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CSS Falka Commercial Freighter
   
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15 Mar, 2023 @ 8:03am
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CSS Falka Commercial Freighter

Description
LORE

Commercial Space Sectors Inc. delivers and carries your precious daily space cargo from Jupiter to Mars!

CSS had been in decline since the cargo lanes became a bit shady in the recent decade. The weaponization of logistical fleets was long advised by CSS, but despite their best effort, Trade Council delayed the resolution. This came in handy for other corporations to deploy some bigger fleets to break the monopoly of CSS reigned, whether the Council did this with this in mind "They're doing it knowing damn well what they are damaging" phrased the Head Chairman of Commercial Space Sectors Incorporation, Foltest Vassermiller.

CSS withdrew its influence on the weaponization of logistical fleets, Vassermiller knew other corporations don't have as much volume as their fleet so he invested in something different, in order to gain that monopoly Trade Council broke.
CSS redirected its efforts to local shipyard productions where it had the most authority on job availability in order to gain loyalty where its center of operations was located and cut the ship production contracts that cost them a fortune. As expected young local shipyards were merely a fracture of what they had with contractors in terms of tonnage of ships, Vassermiller saw this as an opportunity to focus on efforts to his project of "New Horizons", this project relied on smaller freighter crafts produced in local shipyards and discounted to local pilots to buy these crafts and essentially be a part-time officer on the field to deliver cargo's in the name of CSS and become a ship owner.

The first designed ship for this project was the second iteration of Falka. Falka was the jack of all trades for a courier it was vastly faster than most freighters on her scale, very good amount of cargo capacity, and she sipped her fuel on rare occasions. Everything a broke courier wants, not to mention her racing-like paint job to lay low from authorities and plenty of space to smuggle refugees. She was a brilliant ship to fly for the first time above the atmosphere.

This project skyrocketed and saved an insane amount of work on the shoulders of the main CSS flotillas. These bigger fleets mostly stayed docked on stations except for big contracts while New Horizons worked like a clock, since the CSS denied the weaponization of logistical fleets resolution, their competitors were hardly surviving the ongoing piracy and raid on cargo lanes, CSS secured their place on stars with New Horizons

IT USES ONE SCRIPT

Whip's subgrid thruster manager script is needed in order to fly this ship make sure scripts are on at your world
https://steamproxy.net/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=757123653

The shipyard used for photo shots isn't mine sadly, that beautiful station is made by Welch go get some, people. You're not paying for it after all.
https://steamproxy.net/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2898100854

VANILLA VERSION

https://steamproxy.net/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2950531124

Specs:
- 5 Medium Cargo Containers
- 19 Batteries
- 6 Hydro tanks 4 H2 Generators
- 1 Reactor
- 56 meters (give or take)
- Insane amount of subgrids but it is suprisingly stable other than clang noises every now and then
- It should be survival ready if you have the balls to build it in survival tho it can be possible with the subgrid projector mod.

Gears and Ramp looks pathetic I know I'm no good with that kind of moving parts so take it or leave it

532,074 Dry mass
29.235 PCU
19.913 Blocks
28 Comments
Mitthrawn  [author] 22 Mar, 2023 @ 3:57am 
@Dots Vanilla version is added to the description hope that version gives a hand for your use cases
Dots 22 Mar, 2023 @ 2:27am 
I would love to. Thanks.
Mitthrawn  [author] 21 Mar, 2023 @ 5:26pm 
thank you very much, they took time
John Shepard 21 Mar, 2023 @ 3:32pm 
Amazing stuff. Fantastic creation; the curves on the top hull and flanks of the ship are just sublime.
Mitthrawn  [author] 21 Mar, 2023 @ 9:16am 
Small grids are never meant to be this big so it is impractical out of the window. But it is very fun to challenge yourself with small grids, What really sells this build is level of detail and having the said LOD without gigantic sizes. Most of these are gone with large grid builds, I can design this in LG and have some small grid subgrids along with it tho it won't look as good as this. I can do a vanilla version. I'm long retired from large grids because of them being end up as either slightly more shaped than brick or having an actual shape but resulting with gigantic sizes. Let me know if you want this craft to be more friendly towards the use cases you've mentioned.
Dots 21 Mar, 2023 @ 5:54am 
I really love the design and I don't mind adding it to my personal save game but if I go and play online some server owners outright refuse to add or change their mods list. I don't mind if its slightly longer/bigger. Perhaps a large grid version with this design would be up next? Maybe less subgrids and less pcu will be the result?
Mitthrawn  [author] 21 Mar, 2023 @ 5:20am 
@Dots biggest problem is the gyroscopes and engines, it can be converted to vanilla with ease but you're gonna have couple of problems on top of the ones it suffers, tho all the mods are there to make this thing more enjoyable to fly, it can fly fine with vanilla h2 thrusters but it will be slow as hell, you can make gyroscope walls inside the hollow hull (do not put gyros on subgrids) gas storage is just there for extra volume sg expansion is nice to have also

I can do it vanilla but can't promise it will be more flyable than this
Dots 21 Mar, 2023 @ 3:29am 
is there any way to have it made vanilla just so i can use it in multiplayer servers that don't have these mods?
Mitthrawn  [author] 20 Mar, 2023 @ 11:26am 
@DraRex368 almost entire outer hull is subgrid, other than that angled thrusters are all subrids, gears, gear doors, boarding ramp are all subgrids
DraRex368 20 Mar, 2023 @ 10:17am 
One thing, is the ship has any subgrids?