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PHI Nideggen-Class Frigate (Retrofit)

STANDARD TYPE LARGE GRID
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Vanilla + DLC
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Description:

An improved version of the original Nideggen-Class Frigate, which was retrofitted as part of Project CAT, the latest ground forces initiative in PHI.
Its overall parameters have remained relatively the same, but it has been modernized in order to better fullfill its role within PHI fleets.
The Nideggen was made as a multipurpose frigate, being capable of extended flight on all known planets, as well as carrying ground vehicles to and from said planets.
The refit has increased its carrying capacity and improved its armaments, while only slightly lowering its mobility.
This allows the retrofitted Nideggen-Class to be an adequate alternative to the more recent Gaede-Class frigates, which themselves were based off of the Nideggen.

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Features:

• Survival Ready: conveyors are all connected, and the ship has starting fuel and equipment.
  
• 6x3x2 hangar for a single ground vehicle.
  
• Elevator for lowering vehicles to a planet's surface.
  
• Elevator can serve as an extra 6x3x2 hangar for a single ground vehicle.
  
• Eight gatling turrets, two missile turrets and ten interior turrets.
  
• 800m turret radar.
  
• Uses a mix of hydrogen, atmospheric and ion thrusters, and has thrusters hidden inside the hull without the need to turn thruster damage off.
  
• Limited production capacity: Three basic assemblers and two basic refineries.
  
• Two cryo pods for crewmembers, and a further eight beds for passengers in the hangar.
  
• Jump distance of around 1100 km (unloaded).
  
• Cleaned up terminal and hotbars.

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Specifications:

• Blocks - Main Grid: 1,273
  
• Blocks - With Subgrids: 1,379
  
• PCU - Main Grid: 14,462
  
• PCU - With Subgrids: 15,512
  
• Mass - Unloaded: 2,206,973 kg
  
• Airtight: Hangar and Bridge are, the rest is not. No airlocks are present.

Dimensions:

• Length: 103.75 Meters.
  
• Width: 55 Meters.
  
• Height: 22.5 Meters.

Usage:

• Role: Multipurpose, with a focus on vehicle transport and anti-air.
  
• Area of Operation: Everywhere.

Other:

• When leaving a planet, it is important to keep accelerating even if your speed starts to drop a bit. The Nideggen will pull through!
  
• As with the Gaede and the original Nideggen, it is important to have the elevator lowered before combat in order to prevent Clang from taking hold of the ship.
  
• Similarly, don't raise the elevator until ALL deformation has been repaired, lest you want Clang to take hold anyways.
  
• When building the elevator, keep the area around the merge blocks clear so merging will go easier. The elevator was made specifically to be easy to build, and as such doesn't contain any important blocks.

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Controls:

Toolbar 1:
1: Elevator Up/Down.
2: Elevator Camera view.
3: Forward Camera view.
4: ALL Turrets On/Off.
5: Port Missile Turret control.
6: Starboard Missile Turret control.
7: Gravity Alignment On/Off
8: Parachutes Open/Closed.
9: Jump.

Toolbar 2: Docking and energy management.
Toolbar 3: Cameras.

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Credits:

Scripts used:

• Whip's Gravity Alignment Script (Github)[github.com]
  
• Whip's Auto Door and Airlock Script
  
• Whip's SIMPL Script
  
• Whip's Turret Based Radar
  
• Automatic LCD's 2

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Author's Notes:
Welp, here it is, a rebuild of the very first ship I posted under the PHI banner.
This one stays faithful to the original design while mostly improving on it, unlike the Gaede, which was basically a complete redesign of this ship.
Funnily enough, this one actually needed less changes to be capable of carrying the new ground vehicles, it just looked a bit outdated.