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Blueprint: Capital Vessel
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20 Nov, 2016 @ 8:24pm
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GTC-Leviathan (Freespace)

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I am looking for feedback on the next step - I am considering taking requests for ships from the Freespace universe

Added v2 WIP screenshots


Early in the Great War, Han-Ronald engineers designed and built the Leviathan class of cruisers. The Leviathan is much heavier armed and armored than the Fenris, but also much slower and less maneuverable. Leviathan cruisers are used to guard critical installations, such as permanent jump nodes, deep-space factories, and gas-mining operations, where firepower is king and speed is of little importance. They're also well-suited to escorting slow-moving freighters or transports. The Fenris is good for fast-moving operations, but when you need some muscle, call in a Leviathan.

A scaled down Leviathan class cruiser from Freespace (sitting at 126m in length, half the 252m spec).

The central hangar is set to 10x5 door and the lower hangar is using 9x5 - enough to carry 2-8 SVs depending on your configurations.

The bridge area is unfinished.

Most of the interior is complete (but untextured) but just about every necessity is covered:

79 grow plots is excessive for single player, but it is there to grow everything you may need and want.
16 advanced constructors are placed in areas tailored to specific functions (Fuel, Ammo, components/ingots).
Bathrooms

I will also add that nearly the entire ship has 2 layers of armored steel hull and a set of RCS and thruster assigned to a "combat mode" for increased speed and handling.

The Leviathan is not balanced at its center - DO NOT land it on a planet!
It will fall on its rear if you do so
7 Comments
Rabid 11 Jan, 2018 @ 12:18pm 
Blue Planet mod page (ez download, mod launcher, etc. Potentially the best Freespace story ever, essentially a fan made Freespace 3 with voice acting and all the trimmings. Definitely worth playing today, graphics are greatly improved and again, the story. :)
Rabid 11 Jan, 2018 @ 12:14pm 
Sorry, in the video that was just a Karuna vs. a Vanilla Deimos corvette.
Heres a still image, the module just past the engines moves like the Freespace 1 Terran Science ship (asimov?)
https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/starships/images/6/61/Karuna.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20091031134618

https://i.pinimg.com/736x/da/60/ec/da60ec45edfdaddd7f68ae580d0e3240.jpg
{5LINE}Cows with Guns  [author] 10 Jan, 2018 @ 5:03pm 
@Rabid

That video was incredibly difficult to view with everything being dark... that and I can't tell which one was the Karuna.

I have not played any Freespace 2 community created campaigns or mods aside from the vanilla items (Thanks GOG!).

If you can provide direct link(s) to pictures or schematics I can probably eyeball it.
Rabid 3 Nov, 2017 @ 1:27pm 
Build the UEFg Karuna, from the "Blue Planet" mod series
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Sm84gVrOWQ
(ingame footage of the ship, many still-frame pics exist as well)
Evasong 10 Feb, 2017 @ 11:44pm 
Make a Orion class Destoryer next man good job big fan of freespace game i made a leviathan cruiser myself but for space engineers. also i dont beleive in glass for the front of the leviathan its ment to be all steel hull pretty much :>
{5LINE}Cows with Guns  [author] 5 Dec, 2016 @ 12:25am 
Looking for feedback if anyone cares - otherwise I am looking at a major update and changes to balance this thing.
{5LINE}Cows with Guns  [author] 4 Dec, 2016 @ 12:38am 
If you want a smaller but perfectly balanced version that can land on a planet, try this
http://steamproxy.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=802936628