Gorgeous Ship, great layout!

Works great, thank you!

Nice! Where is this mobile base in image 11?

i really like your ship designs and sub'd to most of them. Seeing that line up it looks like a work of art can't wait to see it completed

@PapaRobzee: Not yet. It's about 80% complete, but still a work in progress. However, I did just post the Scarab ; it's fairly large by itself. ^_^

is the Manta in the picture in the Workshop?

@Atriace duly noted! Thank you for the feedback :D

@Madiku : Oh no! My greatest failing, you discovered it! lol

Sadly no. The small gravity generator must be located in that cell to cover the saucer section, and the only way to remove the radiation/cold is by moving it an additional block away from the player (which is impossible since there are no free blocks nearby to shove it into). The "Skiff Major" addresses this shortcoming by adding a larger generator, and hiding out of harms way.

Is there a way to block the cold and radiation from the grav xs once inside the shutter in the hallway?

@Xarq: Wish fulfilled; "bigger brother" posted as Skiff Major . Enjoy!

I'm glad you like it! I too like open, bright spaces, and lament my difficulties in creating those. The glass floor was an attempt to rectify that (hard to do on a curved wall), and to spice up the otherwise featureless bottom of the ship. When you park in orbit above a planet, and walk to your constructor to do some processing, it's exciting to see the asteroids and other things at my feet. ^_^

The cross-sections are created 100% in-camera, in-game. I have a base with the grid pattern, each tile being 10 blocks (for scale reference). I then use the selection tool, and cut the top off the ship. To communicate the layout as clearly as possible, I repaint the containers by type, and use flat blocks to outline the borders in white (with black trim for contrast). I then set up LCD projectors to provide in-game labels of the various parts of the ship.

As a claustrophobe, I appreciate the glass floor in this ship. :) So many blueprints for this game just feel so closed-in, which aside from triggering a sense of claustrophobia is also a real shame given some of the very pretty space views in the game. I'm thinking about starting a new save in RE2 now that I understand the scenario better, and I think I'm going to use this as my starter CV. Also, I wanted to ask what you're using to make the cross-section views in your preview pictures. Are you rendering the ships in Blender or something similar? I need something like that to visualize building in this game because I seem to be very bad at that. :)

Ahhhhh gotcha, thank you

The ship is designed for Reforged Eden 2, though the part exists in Reforged Eden 1 as well. It's listed in the "Required Items" section with a link to the mod.

@Atriace is that a DLC item? I can't see that in my items.

ExiledVibe: It's been designed for a CV "Compact Shield Generator" which occupies the provided 2x1x3 space. Alonside a Large Shield Booster (replacing the truss blocks above the ammo container) you should be able to reach 14,000 shield hit points.

Lovely ship! Struggling with the space for the shield though? the ones i have available for CV are way too big to fit the dedicated gap in the warp bay.

going to try this out right away

Welp, no more flying box for a starter CV.

It looks like its modeled after the Star Trek ship the Saber.

I LIKE IT ITS FAST AND THE BEST SHIP I HAVE

I can totally see this as one of the prefabs, really nice and cozy design

very cool ship and awesome presentation

Very cool

100000/1000000

Thank you, Purelukk! It is good to be back and playing again.

Yes, the Manta is a WIP, though one that was started during Reforged Eden 1. It's a carrier-type mobile base designed for landing on planets, with HV boarding ramps, and an SV internal hangar. Unfortunately, by the time I finished the design and ran the numbers through my spreadsheets, I realized it would never fly. Between the inefficiency of the engines, to the CPU limitations, it was an impractical design.

Now that RE2 has been released, I've updated the parts list and... it's finally viable . :D

Well done again Atriace!
Welcome back.

Will be trying it out next playthrough.

I haven't seen the Mobile Base (Manta) before.
Is that a WIP?

this thing is incredible, nice work man

Very nice design ! Great work I love it

"a taller, bigger variant of the Skiff that looks more like a Nova with raised nacelles." Yes - this please. I love the shape of this ship. It's got great Star Trek vibes but sleek.

@ArtemisRogue: See image 12 in the gallery.

Looks pretty cool !

Nice work, great aesthetic. But where is the statistics window? Where is the CPU tab? People want to know what they're downloading beyond what it looks like.

Thank you all for the kind words! I’m blushing.

@Myrmidon: It’s great to hear from you! I remember your comments from before; glad you find it worthy to join the cast.

@Xarq: A “bigger brother” like the Orca (pictured in the lineup as “Multi-Role CV”)? Or a taller, bigger variant of the Skiff that looks more like a Nova, with raised nacelles?

Awesome build and showcase!

nice looking ship! Would love to see a "bigger brother" version that can field 8 CV mining lasers and maybe dock a small SV on top or somewhere

looks very nice, cheap too.

As a long time pilot of Hauler and Barge I upvote Skiff. A valuable well designed well looking CV for starters and why not late game players, when the need justifies her spawn. One more from me.