R Calor pack! This pack comes with not one but two of the fastest and most beautiful racers ever created in Space Engineers. Press 9 to turn on the heat sink system and watch as their signature captivating glow intensifies.

When you subscribe to this mod, you get a small, portable platform with two ships attached: a Typhoon Racing black and red variant of the TA-R Calor, and a light gray and green one in Atheris Shipyards livery. To pick one, all you do is disconnect it from the connector and then exit and re-enter it. Doing so activates the gyroscopes.

==Toolbar==

1: Increase gyroscope strength
2: Decrease gyroscope strength

9: Heat sink system on (glow automatically intensifies according to reactor output, which looks SPECTACULAR)

==Stats==

Weight: 63,238kg
Reactors: 59.00Mw
Gyroscopes: 12
Dimensions: 34 blocks long - 17 blocks wide - 7 blocks tall
Acceleration: ~2.4s to 104.5 M/s
Handling: bruh

==Lore==
Following a string of massive racing successes at the hands of their Osiris supercar, whose racing version was completely unaltered from the consumer version, the Galactic Spaceship Federation, the sanctioning body that oversaw virtually all motorsport in the Milky Way, decided that it had had enough of Typhoon Racing's constant victories. A month after the end of the 2069 season, Tyhpoon Industries headquarters recieved a notice that it would not be allowed to compete in the 2070 season.

Things looked grim for Typhoon. Not only had they already spent $10,000,000 on a completely new platform with which to contest the 2070 season, but the military branch had been suffering from a lack of sales; in fact, the only things keeping the company afloat were Osiris sales and tickets to Death Hornet II shows and museums. Most of the previous season's winnings had already been spent on pilot and crew salaries, as well as research and development for the new racer, though many observers considered it doubtful that the new racer would have ever reached completion anyway before Typhoon Industries was forced to shut its beloved racing arm down.

However, Typhoon Racing was in luck: as it turned out, a German military supplier by the name of Atheris Shipyards, known for their beautiful and extremely deadly range of fighters, had been looking to get into racing for the past year or so, after their CEO had bought a Typhoon Osiris and described the experience as "breathtaking." Hearing of Typhoon Racing's troubles, Atheris Shipyards moved swiftly to form a partnership with the down-on-their-luck racing team; in fact, it's often said that as Typhoon Racing Chief Engineer Tymon Barry was walking out of Typhoon Racing headquarters for what he thought would be the final time, he was approached by Atheris' CEO just as he was stepping out of the airlock. Within a week, Atheris Shipyards agreed to buy half of the racing team, and it was promptly rebranded as Typhoon-Atheris Racing.

After exploiting a loophole in the GSF's regulation to get reinstated, the reinvigorated team - now made up of personnel from both Typhoon Racing and Atheris Shipyards - got to work re-creating the unfinished ship, and then set about coming up with a distinctive body design. As ever, Tymon Barry and his crack team of veteran racing ship designers handled the internals, once again springing for an Azimuth reactor and six Azimuth BIG thrusters - four mainsails and two reverse thrusters, just like the Osiris. A Keen Space Engineering Medium Cargo Container was to handle fuel and oxygen storage duty, however this time it was backed up by a number of KSE Small Cargo Containers with emergency fuel stores in the event of a malfunction with the main container. These were in turn hooked up to a small conveyor that also handled the oxygen system. The result was a fuselage that was as compact and simple as possible, which shortened the ship's overall length, therefore helping maneuverability.

After the internals were copied from the unfinished prototype, Atheris Shipyards took over the design of the hull, moving the two work-in-progress ships from Tyhpoon Racing's secret R&D lab in the Far Rim to their own design lab on 031 New Final Front, a beautiful garden world that housed the main Atheris shipyard and headquarters. Here, flanked by such gorgeous ships as the Ascia-class Heavy Destroyer and the Vipera ASV, the new racers - now tentatively named Typhoon-Atheris TA-R (short for either Typhoon-Atheris-Racer or Track Attacker-R), began to take shape. On Typhoon's recommendation, Atheris went with RiderCorp Modular Thrusters, and overall the design was based more around protecting ship systems than remaining light - a huge departure from Typhoon's previous designs. Partway through development, it was discovered that the reactor would frequently overheat due to not being able to vent efficiently compared to Typhoon's relatively open "fish spine" fuselage design. To counteract this, Typhoon Racing assisted Atheris in devising a heat sink system: heat would be dexterously routed out of the reactor and into heat sinks on the sides and bottom of the ship. These were then fitted with color-coded caps that made the heat sink (and the entire ship) glow brighter or darker depending on reactor output. The caps were added as a joke at first; however, they were kept after the team discovered that, as well as making the ships look incredible, they also aided in identifying the ships from far away. The word "Calor" - Roman for "glow" - was subsequently added to the end of the ship's name.

Just four months after the end of the season, the two ships - one black and red, with a red glow, and one green, black and silver, with a green glow - were finished and ready to compete. The reception to the TA-R Calor racers was initially strangely mixed; everyone was certainly floored by their incredible design as well as the menacing glow the ships took on when they were fired up - but the more skeptical were concerned about its weight; it was bar-none the heaviest ship in the field. However, doubters were roundly hushed in the first round of preseason testing; the two Calors topped the time sheets on both days, and would continue to dominate testing throughout almost all of the preseason, with a lone Aegis 07R finding its way between the Calors in one round of testing.

Once the season started, the brand-new Typhoon-Atheris Racing proved without a doubt that being banned from the GSF Galactic Space Racing Championship hadn't slowed it down one bit. It opened the season with five straight 1-2 finishes, and went on to complete the season with victories in all but three races; their collection of wins included defending their title in the 24 Hours of the Veil, where the more robust hull proved its worth by absorbing a rather nasty hit that would have otherwise severely damaged one of the reverse thrusters.

By all accounts, the TA-R Calor was yet another success for Typhoon's racing record, but importantly for Atheris, it also brought their company into the public spotlight. After the success of the TA-R Calor, they found themselves being contacted increasingly frequently by both private militias and governments who wanted access to well-built, beautiful and deadly ships. Thus the Calor marked a new era of prosperity for both companies.