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Nomad O2 (stock, o2, survival, updated Oct '15)

This is a small base ship, meant to be a good "starter" ship which you should be able to get basically functional from scrapping the spawn ship if you build the right parts first. You will need to do some mining to get this fully built but overall should be quite doable on a multiplayer server without much trouble.

Once built it provides a good stepping stone to building larger things. It's basically a spawn ship that is nicer.

Thruster and reactor count is intentionally low, I usually have trouble sourcing material for these. Solar on the bottom for parking it in the sun, conserve uranium while away.

The design is very open, maximum convenience as the role of this ship is such that you will be entering and exiting often.

~120k triangles
~400k kg
-1 refinery
-2 assembler
-2 furnace
-2 large cargo
-1 small cargo
-2 computers (no scripts loaded)
-1 timer block

-Automatic drills
-Automatic stone ejection
-No mods

Change log:
3.18.15 - Some work on the paint.
4.24.15 - Added Oxygen farms.
5.6.15 - Added 2 cryo chambers.
- Removed O2 farm closest to drills.
- Automatic door opening in conjunction with air vent to conserve air.
- Projector updated, projects image of self for build/repair.
- Medical room is now conveyored.
5.8.15 - Tweaked interior to fit 4 effectiveness modules to refinery.
- Went down to 2 assemblers, 2nd one has 2 power reduction modules.
- Added exterior defenses.
- Updated blueprint on projector as well.
5.10.15- Fixed refinery conveyor error from previous update. whoops!
7.30.15- Added Jump Drive.
- Set up toolbars.
- Improved automatic doors using new air vent options.
- Addedcamera on the front for that wonderful zoom action.
10.31.15 - New doors, projectors, isolated air vent, rear dock

Notes:
Because of it's role as an early/starter base, here's my survival tip:

1. Use spawn ship to find a decent asteroid. Scrapping the spawn ship will get you functional, but you will be short on iron, and motors in particular because of the conveyor blocks. So try to find nickel. Or just a big glob of iron, whatever.

2. drop station block, set up projector, start laying down frame using just steel plates and construction components. ideally sourced from mining and/or peeling armor off the spawn ship.

3. once you have the floor and main components "placed" you will see where the important things are. Scrap the spawn ship, directly replacing those components on the Nomad. Start with the Reactor, Medical, Refinery, Assembler, small cargo, flight seat, Thrusters, gyro. Dump remaining resources from spawn ship into the Nomad. I like to build the drills then concentrate on conveyors and cargo. The conveyors between the cargo containers and refinery the most critical, then up to the drills. Moving ore by hand is an option if short on motors.

4. Should be a functional ship now, convert station to ship. There is an onboard projector you can switch to and delete that station block hanging out there.

The workstation and computers are low priority, I don't even have script loaded atm so they are basically just cosmetic for the time being. Rear conveyors to reactors not really so important, the stone ejectors are a matter of convenience. The outer skin / armor is obviously lowest priority. Really by this point you should have it figured out. :)