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MCRN Amarok Cruiser
   
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16 Dec, 2020 @ 6:25pm
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MCRN Amarok Cruiser

Description
MCRN Amarok Class Cruiser

Vanilla: Nope
Survival Ready: Yes
Planetary Capable: Yes, vertically.
DLC Blocks: Yes. For aesthetics, not structurally necessary.

Original (Vanilla) KDI Amarok

Length: 64 Blocks, 160 Meters.
Size: 7,747 Blocks. 56,358 PCU.
Dry Tonnage: 9,044 Tons.
Max Jump Distance: 2,764 Km.
Max Acceleration: ~34.6 m / s^2

Quick Note: I've found this ship and other ships with large conveyer systems and hydrogen thrust can encounter issues when initially pasted in. My current fix is to add a small hydro tank (and maybe another conveyer junction), let the tank fill up, then remove it and anything else I added. After that, things seem to work fine. No idea why it works that way.


Knightmare Defense Industries presents the MCRN Amarok Class Cruiser. The Amarok has served with distinction in KDI"s own forces, earning a reputation as one of the fastest warships on the market. With this in mind, the MCR has commissioned a specialized version for their own use. Changes include switching to Martian designed point defense cannons and torpedoes, as well as the addition of two large railgun turrets. The class is expected to see use in the ring space and colonies where it's speed will allow it to rapidly deploy to critic areas. The class is named for the Amarok of Inuit mythology, which would stalk and devour people foolish enough to hunt alone at night. While wolves usually hunt in packs, amaroks hunt alone.

The Amarok uses a complex Hydrogen-Ion Drive which produces 312 MN of force, making it the most powerful drive fitted to any KDI ship. Its Jump Drives are capable of a maximum jump distance of 2,764 KM. The ship carries 40 Martian Point Defense Cannons, with 18 Interior Turrets, 8 Torpedo and 4 Missile Launchers. Power is supplied by 2 Large Reactors with several Small Reactors and Batteries as backup. The ship's hull is mostly light armor, with a few layers of heavy armor at the front and around critical ship components, and a heavy armor frame running through the hull for structural integrity. The ship has a hangar, medical bay, basic refinery, assembler and survival kit. There are also parachutes at the front in case of emergency, but landing gears should be attached to the bottom of the ship if you intend to land on planets.

The ship is built with modded weapons, but is otherwise fully vanilla and survival ready, with an interior in the style of "The Expanse." I use a light changing script to switch around the interior light settings. Its an older script and I couldn't find the original creator. The script was updated by ColTeH for my use. I used some of Whiplash141's scripts on the ship, including their braking script for "flip and burn" situations, and a few of their mods for taking the screenshots. The mods I used to assist with the screenshots came recommended by Taidyr, who makes some fantastic content as well. I used Darth Biomech's Milky Way Skybox mod as well. Links below. I got inspiration for this ship from ships shown in The Expanse RPG book, I highly recommend The Expanse's books and show.

Whiplash141's Workshop

Taidyr's Workshop

Milky Way Skybox by Darth Biomech

Please feel free to modify the ship to fit your in game needs. Just be sure to give credit to the original creator.


Important Notes

There are some turret groups leftover from the vanilla version, where turrets were set up in groups for Whip's AI turret slaving script. That program block is disabled and can be removed if you so desire.

Whip's automatic door script is equipped but disabled. Enable if you want that.

The Thruster Heat Sink script is equipped, but currently broken as far as I can tell, so that program block is turned off as well.



Author's Notes
So Season 5 of The Expanse is awesome. I was thinking of putting this on the workshop, and with the new season coming around, I figured I may as well. This is basically a modded version of the original Amarok, well, the weapons are modded, everything else isn't. There are some gaps in places where I modified the hull, but those won't hurt performance. I added more thrust so despite the increased weight the ship is just as fast. I do feel like the number of pdc's is excessive, but tbh its fine for SE. It's not a replica after all. There was also a bit of lore I added in to loosely attach the ship to the expanse's universe. I don't want to go too in depth, but I think it's good for that to be there. Anyways, I hope you enjoy this ship.


If you have any questions, comments or feedback about the ship, please leave them in the comments below. I'm always looking to improve upon my work. If you enjoy the MCRN Amarok Class Cruiser, likes are greatly appreciated. Thank you for browsing this item. Safe Voyages! Papple.
22 Comments
Incognito 14 Jan, 2021 @ 11:37am 
Thank you very much and good luck!
Papple2  [author] 12 Jan, 2021 @ 5:09pm 
@Incognito That would be fine with me. Enjoy!
Incognito 12 Jan, 2021 @ 7:27am 
Hello, may we use and adjust your ships to use as our server NPCs? Of course, we will credit you, so players will know who is creator.
Papple2  [author] 23 Dec, 2020 @ 6:29pm 
Yes, it was another martian frigate iirc. Also yes, I am aware of the concept art. Thank you.
Frog 23 Dec, 2020 @ 6:10pm 
They released the concept art from Alcon if that helps.
Frog 23 Dec, 2020 @ 6:10pm 
I think its the new pella from the books except in the books it was just another class of the Rocinante.
Papple2  [author] 23 Dec, 2020 @ 5:23pm 
I would certainly like to. Not sure how well it'll fit in the game though, and it might be a while if I do try.
Frog 23 Dec, 2020 @ 9:19am 
Do you think you'll make the new expanse ship from episode 4? It looks like the raptor from the books.
Papple2  [author] 18 Dec, 2020 @ 1:13pm 
I'm not too great at industrial ships, and I prefer to build warships. The Apollo is the closest I came, it's more a cargo ship though. The Pegasus is a vertical build.
Locomotor79 18 Dec, 2020 @ 12:55pm 
the Unn Pegasus is also vertical build right