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The Expanse - MCRN Sunaarashi

This is a non-canon MCRN design. It is about 25% longer than the Tachi it was built to scale with, see below, as well as slightly wider and massing around twice as much. The goal of this design was to build a ship derived from the Tachi that was slightly bigger and more powerful and help me figure out more about building MCRN themed ships as I move up in size. I imagine this ship as a rival of sorts to the Rocinante, a nemesis for them to face.

This is a fully vanilla design. The increase in size has enabled a more roomy interior and the addition of features such as a cargo bay, crew quarters, and four torpedo tubes for guided missiles. There are 14 levels inside, plus the reactor space. Included is a refinery with modules, two assemblers, two arc furnaces, oxygen generators, and oxygen and hydrogen tanks, and numerous cargo containers.

Compartments include:
Flight Deck
Computer Room
Airlock
Medical Deck
Crew Quarters
Galley
Cargo Deck
Cargo Bay
Engineering
Reactor Space

The following scripts are loaded onto the ship, and there is plenty of room for more:
Whip's Artificial Horizon
Whip's Missile Launch Script
Whip's Missile Guidance Script (Guided Missiles only)
Whip's Automatic Airlock Script
ColTeH's Light Color Change Script (An update of an old script)
Automatic LCD's 2
Alysius's Floor Plan Script
Phil's Ship Diagnostics

A few design elements are from Veshka's Tachi, the ship this was built as a companion to. Those elements include the PDC (Gatling Turret) mounting points and the Cockpit Flight Seat Display. Please go check out his blueprint of the Tachi if you haven't already.

This blueprint will likely receive some updates as I find new ways to improve it... or find things that need to be fixed. If you have any suggestions or other comments I'd be happy to hear them. This is only my second workshop blueprint and I'm still learning and getting used to putting content up. Thank you.

Please feel free to modify the ship to fit your in game needs. Just be sure to give credit to the original creator.

Veshka's Tachi:
https://steamproxy.net/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=847580570

Whip's Scripts:
https://steamproxy.net/workshop/filedetails/?id=663612012

MMaster's Automatic LCD's 2:
https://steamproxy.net/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=822950976

Alysius's Floor Plan Script:
https://steamproxy.net/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=716048498

Phil's Ship Diagnostics:
https://steamproxy.net/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=715138160

My Morrigan Class Patrol Destroyer (Scipio Africanus):
https://steamproxy.net/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1397422899

My (speculative) UNN Wu Tsao:
https://steamproxy.net/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1404414444


It has (finally) occurred to me that the name of this design is only two letters off from Tachi. I didn't choose it that way, an odachi is a Japenese great sword which was used by the samurai. Both the words odachi and tachi are Japanese in origin and are related in meaning. Perhaps it is fitting that this ship, being derived from the Tachi, would be named so closely, but I do have some thoughts about renaming it and will consider doing so if you guys request it and think I should.

Again, thanks for browsing this content.

Update: New guided missiles with cameras for direct control. As there has been some confusion with the guided missiles, I'd like to clear some of that. If you leave the welders and projector on when you fire missiles, they will keep reprinting and firing the same missile. I recommend you turn them off if you want to be firing volleys. I've intentionally left several programmable blocks, timer blocks and LCD panels open so that they can be customized by you to your preference.

Update: I've changed the name of the ship to Sunaarshi, which is Japanese for sandstorm, which seems fitting for a Martian ship. Of course, now this means that every MCRN ship I have has a name that begins with S, until I change the name of the Scipio here shortly.