Take AIM between the stars

This is the primary collection of Akra Industry and Mining designs. Akra designs fit together to solve specific problems.

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General Ship Design Philosophy

1. Determine a ship's purpose, design the ship for that purpose. "Everything!" is not a purpose.
   
2. Determine the desired acceleration along each axis of the ship and the mass of the cargo the ship is designed to carry. Build the thrust to meet that acceleration when carrying cargo.
   
3. Stopping on-time is more important than accelerating quickly.
   
4. The Programmable Block is a truly unique feature of Space Engineers. Ships embrace the design decisions empowered by the Programmable Block, but still mostly work when on a Dedicated Server that doesn’t enable ingame scripts.
   
5. Ship designs should take into account the unique requirements of running on a Dedicated Server.
   
6. Design ships to be thruster safe when Thruster damage is enabled. However, sometimes a ship design just requires the possibility of cooking the landing pad.
   
7. A ship should have navigation lights.
   
8. A ship should be designed so that it can be projected from a Battery and Projector that become part of the ship (No external projector required).

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Akra ships utilize the following naming standard.
[Ship Series Name]
One or more words used to uniquely identify the series of ship.

[Ship Model/Variant Name]
An optional designator of a variant or model line based on a common ship design concept. These are usually variations of single ship model and may include structural changes or the addition of additional blocks.

[Gravity Environments]
D - Deep Space (0g)
O - Moon (0.25g)
M - Mars (0.8 g)
E - Earth like (1g)
P - Pertam (1.2g)

[Thrust Type]
H - Hydrogen
A - Atmospheric
I - Ion

[Ship Purpose]
Indicators of the ships primary purpose.

R - Bootstrap. This ship is designed for the unique requirements and limitations encountered when starting out with a respawn ship/survival pod and starting a new game.
B - Base ship/Mothership/Mobile base. This ship is designed to be a mobile base.
Mt - Tunnel Miner. A mining ship designed to fit into the tunnel excavated by the drills.
Ms - Surface Miner. A mining ship designed to mine exposed surface ore. The ship does not fit into the mined tunnel. Surface miners may use pistons to increase the range of reachable ore.
C - Cargo/Freighter. A ship designed primarily to move cargo.
W - Welding ship. A ship designed primarily as a welder.
G - Grinding ship. A ship designed primarily as a grinder.
H - Hybrid. This ship is designed primarily to fulfill multiple purposes.

["What it is"]
A couple words that briefly describe what the ship is.

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• Akra Manual for Planetary Survival: This guide provides detailed instructions on how to build the Akra - Staging Outpost (Model A) when all you have is a Respawn Pod, hand tools, and a dwindling Oxygen and Power supply.

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• Akra - Bootstrap Outpost (Model A)
  
• Akra - Staging Outpost (Model A)

Print Spurs

• Akra Print Spurs Collection

Large Grid Printers

• Akra - Bootstrap Printer Station (Model A) - Timer Block only printer for Official Space Engineers Servers.

Small Grid

• Akra - Sciuro (Model A) {RMt-O-H} - Bootstrap Tunnel Miner
  
• Akra - Sciuro (Model B) {RMt-P-H} - Pertam Gravity Bootstrap Tunnel Miner

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Mods were used to assist with the generation of the screenshots displayed. They are not required by any blueprints.