Co-113A Mothership

[Frozen_Heart]

Co-113A Mothership

Download: http://bit.ly/2a6glB9

 

It has been a while but after nearly a year long break I've finally got round to designing a new multipurpose mothership. I was surprised at how quickly this one came together; though it only took a few hours to build and test the Co-113 worked perfectly from the get go.

dV (m/s)	Payload (Tons)
4552	0
4000	11
3000	41
2000	100
1000	263

The Co-113 is designed as a single stage mothership capable of performing a multitude of missions to any planet in the system with the right attachments, its 6 LV-N engines giving it a long range while still packing a good TWR so you don't have to worry about sitting around for those long burns. Stock it packs over 4.5km/s of dV which is more than enough for most of the closer planets in the system. Compared to many previous ships it has a low part count too, at 250 exactly so it should perform acceptably on even lower end PCs.

In addition to its usual tricks, the Co-113 is my first ship to integrate a small resource converter for longer trips. A dropship on one of the hard points to gather ore allows you to fly pretty much forever as long as you can bring back a decent amount. For more heavy duty mining larger tanks and a full size converter can always be attached for refuelling those orbital depots.

If you're patient enough to attach ion engines and their fuel, the Co-113 can support trips as far out as Eeloo or Moho, carrying a lander and extra habitation to make the journey more comfy. In this configuration the tanks contain over 14k m/s of dV in exchange for a rather painful TWR of 0.04.

And of course if you really fancy you can take the Co-113 back to its roots and arm it with weapons and fighters! Four SRB rockets are effective vs capital ships while smaller I beam rockets deal with the fighters and unarmoured craft.

Edited July 30, 2016 by Frozen_Heart

[kiwi1960]

wow..... great going. Another dude I will have to keep my eye on from now on.

 

read that to mean .... "watch your back or I'll steal all your ideas!"

 

[ScriptKitt3h]

Looks absolutely brilliant. However, the link for the download appears to not work for me.

[Frozen_Heart]

3 minutes ago, ScriptKitt3h said:

Looks absolutely brilliant. However, the link for the download appears to not work for me.

Hmm that's odd. Working for me even when not logged in to dropbox. What happens when you click it?

[ScriptKitt3h]

3 minutes ago, Frozen_Heart said:

Hmm that's odd. Working for me even when not logged in to dropbox. What happens when you click it?

Takes me into Dropbox, and then after seemingly trying to open a Dropbox folder/page called "Dropbox/KSP", it has an error message pop up saying " The folder ‘/KSP’ doesn’t exist. ", redirecting me to my homepage in Dropbox (when I'm logged in). If I open the link in a browser session where I'm not logged into Dropbox, it instead gives me an impassable prompt to login.

It actually is a bit strange for Dropbox to act up, since I've been hosting my releases of craft from it and had no issues AFAIK.

Edited July 30, 2016 by ScriptKitt3h

[Frozen_Heart]

Hopefully working now.

[Spartwo]

That ion looks ridiculous.

Edited July 30, 2016 by Spartwo

[kiwi1960]

works for me.

[Frozen_Heart]

10 hours ago, Spartwo said:

That ion looks ridiculous.

Agreed, but hey I needed to power ions out that far somehow!