General
This ship is another gutting and refitting of someone else's exterior hull, though this time there are slightly more dramatic changes in external appearance to accommodate new systems. That said, it remains mostly the same, especially, again, from the upper or front sides.Features
The Dragon Industries version of the Anaconda boasts:- A class 8 Frame Shift Drive
- Engineered Thrusters
- 24 maximum-size Cargo Racks and more than a dozen smaller ones
- An 8-bin refinery (14 if you use my Expanded Ore Processing mod)
- Greatly improved life support modules
- A more balanced reactor core
- Better power management
- All hardpoints filled with turrets (and then some)
- Retractable landing gear
- 8 Forward-facing dumbfire missile racks
- A class-7 ship-launched fighter bay
- Twinned G5 reinforced biweave shields with several HD boosters
- Blast doors to protect windows
- Far more advanced ship automation
- A large hydrogen storage bay
- Multiple access airlocks
- Three cargo hatches
- A medical bay
- Much more
Taken out of Elite-speak, this version of the ship has hugely better handling, much more like a 'real' Anaconda (compared with my G5-engineered one ingame), and has far better performance in all respects - storage, processing, defence, and more - due to much more efficient use of internal space and a much more carefully-designed internal infrastructure that makes maximum use of conveyors and functional blocks. It also has features completely absent from the original, such as a hydrogen thrust launch system, ship hangar, retractable landing gear, and oxygen support.
It uses light armor instead of heavy, but that is simple to convert. Do note that doing so will triple the ship mass and consequently dramatically reduce handling quality and jump range.
Should you wish to do so, you can also easily replace the two turrets on the underside near the hangar, (where the 4A hardpoint slot is on the E:D Anaconda) with some other weapon, such as a modded gun, a torpedo launcher, or some other contraption.
This ship comes with a partial gravity drive - it has artificial mass blocks for use in an external gravity field, allowing it to be rapidly accelerated by a dedicated structure.
The anaconda in my jump gate.
This ship, much like its E:D counterpart, functions wonderfully in a variety of roles, ranging from cargo/gas hauler to mobile base to gunship to long-range transport.
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External views.
Rear entry hall and med bay.
Main bridge.
Refinery room.
Upper cargo access deck.
One reactor room.
Rear cargo access room.
Hangar.
Battery room.
Looking into the assembly room from the bridge access hall.
Jump drive hall.
Observation bay cockpit.
Gas storage deck.
Control room behind the main bridge.
Mods
This ship does use two mods, but both are entirely optional; neither is going to break the ship or any core functionality if not installed.- My Expanded Ore Processing Mod; if you paste the ship without the mod, you will only lose the specialized refineries in two rooms (called "Special" in the ship), and will have two additional empty spaces you can use for whatever you please, including cargo access, a cryo bay, or some other modded item. Even leaving these empty will not break anything; you will just have an empty room with conveyor access.
- Energy Shields. Without this, you will not have a shield module on the Anaconda. There will be two small (2x2x4) holes on the underside of the ship, on either side of the connector, where the shield generators were. Simply fill those in with armor or something else to avoid having an air leak in the hangar.
Credits
Original hull by Eliseu do BrasilE:D Radar script by Whiplash
Power Graph script by Remaarn
Infograph script modified from original, originally by by SwiftyTheFox
Blueprint Info
Grid Size
LargeBlock Count
8032Estimated Volume
31x17x76Block Groups
- Air Vents
- Assemblers
- Batteries
- Cargo Displays
- Exterior Turrets
- Gatlings
- Global Displays
- GravGens
- Gravity Drive
- Gyros
- H2 Tanks
- H2 Thrusters
- Hangar Beam
- Hangar Door
- Interior Lights
- Interior Turrets
- Landing Gear Pistons
- Lights Outside Blue
- Lights Outside Bright Orange
- Lights Outside Orange
- Lights outside Lightblue
- Missiles
- O2 Displays
- O2 Gens
- O2 Lights
- O2 Tanks
- Original Lights
- Reactors
- Rear Connector Pistons
- Refineries
- Rocket Launchers
- Shields
- Turrets
- Window Covers
Subgrid Count
6Estimated Block Breakdown
| Block Type | Count |
|---|---|
| AirVent | 33 |
| AirtightHangarDoor | 21 |
| Armor Block | 2955 |
| Armor Corner | 100 |
| Armor Corner 2 Base | 156 |
| Armor Corner 2 Tip | 156 |
| Armor Corner Inv | 82 |
| Armor Inv Corner 2 Base | 122 |
| Armor Inv Corner 2 Tip | 130 |
| Armor Slope | 827 |
| Armor Slope 2 Base | 149 |
| Armor Slope 2 Tip | 131 |
| Assembler | 6 |
| Battery Block | 14 |
| Beacon | 1 |
| Button Panel | 4 |
| Cockpit Open | 4 |
| Connector | 6 |
| Container | 20 |
| Conveyor | 148 |
| Conveyor Tube | 87 |
| Conveyor Tube Curved | 47 |
| Effectiveness Module | 36 |
| Front Light | 2 |
| Generator | 2 |
| Gravity Generator | 2 |
| Gyro | 212 |
| Half Armor Block | 28 |
| Hex Stone Crusher | 2 |
| Hex Uranium Centrifuge | 4 |
| Hydrogen Tank | 6 |
| Hydrogen Thrust | 4 |
| Interior Pillar | 8 |
| Interior Turret | 51 |
| Interior Wall | 1307 |
| Jump Drive | 8 |
| LCD Panel | 32 |
| Landing Gear | 4 |
| LargeGatlingTurret | 11 |
| LargeMissileTurret | 7 |
| Light 1corner | 85 |
| Light 2corner | 1 |
| Medical Room | 2 |
| Missile Launcher | 7 |
| Ore Detector | 1 |
| OxygenGenerator | 16 |
| OxygenTank | 4 |
| Passage | 76 |
| Passenger Seat | 1 |
| Piston Base | 6 |
| Piston Top | 6 |
| Productivity Module | 18 |
| Programmable Block | 12 |
| Projector | 1 |
| Radio Antenna | 2 |
| Ramp | 88 |
| Refinery | 8 |
| Sensor | 1 |
| Shield Capacitor | 12 |
| Shield Flux Coil | 8 |
| Ship Large Shield Generator Base | 2 |
| Slide Door | 51 |
| Small Container | 55 |
| Small Light | 193 |
| Small Thrust | 66 |
| Stairs | 34 |
| Steel Catwalk | 105 |
| Steel Catwalk 2 Sides | 18 |
| Steel Catwalk Corner | 2 |
| Steel Catwalk Plate | 82 |
| Survival Kit | 4 |
| Thrust | 14 |
| Virtual Mass | 26 |
| Window 1x1 Face | 2 |
| Window 1x1 Flat | 8 |
| Window 1x1 Slope | 16 |
| Window 1x2 Face | 2 |
| Window 1x2 Flat | 11 |
| Window 1x2 Flat Inv | 34 |
| Window 1x2 Inv | 2 |
| Window 1x2 Slope | 2 |
| Window 2x3 Flat | 2 |
| Window 2x3 Flat Inv | 3 |
| Window 3x3 Flat | 3 |
| Window Edge | 13 |
| Window Square | 2 |