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Hiigaran Battle Cruiser R.E.A.R.M.- HomeWorld 2

This is a modified version of the Hiigaran Battle Cruiser from the popular R.E.A.R.M. mod for the game HomeWorld 2. Built to roughly half scale based on available data.


Specification:

100 million kgs
120,000 blocks
602.5m long

Uses 2 Mods:

MexPex Warfare Industries weapons mod-pack: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=970804258

Cython's Energy Shields: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=484504816

You will need to subscribe to these mods and have them active in the world settings before pasting the ship into your world or trying to weld the blueprint from a projection.


Features:

Reactor Room with x24 large reactors.
12x Jump Drives
2x Medical Bays with x16 cryo pods
12x Oxygen Generators +18x Oxygen Tanks
6x Refineries + 12 Arc Furnaces & 12 Assemblers
16x Large Cargo Containers
16x Hydrogen Tanks
17x Interior Turrets in easy to find locations ( 2 per room + 1 in Control Room + 4 in the corridors)
2x Ore Detectors
2x Spot Lights
Crawl Spaces for easy maintenance of Conveyor system and Thruster bays
Well lit rooms and hallways
3x Gravity generators
Battery Room for emergency power
Faithful HangerBay lights- can be toggled on and off to avoid going blind.



Special Features:

Enormous Battle Cruiser is enormous, it comes complete with six Mk2 Battle Cannons & two Coil Guns for ship to ship combat and orbital bombardment, along with four Gatling turrets for anti-fighter cover. Also has four Shield Generators to provide additional protection and durability to the already thick hull armour.


Summary:


I was never really happy with vanilla large turrets, and actual vanilla turrets are laughably tiny- I could improve the existing ones but it's difficult to have 2 axis rotation on the 'barrels' and maintain a small profile. Therefore, I have commited herasy and added a couple carefully selected mods- a very popular shield mod to give the hull a bit more protection & the MWI weapons modpack that replaces the vanilla turrets with MK2 Battle Cannons and Coil guns for a more realistic Battle Cruiser experience.


The ship was built to be as accurate as possible to the original design whilst also incorporating elements of the R.E.A.R.M. redesign, this ship dwarfs most others whilst being fully functional and capable of defending a fleet from most attacks. There is room for three small support fighters in the main hanger- alternatively resource gatherers and repair/salvage ships could be equiped.

Designed for upto a nine-man crew, although three to four is fine usually- a one man crew will struggle to switch between piloting and operating the weapons if needed so let the ships AI handle shooting while you concentrate on flying...

Acceleration isn't too bad, roll rate and turning are very good thanks to the huge number of Gyroscopes. Light armour was used throughout most of the ship to save weight, however, the hull is extremely thick in most areas and heavy armour protects the Control Room, this ship can withstand most attacks without too many issues- small fighters can be deployed to disable any powerful weapons on attacking ships, leaving the Turrets on the Battle Cruiser to do the rest of the work.

As a side note, the number of Gyros was reduced and the number of Ion thrusters increased- the ship still handles well for its size but can accelerate and decelerate much faster now.

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Don't forget to check out the rest of my HomeWorld ships on the workshop, I have a Collection which is updated regularly: https://steamcommunity.com/workshop/filedetails/?id=1818498339