C.S.S Palestar II

Price: 8500 mk || Tier 2

The Palestar II is the upgraded variant of the scout class vessel produced by Shi Jie Shipyards. A 3rd floor has been added to the frame to house the expanded ballasts, freeing more space in the upper two floors and giving it excellent ascent/descent speed. It's armament of dual Coil Guns, and Discharge Coils have been augmented by the addition of a decoy tube and small drone. Additionaly a 2nd airlock was added to the bottom of the sub, it can be used as a moon pool during salvage operations.

Features:

• Backup Power Batteries Powers the coilguns, ballast, engines, navigation terminal, oxygen generator, and most of the ship's interior lights. Turned on from navigation terminal

• Moon Pool The lower airlock can be turned into a moon pool. Moon pool functionality can be activated and deactivated using the button beside the lower airlock, or the button beside the navigation console. In the event of excessive flooding in the airlock, or reactor shutdown the moon pool will automatically deactivate.

• Live Map There is a live motion/flooding map in the middle of the ship. The map tracks motion throughout the ship (except ballasts) and shows if rooms have water in them as well (blue lights). The edges of the map will light up if something is in close proximity to the ship's exterior in that area.

• Additional Turret Hard Point There is a hard point to support a 3rd turret on the upper rear of the ship

• Drainage System Can be toggled from the navigation terminal (Does not drain engine room, magazine or top floors)

• Discharge Coils Mounted on the top and bottom of the sub to dislodge unwanted passengers, activated from the navigation terminal.

• Exterior Camera Can be viwed from the navigation terminal.

• Exterior Lights Toggle Exterior lights can be turned off/on with a button on the top of the navigation terminal. Additionally the coil gun lights can also be turned off with a button situated between their periscopes.

• Machine Shop Located next to the cargo room, the ship has a small machine shop to allow deconstruction and fabrication of items.

• Decoy Station Located in the Armory, the ship is loaded with 2 decoys that can be dropped to lure creatures away from the sub.

• Powered Docking The sub receives power from the primary docking port. When docked to stations the reactor can be shutdown to conserve fuel. Systems that are powered from the docking port are: Batteries, oxygen generator, fabricator/deconstructor, rear access shaft pumps, and some of the lights.

• Additional status monitor in the engine room

There is a small drone that comes with the sub

FI-8 Gamma Drone The FI-8 Gamma drone is good for doing recon of small spaces before sending a dive team. Can also be used to bring supplies to dive teams that have gone far from the sub through a tight space. It's small frame and flimsy armor make it ill suited for combat, but the coil gun mounted on the top can be used to great effect while attached to the parent sub. The Drone's navigation terminal has a button that will let you switch the periscope between the turret on the top, and the search light on the bottom right of the drone.

This is the upgraded version of my entry level sub the Palestar. I designed this to be a better long term option for single player campaigns. I priced the sub so that it would be easy to jump into early if desired. It is also good for long term campaigns with a small group of people (2-3).

Hopefully you will enjoy it as much as I do! Please post any issues you run into and I'll try and get it fixed asap!