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(ACI) Taurus Light Transport Frigate (Vanilla)
   
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Type: Blueprint
Mod category: Exploration
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8 Oct, 2016 @ 3:02pm
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(ACI) Taurus Light Transport Frigate (Vanilla)

In 1 collection by k_medlock
Ares Combat Industries (ACI)
54 items
Description
ACI Taurus Class Light Transport Frigate, produced by Ares Combat Industries

As wars progressed Ares Combat Industries and the Republic of Orion were in dire need of a transport vessel that was able to bring troops from space to a planet’s surface. So basically the Republic of Orion needed a troop transport, but ACI knew that a ship only carrying troops would not be good enough so they constructed a ship that was able to carry light armored vehicles too. In conjunction to the making of the Taurus, ACI also created a fitting armored vehicle named “Spartan”.

The Taurus can fit 3 of these LAV’s or light assault vehicles in its loading bay and in addition to that the transport frigate is able to carry 8 elite soldiers in its cryo-pods and support one light scout drone, but ACI has not released any details about this drone yet. The Taurus Class Light Transport frigate marks the beginning of ACI’s Planetary Warfare Division. It is able to land on planets in order to deploy armor, troops and materials and can often take the role of a small operations headquarters. This ship is best kept safe within a larger strike group or fleet, because it does not feature durable armor.

Authors Note:

Before loading a Spartan into the Taurus Transport Frigate make sure that the vehicle’s wheelbase has been lowered, or else the top mounted turret will make it unable for the vehicle to enter the loading bay. I hope you guys enjoy them both!

Ship Details

Name: Taurus
Class: Light Transport Frigate
Mass: 2,537,886 kg (Atmospheric Lift Weight: ca. 1,500,000 kg)
Block Count: 3319
Length: 132.5 m
Height: 30 m
Width: 52.5 m
Area of Operation: All Environments
Thruster Acceleration Forward: 13.71 m/s/s
Thruster Acceleration Upward in 1g: 6.74 m/s/s

Weapons and Systems

8 Gatling Turrets
6 Interior turrets
1 Medical Bay
8 Cryo-Pods
6 Assemblers
2 Arc Furnaces
1 Refinery
8 Oxygen Generator
1 Remote Control
1 Jumpdrive
1 Gravity Generator

Special Features

Loading Bay with room for 3 Spartan LAV’s
Drone Bay Hangar
Cargo Repair System
Ares Combat Industries Decoy Technology (ACID)

Ares Combat Industries, “Built to Serve.”

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Scripts by MMaster, Whiplash141

Rating would be much appreciated! ;)
38 Comments
omni 8 Apr, 2023 @ 11:09am 
any plans on making a cargo rover to go with this
Kick@5$Kenny 30 Jan, 2018 @ 6:19am 
looking forward to it!
k_medlock  [author] 29 Jan, 2018 @ 9:44pm 
@KickAssKenny I'll see if I still have the drone thaz I originally wanted to publish. If not I'll make a new one for a new ship that would work with this one too.
Kick@5$Kenny 29 Jan, 2018 @ 7:45pm 
hey k_medlock, awesome work dood ur ships are awesome and you deserve alot of credit! Wanted to ask, are you still going to make the drone for this ship?
k_medlock  [author] 29 Oct, 2016 @ 3:11pm 
@TheSchniipp Thanks for your compliments!
To answer you questions i do build the ships hull first and try to get as many details in as possible. Then i do the interior and detail the exterior even more if needed. After that i usually paint the ship and setup all lcd's and airlocks and such. I mostly get my inspiration from myself and i just start building randomly.
SIDENOTE: You will find many empty ship hulls in my build world haha.
As for the inspiration part i would advise you to check deviant art or search for images on the internet.
Dummimin 29 Oct, 2016 @ 2:26pm 
How do you start to build a ship? Do you start with the interior or the hull? And where you get your design ideas? I mean your ship design is wonderful!
k_medlock  [author] 16 Oct, 2016 @ 11:13am 
Haha thanks!
Chasper 16 Oct, 2016 @ 11:12am 
You da real mvp
k_medlock  [author] 16 Oct, 2016 @ 11:09am 
I try to reply to every comment i can, especially if you have a problem or found a mistake with one of my builds. :)
Chasper 16 Oct, 2016 @ 11:05am 
@k_medlock Ah thanks! Btw you replied very fast, that doesn't happen very often!