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Sveinn - Orbital Hydrogen Miner

The SVEINN Orbital Hydrogen Miner is an easy accessable Mining Vessel, optimized for orbital transfer. It enables its operator to travel to space and aquire resources that are unavailable on planets

V.M.E BASIC vessels are cheap, performance friendly ships, that were created for multiplayer-games with strict PCU-limits. They are fast and easy to build, full vanilla and don't require any DLCs, mods, scripts or subgrids.


The M.IS-BSC-08 provides a cockpit with an isolated environment, connected to an air-vent to harvest oxygen. Its thrusters are powered via a Hydrogen tank, which also fuels the Hydrogen engines.



Blocks: 239
Non-armor blocks: 98
PCU: 2,936
Triangles: 431,074
Grid mass: 28,496


Toolbar 1
1 - Tool: Drill
2 - Group: Connectors - Switch Lock
3 - Camera - View
4 - Group: Small Hydrogen Thrusters - Toggle on/off
5 - Large Hydrogen Thruster - Toggle on/off
6 - Large Hydrogen Thruster - Increase Thrust override
7 - Large Hydrogen Thruster - Decrease Thrust override
8 - Group: Lights - Toggle on/off
9 - Hydrogen Tank - Stockpile on/off

Toolbar 2
1 - Group: Conveyer Sorter - Toggle on/off
2 - Group: Ejector - Throw out on/off
3 - Ore Detector - Toggle on/off
4 - Connector - BTM - Switch Lock
5 - Connector - AFT - Switch Lock
6 - Group: Hydrogen Engines - Toggle on/off
7 - Battery - Toggle on/off
8 - Battery - Recharge on/off
9 - Group: Parachutes - Open/Closed

• Small profile
  Less than one large grid block in high and two in width including decent space to maneuver, guarantee hassle-free working in tight places and allow you to store the SVEINN in even the smallest hangers.
  
• Connected frame
  All functional parts of this vessel are connected directly to each other. You can leave out or grind down all armor, lights, lcds and other decorative elements in order to save even more PCU, without the ship falling apart or loosing crucial functions.
  
• Basic protection
  A set of light armor blocks protect the SVEINN against damage.
  
• Lots of space
  Two drills ans two medium cargo containers provide a good amount of space for ore. Additionally you can store personal items like tools and bottles in the cockpit.
  
• Battery powered
  This vessel is electricial-powered. Attach it to your homebase or mothership via connector to recharge you battery. Additionally you can reload the batteries on the fly by using the Hydrogen Engines.
  
• Preset Ejectors
  The SVEINN has a pair of Sorters connected to Ejectors which are preset to dispose Stone, allowing you to safe space for more valuable minerals.
  
• Oxygen harvest
  Despite not having an O2-tank, the SVEINN comes with a simple air-vent to harvest oxygen form outside and make toxic atmosphere breathable, as long as you remain in the cockpit.

Preparations
After you've successfully constructed the vessel, add some ice to its inventory and make sure, the O2/H2-generator is turned on. The generator should now start to process the ice for fuel. Keep putting ice into the ship's inventory and regulary check the fuel status from the cockpit. Keep in mind that there are Hydrogen-Engines installed on the ship, which will grab a good portion of the fuel for their own inventory. So take a look at the Hydrogen Tank itself from the Control-Menu. The tank should be filled to at least 10% before you actually turn on the thrusters.

Once you've generated enough Hydrogen, turn on the small thrusters (Toolbar 1, [4]) and navigate the ship to a connector on your base. Engage the lock and turn off the Thrusters again. You should have an established base, including renewable power supply, a generator to process ice and a hydrogen-tank to store fuel before seriously considering going to space for mining. If that's not the case, for whatever reason, you can still setup the vessel, by charging the batteries through the hydrogen-engines and process ice via the onboard-generator.

While you wait for the ship to be fueled up, produce a stack of canvas (at least 4, better more) and put them into the ships inventory. Find the Parachute Hatches in your inventory menu and move the Canvas there. This way you can doublecheck the not visual parts of the conveyer-network for incomplete or missing blocks.

Check the batteries and the tank. Once both are full, you're ready to go. If you do it right, you can bring the SVEINN to space and have enough hydrogen left, to do a mining-run and return home afterwards. However, you can prolong the orperation time by filling the generator and one of the cargo-containers with additional ice. You can fill up the second one too, but keep in mind that the ship will get quite heavy and ruin the fuel-efficency before you'll actually reach space. Also you want some free cargo space for mining and if you're not happen to sit on or next to an ice-lake, disposing ice is just a waste of valuable resources.

Takeoff
Make sure the Hydrogen-Engines are off and the batteries are set to 'auto'. Set the Large Thruster override to 100% while the Thrusters are still turned off (Toolbar 1, [6]). Turn your small Hydrogen Thrusters on (Toolbar 1, [4]), Make sure the Tank is not set to stockpile and disconnect the ship from your base.

Move to a save distance from your base (100m+) and create a GPS-Marker. Make sure the ships stands perfectly still and allign the SVEINN to the planet's horizontal plane. Press [SPACE] to move upwards. While accelerating, turn on the large Hydrogen Thruster (Toolbar 1, [5]) and deactivate the ship's dampeners [Z].

Release the spacebar. Depending on how much stuff you've put in the ship's inventory, the SVEINN will accelerate rather slow. Push [SPACE] again to provide additional uplift until the ship reaches ~90m/s. Now let the large Thruster do all the work. Keep the speed high, but below 100m/s. Use [6] and [7] to adapt the Thrusters override-settings. The higher you get, the easier the thruster will accelerate. So continue to decrease the override whenever possible since every further acceleration beyond 100m/s is wasting fuel.

Make sure the ship stays still during the whole ascend. The horizontal line will change as you go higher. Ignore that and do not tilt the ship in any direction. Around every 5000m, press spacebar and engage the dampeners for a few seconds to ensure, the ship is not drifting away.

Once you reach space, the horizontal plane and altitude will disapear from your hud and the natural gravity will show 0.0g. Congratulations, you've made it!
Deactivate the Large Hydrogen Thruster and set the the override back to 0%. Reengage the dampenders and let the small Thrusters bring the ship to a complete stop.

Before you move on to your desired asteroid, check the fuel status of your hydrogen-tank as well as your remaining ice. Also, create an additional GPS-marker at your current location. This will be your ENTRY-POINT to return back home!

Once you've looked into your fuel-status, you can move up to your chosen asteroid and get to work. Make further use of your dampeners to save fuel. Allign the ship to your target, accelerate and deactivate the dampeners at the same time. This way you will not have to constantly press the direction key to keep the ship at speed, therefore waste no hydrogen. Reactivate the dampeners to initiate breaking.