*UPDATED* "Star Explorer" Leviathan Class Cruiser (Complete!!)

**NEWLY COMPLETED**
Ive been working on this ship all week, Its huge. I plan on going exploring with it. It has 5 Large resource containers, 6 Large reactors. When its using full afterburner, it reaches speeds up to 72m/s, reaching only 78% reactor capacity. Starts and stops on a dime, turns almost too fast. Only a few thrusters are hidden. the back engines arent finished yet, i plan on reinforcing them a tad.
Tell me what you think!!!

"STAR EXPLORER"
Class: Leviathan Starcruiser
Weight: 3,562,877 kg
Power: 7,446 GW (capacity maxed at 80% w/ sustained flight)
Speed: 75m/s after 20 seconds max thrust
Utilities: 1 Refinery, 2 Assemblers, 3 Medical Units, 4,000,000c3 ft storage (4 Large Storage Cont.), 4-5 Large Reactors, Ore Scanners, 4 Antennas, 3 Pilots chairs.


Steam Workshop Savegame: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=190258261
Take it for a spin!
(shuttle, heavy fighter, and Spacestation comes included)





MOST CURRENT LOADOUT
Older model, W/out upper catwalk or front hull armor


Now with reinforced Aft engines!







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Base color, No exterior lights
FRONT
Rear view, 3 hangars of various sizes Building process: COCKPIT and SCIENCE WINGS NacellesIts BIIIIiiiiig Building the engine housing/post/<a href=

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Ahm.... i dont know what to say... its AWSOME!!!!!!

But i think in a "real" battle you will lose your rear Engines very Fast!...

 

Agreed, but it's already too fast for its own good, to lose the back engines would only slow it down a lil bit.
Thanks for the comment. The hip is still a work in progress

 

Hehe, one of my ships is also called the Leviathan

Nice job, it reminds me of the Tantive IV from Star Wars

 

The bow of my Explorer does kinda look like Tantive's. only mine is a biiiit bigger. Most of the front hull is "Armor". Other than a few small thrusters and a couple headlights, the bow is about 6 blocks thick

 

Is it possible to share ships/game saves? This looks like it would be fun to take for a spin

 

. You can post save games to steam workshop

Yeah, you can look up "Geo-Scout Microship" for the steam workshop address. I have to update it though. The link on there is a save game from yesterday, when the cruiser was only half finished. Check back in like 4 hours, ill post the save game after I get off work

 

Here ya go, type this in the URL bar in the steam overlay
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=190258261


Theres not many Airlocks on the ship, you can enter through the docking bay. The cockpit is accessible by a ladder in the midsection, or the lazy way; the busted window on the side where there should be 2 panels. # entrances in the rear.
Space base has a secret entrance into the crust of the asteroid, its actually completely hollow. Neat thing there.
Have fun

 

Neat.
Your design is pretty interesting.
I still try to find a good one for me.

 

Completely and utterly impracticable design there... which looks wonderful!

 

Impracticable?! lol The engines maybe... But I like the design! The engines are spread out, so if I take a direct hit to the rear, theres a slim chance theyll knock them all out. A hit to the "Halo engine-mounts" wont knock out all of the rear engines, they should hold on. Ill do some crash tests just to be sure of my Hypothesis

 

You should make a secondary bridge aka Battle Bridge. Your bridge area is too exposed. In a heated battle, you are exposed to every danger that you will face with this ship. So maybe that your main bridge can act as your everyday exploration / Mining, while you hide yourself in a more protected battle bridge. I wonder about the inside

 

Ill post more pics of the inside, it's veery spacious. I agree with your idea, I just like being able to see the whole ship from the bridge. I think I'll take you up on that idea. Maybe some red walls.... Tactical room

 

Oh, and btw, the tower on top of the ship just houses a large thruster, I meant for that to be
Like a battle bridge, lots of turrets will be mounted there. The pilots chairs are below the tower, accessible by ladder.

I like this kind of constructive criticism though, that's what designing ships is all about