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Prospector: Base Ship (stock, updated jump drives)

I wanted a base ship that was heavy enough to provide decent refining and utility functions, but not have to ram all that weight into an asteroid or use external drilling ships. So I stuck an extending drilling arm on it!

The civilian purpose of this ship is obvious as the interior was made to be spacious and comfortable, but the exterior about utility. Clearly not a military ship but a fine investment for a mining exploration and survey team.

In addition, there was a little creation contest based on this concept which produced many variants. Details here:
http://forums.keenswh.com/threads/contest-from-concept-to-creation-june-prospector.7361441/

Capabilities:
6 fully upgraded refineries (with ore filtering options)
4 Large cargo tanks and several small ones
3 fully upgraded assemblers
6 arc furnaces
160m drilling boom with status display
large flight deck with welders and grinders, and ore drop-off.
self repair of drilling parts, large cargo, and main reactor
garage/airlock area
Solar array and o2 farming, parking in the sun makes it sustainable.
4 Jump drives.

No mods, 100% stock. Some scripts used:
Drillboom by the-phil:
http://steamproxy.net/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=461239300

Configurable Automatic LCD's by MMaster:
http://steamproxy.net/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=403921671

Updates:
-Fixed airlock doors. Script was busted in an update the day after I released the ship, I gutted it and used timers.
-4 Jump drives. The least utilized space became extremely well used!
-Added defenses
-Set up self projector and some control chairs
-Added the new vent switches to speed up airlock.