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MCRN Donnager Class Dreadnought [Old]

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"The Donnager-class dreadnought is a class of modern Martian Congressional Republic Navy (MCRN) battleship.

Donnager-class battleships are almost 500 meters long, about the same size as a 130-story office building. Measuring 250,000 tons dry weight, pound-for-pound Donnager-class battleships are some of the largest and most capable ships in the Martian Congressional Republic Navy.

As the primary mainstay battleship classification in the MCRN, the Donnager-class serves multiple roles throughout the Sol System. At the time of the UN-MCR War, eight Donnager-class vessels existed in the Solar System, serving in a variety of roles including fleet command and coordination, battleship, force projection, and carrier of gunships and infantry."

This is my first building project with Space Engineers, and my attempt at recreating the MCRN Donnager from The Expanse at full 1:1 scale, with details and functions somewhat accurate to the show. Among its features are:

- operable hangar bay with 6 docking pads for smaller ships
- 2 large railgun turrets
- 6 forward guided torpedo tubes
- 6 forward small homing missile launchers
- 8 aft guided torpedo tubes
- 58 point defense cannons

The ship's interior can be accessed through the hangar. There are separate buttons for opening and closing the hangar doors, located on the exterior of the ship near the bottom of each door as shown here:



Interior:
Deck 11 - Mid and Forward Weapons Access
Deck 10 - Command Deck / CIC
Decks 1-6 - Hangar Bay
Deck 5 - Barracks
Deck 4 - Sick Bay
Deck S1 - Hangar Control
Deck S2 - Main Engineering
Deck S3 - Reactor Access

Hangar doors may also be operated from the hangar control room on deck S1.
The Command Deck is accessible on deck 10, with five control chairs. Use the upward facing control chair to be stay oriented with the direction of the ship's acceleration.

Control hotkey bars are as follows:
-Bar 1-
1. bow camera / laser designator view
2. on/off PDC array
3. forward torpedo volley fire (press once to run the firing sequence of six torpedoes, which will be rebuilt at the end of the sequence)
4. on/off forward missile pods
5. fire forward missile pods once
6. on/off port railgun turret rotor locks
7. on/off port railgun power
8. on/off starboard railgun turret rotor locks
9. on/off starboard railgun power

-Bar 2-
1. stern laser designator control
2. on/off aft torpedo launchers
3. fire aft torpedo launchers once

-Bar 3 (center control seat only)-
1. hangar door 2 open sequence
2. hangar door 2 close sequence
3. hangar door 1 open sequence
4. hangar door 1 close sequence


IMPORTANT NOTES-
By default, the ship is in Station Mode, so you'll need to convert to ship in order to take her for a spin.

The railguns are very large, and their rotors should be locked when the ship is under significant thrust.

This ship is massive. It is comprised of a main grid that sits right at the maximum shape limit allowed by the game engine, along with numerous subgrids. It was designed to be a faithful replica over great performance. It also utilizes (but DOES NOT REQUIRE) numerous mods. As the vanilla game's options improve, I will try to pare down the mod count.

Furthermore, this ship utilizes numerous scripts created by Whiplash141 (WHAM, LAMP, AI Turret Slaver, Radar), and I would like to thank him for his guidance on how to properly set up some of the weapons systems on here. Please check out his incredible work here:
https://steamproxy.net/workshop/filedetails/?id=663612012

Also, not at all required, but I highly recommend these:
https://steamproxy.net/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1300118006
https://steamproxy.net/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1289657379

This is my first SE building project. I welcome questions and suggestions in the comments below, or at the following links:
https://www.youtube.com/user/niconoire/featured?view_as=subscriber
https://twitter.com/MCRNShipyards
discord - Junktabot#6586