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LAS Hygelac NAGELRING-class cruiser (vanilla+, survival ready, yard, carrier, mass driver)

Greetings engineers!

Welcome to the LAS yards and the unveiling of the LAS Hygelac, the first NAGELRING-class mass driver cruiser.

Meant to be a main line warship, with limited carrier, missile and torpedo destroyer capabilities besides its main attack option - the Grizzard mass driver and gauss rifle - the entire chassis of the (now) venerable ARONDIGHT gauss frigate has been expanded, improved and optimised.

The result is an engineering marvel, if I might say so. The NAGELRING class is extremely heavily armed, clad in (now thanks to the latest update vanilla clean) heavy armor, highly efficient in fuel consumption, yet versatile with hangars and manouverable enough to bring its firepower to bear.

As a cruiser, the LAS Hygelac is larger and more versatile than her smaller cousin, the LAS Nagelring of the ARONDIGHT class. Where the latter carries a single HAG 20 gauss rifle, the cruiser can vary its weapon fire:

for warship hunting duties, a mammoth Grizzard gauss rifle and mass driver is the preferred 3km+ attack option
-the crosshairs have been kept, albeit replaced with a different layout-
dual heavy Delphinus (Whiplash141) torpedos are the 1km to 3km attack option
four Javelin (Rdav) homing missiles for everything up to 800 meters

as with all my designs, the Hygelac has fired all projectiles at least once without problems, as this very uploaded ship has done magnificently and without problems

and of course, 5 missile turrets and over a dozen heavy gatling turrets for direct automated attacks
besides the classic 4-MRM rocket launcher broadsides

Based on the efficient design of the ARONDIGHT class, the newer warship has the same 360° firing angle for its conventional weapons, thus freeing personel and lowering the overall burden on machine and hardware.
While I am talking about hardware, unless you permanently keep the javelin systems ready to fire, you can use these two construction assemblies for drone manufacture and small craft repairs.

A this ships very core is a dual large reactor installation for heavy duty combat power. The capacipators, inhibitors and manufacturing systems can overcome the fuelcell engine if taxed for some time. Under normal circumstances, the fuel consumptions is near 0, as the LAS Hygelac can run for almost 5 days on batteries alone. Given the plentiful installed solar panels, no problems with peace-time duty should occur.

Batteries and gyroscopes are installed in ample force to both support the main ion thrusters and the mass drivers subsystems without creating havoc for the main ship. Two fully operational airlocks and said hangars make entering and leaving the ship in suit or craft an easy task. Strong internal defense systems prevent this from becoming a liability. A third minor hangar is installed for guests in the aptly named guest shuttle bay.

In the unlikely event of critical damage to all systems, anemergency gravity drive (enclosed with some 4-9 layers of heavy armor/decks between) has been installed, linked directly to the secondary command seat of the bridge (for the next update, I will include these settings to the control station inside the communications installation). With that, the cruiser should never be a sitting duck once it has sustained a certain degree of damage.

Grizzard gauss rifle and mass driver with 4 pre-installed gauss rifle bullet types
four pre-installed and working RDAV streak Javelin missiles (auto-targeting)
two capital ship torpedos, Delphinus, pre-installed and working
tight 360° conventional large and small bore (gatling and interior turret) defense
classic 4tube broadside
omni airlock
armored oxygen farms
orientation panels, cameras and sights
large (almost larges, piston free vanilla possible), medium and small hangar
drone-control deck with installations to overcome the on-player-per-grid limitation
all timer controlled and streamlined
emergency systems, alert and self destruction included
dual large and combined fuelcell power generators
class 2 hyperdrive (2 cores)
guest quarters, quarters, brigg, strategium, all rooms accessible on foot
1 primary gravity generator for the ship

Power on batteries without any generator or solar working is 5 days+.


Rotor and piston-free.