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Orinocco SC-1 (No Mods)

Introducing L3 Engineering's latest in space exploration vessels, the Orinocco class science cutter. Designed to replace Mars Colonial Authority's aging Caledon class science vessels, the Orinocco contains everything necessary for deep space endurance and exploration for a crew of six (more with cryo chamber rotation). It comes equipped with four Cydonia Dynamics E-16x engine nacelles giving the Orinocco advanced gravity assisted thrust technology and jump capability. A MMaster master damage control and display computers and a ZerothAngel ship management computer comes standard with each Orinocco. The vessel is designed with a main hangar and large ventral areas to dock small ships or drones to service any deep space mission. It is also easily modified for conveyor dependent application such as defensive turrets or weapons. With backup power, solar arrays and oxygen farms, this ship is survival ready. Complement it with the L3 Engineering support craft series Rhino and Scarab drones to support any mining, manufacturing or salvage operation.

Equipped Features:
6 specified control stations
1 large reactor
4 small reactors
20 batteries
8 solar panels
8 gyros
4 main thrusters
4 gravity drives (2x2)
6 oxygen farms
4 oxygen tanks
1 oxygen generator
1 refinery with addons
1 assembler with addons
18 small cargo containers
8 solar panels
1 antenna
1 laser antenna
1 collector
1 connector
3 programmable blocks (special thanks to MMaster & ZerothAngel for their scripting)
2 timer blocks
1 Projector (for large grid blueprints.)


Designer notes:
The Orinocco is survival ready and has no mods for maximum compatibility. It is designed to be relatively modifiable, so feel free to modify it and show me what you came up with. :)

Like my other ships, the gravity drive is meant to be turned on through the "Gravity Drive Main Power" group and thrust controlled through the "Gravity Drive Thruster Control" group. I set up toolbar shortcuts on some control stations to make it a little easier. When powered and with inertial dampeners on, the ship will move at about 2m/s, this is normal and you can use a combination of thrusters and inertial dampeners to see how nicely she accelerates.

There are four jump drives which can take a strain on the ship's power system, so turn them off if you don't need to use them all (or cycle them if you want to do rapid short jumps). With all four drives active you can jump 5025 km.

ZerothAngel's ship manager script will lock any door that has a pressure differential, so make sure the section you are in is equal to the pressure on the other side of the door. Sorry, I didn't have room in the airlock for a button panel so you'll have to manually activate the airlock vent directly.

Finally, if you like it please give it a rating. Thanks!

Here are links to MMaster and ZerothAngel's workshop pages for their excellent scripts:
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/id/mmaster/myworkshopfiles/?appid=244850
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/id/ZerothAngel/myworkshopfiles/?appid=244850