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RFP 'Vampire'
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Type: Blueprint
Mod category: Exploration
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31 Aug, 2018 @ 10:38am
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RFP 'Vampire'

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Rapid Fleet Prototyping Project
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Description
This vessel was designed as part of my Rapid Fleet Prototyping project. For more information on this project, please see the description of the world file, found here: https://steamproxy.net/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1499175300




The Vampire is a very lightweight fighter, designed to be as cheap as possible, while still maintaining decent firepower and maneuverability. Aside from being a cheap throw-away combat vessel, it sports a set of narrow-spread gatling guns, making it an excellent turret sniper for its cost.

As part of the Rapid Fleet Prototyping Project, the Vampire was developed not only as a cheap, general combat vessel, but also as an excellent pirate hunter. With its arrangement of gatling guns and camera, it’s able to easily sit at a distance and take out turrets, before making a final approach to seize control of a vessel that can be ground down for easy resources.




Mass: 26,012kg
Block Count: 332
PCU: 2,726
Acceleration: 22.1m/s² (4.5s to max)

- Extremely cheap to produce
- Three narrow-spread, bow-mounted gatling guns
- Camera central to the gatling guns
- Two gatling turrets and one missile turret
- Full remote control package
- Full EDS package (Easy Docking System - see this documentation for details[docs.google.com])
- Contains three unused programmable blocks and five unused timers for additional customization
- Designed using my Ship Configuration Conventions, as detailed in this documentation[docs.google.com]




Toolbar 1

  1. Gatling Gun Fire Control
  2. View Main Camera
  3. ———
  4. ———
  5. ———
  6. ———
  7. ———
  8. Gatling Guns On/Off
  9. Turrets On/Off

Toolbar 2

  1. Control Docking Remote
  2. Trigger Dock Timer
  3. Trigger Undock Timer
  4. Connector On/Off
  5. Connector Lock/Unlock
  6. ———
  7. ———
  8. Main Remote Control Autopilot On/Off
  9. Docking Remote Control Autopilot On/Off

Toolbar 3

  1. Gyroscopes On/Off
  2. Thrusters On/Off
  3. Reactors On/Off
  4. Batteries On/Off
  5. ———
  6. Main Projector On/Off
  7. Docking Projector On/Off
  8. Beacon On/Off
  9. Antenna On/Off

Docking Remote Toolbar 1

  1. View Docking Camera
  2. Docking Projector On/Off
  3. Trigger Dock Timer
  4. Connector On/Off
  5. Connector Lock/Unlock
  6. ———
  7. ———
  8. ———
  9. Trigger Undock Timer

Docking Remote Toolbar 2 is identical to Toolbar 3 above
3 Comments
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rottielover 9 Jun, 2019 @ 8:21am 
For lurkers, it's easy enough to slap a landing gear onto the bottom gun and works fine there for use, just remember to turn off the gyro and thrusters or your ship will fight the inputs you make from the captured ship once you are controlling it. I also play on a server with the Defense Shields mod, the 4 light armor blocks under the cockpit make a great location for the shield controller and emitter blocks ;)
Hesterry  [author] 9 Jun, 2019 @ 2:15am 
@rottielover
Thank you! I'm glad you've found these ships useful! Good catch on the gear... Personally, I use the Phantom for turret sniping, but you're right... This should have a better placed gear for tugging ships. I'll see what I can do to fix that sometime :)
rottielover 8 Jun, 2019 @ 5:33pm 
Great collection. I started using these on a server just recently. Overall I love this and the design. I did have to add a landing gear, as this ship is an excellent turret sniper for cargo and pirate ships. However once you disable the turrets it's time to capture your prize and fly her back to home base. It's much easier to latch the Vampire on and turn off her gyros and thrusters and fly the prize back in one go. Thank you for publishing!