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[HS] CEU Beowulf Battleship [BT]

No Mods, No DLC, Survival Capable.
Experimental Mode only – Block Limit exceeded, includes scripts.




BLOCK LIMITS MUST BE DISABLED. UNSUPPORTED STATIONS OPTION OR PASTING ONTO AN ASTEROID LOCKED GRID STRONGLY ADVISED.

BEOWULF IS CURRENTLY SET AS A STATION, THIS MEANS IT WILL NOT MOVE UNLESS CONVERTED TO A SHIP. USERS SHOULD CHECK THEIR CPU LOAD WITH BEOWULF SET AS A STATION, USING THE SHIFT-F11 MENU, BEFORE CONVERTING TO A SHIP AS THIS VESSEL IS VERY CPU INTENSIVE. UNLESS THE SIMULATION CPU LOAD IS LESS THAN 50% AS A STATION, YOU MAY NOT BE ABLE TO MAINTAIN SIM SPEED 1.0 AS A SHIP, WHICH WILL CAUSE THE WEAPON SYSTEMS TO MALFUNCTION



Class: Beowulf
Type: Battleship
Role: Main Line Combat, Flagship
Environment: Space Only
Crew: 60 + 8 Marines

Details

• Mass: 53,946,380Kg
  
• Block Count: 48,052
  
• Grids: 94
  
• PCU: 348,043
  
• Length: 327.5m
  
• Width: 157.5m
  
• Height: 70m
  
• Maximum Forward Acceleration: 5.29 m/s/s
  

Weapon Systems

• 64 x Light CIWS Turrets
  
• 44 x Heavy CIWS Turrets
  
• 28 x Gatling Turret
  
• 61 x Missile Turret
  
• 4 x Auto-Tracking Heavy Gatling Turret
  
• 9 x Auto-Tracking Twin Rocket Turret
  
• 5 x Auto-Tracking Octo Heavy Rocket Turret
  
• 14 x Optically Guided ECM Micro Missile (2 x 7)
  
• 30 x Optically Guided Micro Missile (2 x 15)
  
• 16 x Optically Guided Standard Missile (4 x 4)
  
• 8 x Optically Guided Hydrogen Missile (2 x 4)
  
• 4 x Optically Guided Heavy Hydrogen Torpedo (4 x 1)
  
• 1 x Optically Guided Titan-Killer Missile “Dragonslayer”
  

Support Systems

• 12 x Decoy Launcher (2 x 12)
  
• Hangar – Four Bays
  
• Full Pressurisation
  
• 26 x Jump Drive (km Range)
  
• 18 x Basic Refinery
  
• 4 x Refinery
  
• 12 x Assembler
  
• 22 x O2/H2 Generator
  
• 33 x Oxygen Tank
  
• 26 x Hydrogen Tank
  
• Self-Repair System – Thrusters and Weapons
  
• Medical Suite (4 x Medbay)
  
• Marine Barracks & Armoury
  
• Captain's Private Quarters
  
• 73 x Cryopod
  

The largest and most powerful ship ever made by Hyperion Systems, the Beowulf class Battleship is a force to be reckoned with. Heavily armoured and armed with over seventy reloadable guided missiles and extremely potent short range weaponry, it is more than a match for even the largest contemporary warships.

Beowulf's colossal rear thrust array can generate over 274 meganewtons of thrust, propelling the warship forward at a market leading Isaac-Newton-Approved acceleration of over 0.5g, enabling it to catch almost any contemporary ship of it's class.

The vessels outer hull is almost entirely heavy armour, with any exposed light armour re-enforced with blast doors, however Beowulf's best defence is its overwhelming amount of short range weaponry. In excess of two hundred guns cover Beowulf's outer hull and this massed firepower is able to swiftly destroy almost anything within eight hundred meters.

Beowulf's primary method of attack is it's vast array of missiles. It is able to engage targets both in space, with its ion based missiles, and within gravity wells, using it's hydrogen based missiles. The ship sports six varieties of missile, from the small but chaos inducing ECM Micro Missile to the mighty titan-killer “Dragonslayer”. This versatility enables Beowulf to engage a wide range of targets, although it's main purpose is to seek and destroy other heavy warships and starbases.


MISSILES

The instructions for all missile systems are displayed on LCD screens in their respective control rooms.
The Engineering & Missile Control flight seat in the CIC has it's toolbars set up for all the missiles, but I'd recommend checking out each of the systems in their own control rooms first.



Here are a few tips:

• NEVER USE A LAUNCH TIMER IF THE MISSILES ARE NOT LOADED
  
• All missiles are optically guided. Fire and Forget systems are too CPU intensive at this scale.
  
• “ACTIVATION TOGGLE” Opens the associated doors and turns on the projectors and timers. You will need to do this before doing anything else with the missiles.
  
• “Reload” Begins the associated Reload Sequence (Performance Warning)
  
• “Launch” Begins the associated Launch Sequence (Performance Warning)
  
• Use the associated “Designator” to control the missiles.
  
• All missiles except the Heavy Torpedoes and Dragonslayer are fired in salvos
  
• All missile systems need a 1.0 Simulation Speed to guarantee reliability, this is best achieved by setting Beowulf as a station. Deleting missiles that miss is also a good idea.
  
• REGARDING PERFORMANCE: The most CPU friendly and most reliable missiles are the Heavy Torpedoes. Try these, they should work fine. The least reliable are the standard Hydrogen missiles and the Dorsal Micro Missiles. Everything has been tested and does work, but a background Simulation Speed of less than 1.0 is likely to invoke Clang.
  

Warning: Always check that the projectors are switched on before reloading any of the missiles. You can see the projectors when in the missile control rooms, or by using the associated camera. You may need to cycle the projectors on and off using the toolbar before they display. This is a bug I think

TURRETS
All rotor based turrets are slaved to Designators. Take control of the designators to control the rotor turrets. Turret Control is in the CIC.

• [ORTP] & [ORTSB] Designators – Port and Starboard Heavy Turrets
  
• [HGTXXX] Designators – Heavy Gatling Turrets
  
• [XXX] Designators – Twin Rocket Turrets
  
• [VB] Designators – Ventral Rocket Turrets
  
  

This ship is dedicated to my first 1,300 Followers. Thanks for all the support!

Beowulf took several hundred hours to build and set up and I think it's probably the best thing I've ever built. It's something I've always wanted to make, a flagship for my fleet. I hope you all enjoy exploring it, blowing stuff up with it and of course, crashing it into things. Please let me know what you think.

I'm not a fan of the standard block textures. This ship looks best with this mod:
https://steamproxy.net/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1290717482

The ships in the GIFs:
Titan Cruiser by JD Horx
https://steamproxy.net/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=829988229
Sovereign Titan by K_Medlock
https://steamproxy.net/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1328510215

Radar, Auto-Door, Optical Guidance, Turret Slaving, Weapon Salvo, Artificial Horizon and Launch Control Scripts by Whiplash141. You can check out his awesome work here:
http://steamproxy.net/id/Whiplash141/myworkshopfiles/?appid=244850

Floor Plan script by Alysius: https://steamproxy.net/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1507524960

Auto-LCD Script by Mmaster: https://steamproxy.net/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=822950976

I stole Skeeter's toilet.

IF YOU FIND A BUG/PROBLEM, LET ME KNOW!