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Type: Blueprint
Mod category: Exploration
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Blockade Runner

In 1 collection by parkasever
Second generation
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Description
"The heavily armored spearhead consisted of thirty-two flat, sluggish barges bristling with missile and machinegun turrets. With their long barrels sticking out from the stern, they resembled a band of metal hedgehogs. They were followed by a large force of light bathyscaphes, equipped with nimble hydrogen thrusters, and finally a small force of stripped down, heavily-armed fighters of the third squadron.”

from the novel: “Janitors of the Late Space Age”




Blockade Runner is a tough little transporter. While it was originally built as an armored smuggler, this compact ship can be used for head-on assault or as a flak escort for capital ships. Even without a pilot it can serve as a good sentry.

To give it an edge in combat, it presents an extremely small target and it can deploy decoys. It's coated in multilayered heavy armor with four backup gyro and power systems scattered throughout the hull, so it can move out of danger even after a critical hit. And of course, it can deal a lot of damage in all directions with a total of 12 turrets!

Blockade Runner uses ion propulsion but it is also equipped with strong, tactical hydrogen thrusters. Since the fuel is limited for a ship this heavy, it is meant to be used only in combat.

Best of all – it has two large cargo modules, and even with all the ammo it can gobble up, there is still plenty of room if you need something transported through an enemy territory.



Hey, I’ve written a science fiction novel titled: "Janitors of the Late Space Age" inspired by Space Engineers. This here is a Ceran barge I’ve recreated. If you are looking for something to read - you can get it from Amazon as an electronic book or paperback.

www.amazon.com/Janitors-Late-Space-Age-Engineers-ebook/dp/B072RJKXNX/

18 Comments
Mackten 27 Dec, 2022 @ 4:02pm 
I put a drone script with these from another drone i was having issues with having weapons fire.....This thing fires all of them and is ruthless as hell....Im having a great time testing them out in swarms.Idk if theres any really any tweaks i could do aside from taking out the cockpit
Somethinglikemyfavourites 1 Mar, 2019 @ 8:45pm 
Nicely done! You've managed to do what the Tantive IV could never do - Run Blockades!
PatrioticLoyal 28 Dec, 2018 @ 9:14am 
fuck yeah man
parkasever  [author] 29 Jul, 2018 @ 7:29pm 
@sdf1666 - I really appreciate the feedback from your tests! Thank you!
Aether 29 Jul, 2018 @ 7:19pm 
XD
sdf1666 29 Jul, 2018 @ 7:03pm 
I used one of these in one of the few pvp scenarios that went right.
I caught some enemy vuice chat: "why are our turrets shooting at empty space instead of the enemy ship?" XD
I love all your ships!
parkasever  [author] 8 Aug, 2017 @ 4:33pm 
@Drachenschweif / I wish! But your English seems good enough, though.
Drachenschweif 8 Aug, 2017 @ 11:27am 
nice design ^^

does your book by any chance have a german translation?
JCapt 24 Jul, 2017 @ 11:11am 
Good work! Nice design, presentation and description.
Scya 9 Jul, 2017 @ 2:55am 
"Not the firepower you need...
... but the firepower you deserve! I like this! x)