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U.S.C.M Kestrel
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U.S.C.M Kestrel

Description
The U.S.C.M Kestrel replaces the human ship with a smoother layout resembling The Kestrel from FTL.

I really liked the look of the vanilla human ship, but was never a fan of its awkward layout. I based this new layout from The Kestrel from Faster Than Light, in which the flow of the rooms should resemble that of The Kestrel.

The ship itself looks much like the "hammerhead" style of the vanilla human ship with U.S.C.M equipment and a blue paint job.

I used vanilla assets for the hull, however the interior is mainly taken from the USS Polaris and the USS Gilgamesh ship mods. The ship has some unique backgrounds that come with invisible blocks (craftable at a tier1 workbench) so that you can hang objects on the walls.

I also made the U.S.C.M Kestrel - Medbay Variant which relocates the player spawn to the medbay rather than below engineering, keeping the old teleporter there as well. This is if you want your crewmembers to wander around the medbay, rather than way off on the other side of the ship.
More information and the download here:
http://community.playstarbound.com/resources/u-s-c-m-kestrel-medbay-variant.4046/

Guide on packing/unpacking mods:
http://community.playstarbound.com/threads/how-to-successfully-pack-and-unpack-pak-files.66649/

The USS Polaris mod:
http://community.playstarbound.com/resources/uss-polaris-tiered-uscm-deep-space-frigate.2645/

The Starbound forum version:
http://community.playstarbound.com/resources/u-s-c-m-kestrel.4045/
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Words and Philosophy 11 Jul, 2022 @ 7:56am 
For anyone interested, I have updated this ship with a new layout and a bit of custom spritework, as well as a few compatibility features:

https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2833424441
Chronos "Salty" Pliskin 6 Nov, 2020 @ 6:42am 
I was looking at the Kestrel from FTL and this one and they look at lot different. The room layout is definitely different. However, I will say it is hard to convert FTL ships to Starbound, because they are different cutaways, even though they are both 2D games.
https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/ftl/images/d/d0/KestralASystems.png/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/1000?cb=20140406013346
Chronos "Salty" Pliskin 2 Nov, 2020 @ 11:23pm 
Also, is this smaller or bigger then the vanilla human ship, because it looks like it would be smaller?
Chronos "Salty" Pliskin 2 Nov, 2020 @ 11:18pm 
Can we get a red version of this ship that has a more vanilla style look?
Cybros Prime 19 Feb, 2020 @ 4:01pm 
max tier human ship looks like the kestrel
Cade Stirling (Riley) 11 Feb, 2019 @ 2:55am 
i just upgraded my ship to level 2 and my ship is broke XD i cant do anythin other than beam down to planet and back...there is no teleporter or cockpit in this ship at all x.x
Atomic Hobo 29 Nov, 2018 @ 10:28pm 
I like it! Quick question though, is it using assets from the USS Gilgamesh? And if so, do you have permission to use them? I ask because their med bays look pretty much identical. Not trying to accuse you of anything, just curious.

Here's a link to that mod, in case anyone's interested:

https://www.nexusmods.com/starbound/mods/135
Binch 2 Jan, 2018 @ 4:37am 
Well it kinda doesn't work, even new characters get a broken late tier human ship.
Spectreblitz 18 Nov, 2017 @ 11:23am 
XD
Cameron BB Rae 18 Nov, 2017 @ 11:23am 
Im Peacocking mfs