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HSV Twilight's Hammer - Carrier (AI fighters, 300m!)

Name: HSV Twilight's Hammer
Type: Judgement-class carrier
Payload: 24 AI drone interceptors (Ignis)

Rating: Vacuum only

HSV Twilight's Hammer is direct descendant of HSV Judgement of Iron: Compared to original Judgement of Iron, Twilight's Hammer increases the original design's payload of 6 fighters to 24, whille also incorporating heavier layered armor. This is made possible due to Cratos engine's increased thrust, and superior sensors.

This increased weight and carrying capacity mean that the new HSV Twilight's Hammer loses "Light Carrier" type and becomes "Carrier" instead.

Crew comforts are also kept in mind as the ship also includes actual beds.

This ship is also more performance-friendly as it has less interior lights and conflicting objects.

Survial ready-ish (as in, this is quite of an large ship for survival).

Ship's fighters are automated: once they are released, they will seek and destroy hostile targets.


CONTROL:
To launch fighters, the carrier should be still (or at least not move around too much) and airtight hangars should be open (Main flight seat, page 1, button 4 ('open' -all hangar doors-)).

If you want to launch all fighters at once, press 1 to launch all fighters.

If you want to manually launch fighters by wing, select page 2 or 3
Page 2 contains Board (left side) fighter bays, in descending order from front to back (1 launches prow fighters, and 4 launches rearmost bays
Page 3 contains Starboard (right side) fighter bays, in descending order from front to back (1 launches prow fighters, and 4 launches rearmost bays

Fighter bays:

Wing Alpha: 2 fighters in prow (page 2, slot 1; page 3, slot 1)

Wing Bravo: 2 fighters in front board (page 2, slot 2)
Wing Charlie: 5 fighters in board (page 2, slot 3)
Wing Delta: 4 fighters in Aft board (page 2, slot 4)

Wing Beta: 2 fighters in front starboard (page 3, slot 2)
Wing Carrion: 5 fighters in starboard (page 3, slot 3)
Wing Lamda: 4 fighters in Aft starboard (page 3, slot 4)

Optimal attack range for the fighters is between 1000-1800m, but the fighters will attack targets up to 5000m away. Because of the drone's incapability (currently) to halt themselves fast enough to both remain in attack range and not ram the target, it is likely that if they are sent against targets more than 3000m away, the fighters overshoot and make only 1-2 passes on the target before losing lock.

Fighters are most likely to correctly attack targets if they are launched to the direction of the enemy. And likewise, the fighters are more likely to miss targets if they are launched from the side opposed to enemy (ie, starboard fighter launch if the enemy is on board side)
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The fighters use sensor-based location, so it is advisable to have trash auto-removal on, and set to linear moving objects of ~6 blocks, this helps with drones as they are less likely to rush off chasing battle-thrown gyroscopes or something like that.

It should be noted that only the Cratos Thruster and Super Sensor are neccessary to make this ship work- the decorations are just what they are, decorations. Feel free to ignore them if you like.


Configurable Automatic LCD's by MMaster
Skybox: Dead Space Skybox

Update 1: Fighter launch drag reduced