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KRH Orbital Monitoring Station

Vanilla Build with optional enhancement mods.

This is a small station intended to sit in Low Orbit (within the gravity well) over a planet. The station is outfitted for survival. The intent is that a player can spawn in this station and it will self stabilize shortly after spawning. Blueprint was taken with all thrusters turned on and gyroscopes running. While the station is intended to sit in atmosphere within the gravity well of the planet, it is not intended to land. It is only equipped with Ion Thrusters. A set of large thrusters on the ventral side for hovering, and a set of small thrusters elswhere for stability.

The plan is to include a small atmospheric shuttle in one of the station's hangar bays that the player can use to travel between the ground and the station, or between the station and space. I have not yet built the shuttle.

Can hover under 0.9G while empty. This is at around 7030m above ground level.

I have not yet performed a loaded hover test to determin its lowest operational altitude and grvaity load with the station loaded down.

There is a transporter pad (optional) installed which can allow a player to beam down to the surface, however without a relay antenna on the ground, the player would not be able to remotly access the station to beam back up.

I may consider adding a deployable drop pod that would feature a relay antenna. The drop pod in this case would be very minimal. Just what would be needed to support the antenna.

Make: KRH
Model: Orbital Observation Station
Primary Use Survival and basic exploration.
Docking Ports: None
Hangar Bays: 2; Port and Starboard
Crew Capacity: 1; 1 crew stations
Passenger Capacity: None

Physical Properties

• Length: 72.5m (29 blocks)
  
• Width: 32.5m (13 blocks)
  
• Height: 47.5m (19 blocks)
  
• Mass: 2,149,587 kg
  
• Blocks: 2,088
  
• Non-armor blocks: 634
  
• Triangles: 3,939,721
  
• Physical shapes: 1,668/65,536
  
• Conveyors: 151

Power and Propulsion

• Power Systems
  • Batteries x39
    
  • Solar Panels x60
    
  • Large Reactor
• Flight System
  • Gyroscopes x16
    
  • Small Ion Thrusters x5
    
  • Large Ion Thrusters x8
    
  • Hydrogen Tanks x3

Equipment

• Medical Room
  
• Cryo Chamber
  
• Small Cargo Containers x12
  
• Gravity Generator
  
• Oxygen Tanks x9
  
• Oxygen Farms x3
  
• Oxygen Generator
  
• Refinery x2
  
• Assembler x3
  
• Radio Antenna x2
  
• Laser Antenna x8
  
• Beacon

Extra Equipment
Equipment supplied by optional mods.

• Small Shield Generators x4
  
• Transporter Pad, Single

The mods used on this build are completely optional. Loading the ship into a world without these mods will not effect performance or functionality of the ship.

Camera Panning - rotate camera view
Does not add any blocks, but allows the view from the vanilla cameras to be panned, tilted, and rotated within certain limits.

Ladder - climbable!
A climbable ladder in the aft cargo hold allows movement between the 3 levels of the station without using your jetpack.

Transporter
A single transporter pad in the main level in the central section. This device allows the player to transport themselves from the pad to another location. Other players may also beam into the station to the station's pad.
NOTE: Do not transport to the surface without having a ground relay station of some kind present as the station will be out of range of your suit radio and out of remote access range. In otherwords, without a ground relay station, you will not be able to beam back up.

Energy Shields
Four small shield generators installed in the upper level providing the station with an extra layer of damage resistance. Will not protect the station from a multi-kilometer drop. Not sure how well the shields will hold up against environmental hazards such as meteorites.

Energy Weapons
I am considering adding a couple of energy turrets to the top side of the station to add protection from meteorites for worlds that are not set to a safe environment.

This is a list of the programs loaded onto the ship's programmable blocks.

Ground to Orbit lite Computer
Written by Elfi Wolfe
Provides an auto-leveling and altitude control ystem for the station.

Automatic LCDs 2
Written by MMaster
This program runs the display system providing information about the ship and systems.