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The Rake
Inspired by a ship called "The Brick", for the aerodynamic profile. This one act as an interstellar rake, able to reach 300 km/s, while flying non stop from Nauvis to Aquilo, it does need to slow down to go past this, this is handled by an automatic speed control detecting such moment in case i send it over there by mistake, it can go past the solar system and is able to make its own repair packs from asteroids chunks, because that is helpful sometimes.

Made entirely of "normal" quality it does consume its 400 MW and the accumulators are actually necessary and no jokes or fillings.

It can fly with an efficiency of 100% on the thrusters but in such case and really almost always it will be forced to dump some carbon if flying around Aquilo or past there, because then it consume so few for fuel that sulfur for rockets risk being a shortage. Given the amount of space junk that can be processed by the rake though, it is a minor concern.

This version has 55 thrusters, weights 1595 tons for 5.6 GN , with a handle in the middle, for better grip, or attaching any module in the back.
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"Better grip" LMAO

Nice design!

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Can you post blueprints?

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The rake blueprint :

Disclaimer: make sure your bonuses match those in red boxes or i'm not responsible for broken rake. ( also more notes in following post sorry )


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(Those didn't fit in previous post)

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Notes : There are 55 lasers and 19 railguns, and no solar pannel included, the fusion reactor has no fluoroketone when pasting the blueprint which doesn't fit the uncharted area by default. So one has to copy paste the blueprint twice, while shift clicking or using a legendary hub. Then add around 40 - 50 pannels on the handle/tail of the rake ( expand as needed temporarily ) , just to get enough power to unbarrel some fluoroketone and get some fusion cell in the reactor. And then the assembly that unbarrel the fluoroketone need to be removed and the blueprint finished. Some cargobays near the center can be removed for such initalization.

If not using a legendary hub, one has to connect the empty constant combinator, the hub, and the inserter under it with a red wire and tick all the boxes on the platform

It will still take forever for it to be ready outside editor but there is simple mechanism to dump asteroid chunk that would end up in the hub back onto the main belt for chunks, and it is recommended to use to help the ship get ready.

This is a version with some unused combinators near the pumps, but it's still there that the speed Limit ( signal L ) is to be set in the 2 constant combinators that have logistic group explaining their purpose. By default one is at 140 km/s or half speed , can be changed to 500 or 9000 or more with no risk, and the other speed is the safety speed , 40 km/s which the ship adopt when needed, it can be set higher for taking risks :)

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This is possibly the worst thing I've built in this game, but I love it even more because of that.
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I made it as an industrial scale Space Stuff Production Platform. At the moment, it's sitting above Fulgora, shipping down an absurd amount of ice to turn into water. Running around the outside is a giant belt. The inner side is dedicated to ammo for the turrets, and the outer side is a sushi belt of various asteroid chunks. I have combinators set up to read the amount of each individual chunk on the belts, and if one type goes over a specified amount, it gets removed from the collectors' filters. It also takes the chunk with the lowest number, and turns on the recycling recipes for the other two chunk types. The crushers are constantly running, but their outputs are only inserted into the hub when the stored ice/carbon/ore is below a certain number.

It's extremely ugly, even more inefficient, and barely functions. I do not care, it is my baby and I love it dearly. I should probably add another furnace or two though.

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