E78-12 "Spatial" Civilian Deep Space Explorer

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E78-12 "Spatial" Civilian Deep Space Explorer
Ship Class	Super Heavy Fighter
Built by	Civilian
Technical information
Guns/Turrets	6 / 3
Opt. weapon class	10
Max. weapon class	10
Other equipment	1xCD/T 1xCM 2xM
Hull strength	29,600
Max. shield class	10
Cargo space	180 units
Nanobots/Batteries	270/270
Max. impulse speed	80 m/s
Max. thrust speed	199 m/s
Max. cruise speed	350 m/s
Power output	39,130 u
Power recharge	2,350 u/s
Additional information
Ship price	$4,180,000
Package price	$4,298,880

The Spatial is often employed by mining faction, to explore asteroid fields deep inside the borderworlds. While being as large as some freighters, the Spatial sacrifices cargo space in favor of additional equipment options. Dual mine launchers and the ability to power a single bomber-class torpedo make this craft formidable, yet it's sluggish maneuverability and large size often leave it very vulnerable in combat.

The Spatial is capable of sustained flight beyond a system's heliosphere to an adjacent system, posessing the cold sleep and life support systems to maintain up to five persons for years of sustained travel. The craft is equipped with multiple long burn Ageira engines, any of which are capable of powering the craft independantly.

This ship can be retrofitted with special mining equipment, to glean an additional yield from mineral deposits in space.

Handling

• This ship is too large to use docking bays, it must use mooring points.

Outdated Review (4.86)

Review (4.86) The Spatial is one of the more difficult ships to mine with. While the Surveyor is tiny and fast, allowing it to easily comb the fields even with only one mining turret, and most other mining ships are able to mount a huge amount of mining turrets to easily mine the fields, the Spatial is a rather large ship which can only fire two turrets forwards. However, it is still able to receive the mining bonus, and with practice you will still mine quickly with only one mining turret on the side of this ship. With this ship, you will have nearly 30,000 hull, a freighter shield, a bomber torpedo, two mine dispensers, and the potential to wield four codenames, two class 9's, and two heavy fighter turrets, all while still being able to mine. If you're working with a group of miners, all flying this ship, it won't be long before pirates stop coming. However, the Spatial is one of the few fighters that actually has to worry about being hit by bomber torpedos. It has a huge plate on the right side, so make sure, if your shield is down, never expose that side to a bomber. Now, there are some who have absolutely no interest in using this as a mining ship. For those people, you can have 6 guns and 3 turrets, two of which fire forwards. You will be effective against fighters, bombers, gunboats, transports, and destroyers. Not alone, of course; gunboats and destroyers will be very difficult to take on alone. As a Civilian ship, just about anyone can use this for whatever purposes they may please. Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Review by TLI-Inferno

Review (4.88.1)

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The Spatial is an incredible and amazing ship. It is not the best mining ship, not even close. It doesn't have the same mining speed as Arrastra or the Surveyor and it also doesn't have Hegemon's Cargo hold, however the Spatial is still a great choice if you wish to mine with its turrets while still making any pirate think twice before coming anywhere near you.

Although the Spatial is a very unpreciated fighter, it is an incredible choice once you manage to learn how to work with it. With an incredible Hull size of 29,600 already just by itself bigger then that of any Heavy Bomber, freighter or Fighter with its Cargo size of 180 units you can mount it with a Heavy Armor Upgrade Mk IV making it reach 88,800 hull turning it into something more resistant then some smaller gunships. Despite its stunning hull size there is more to this ship, as a Super Heavy Fighter the Spatial can mount Freighter shields, this way it can have more then double the shield of a Very Heavy Fighter.

Besides its hull and shield the Spatial also packs quite a punch. With a power output of about 39,000 and its abillity to carry a Bomber Torpedo such as the Nova Torpedo Launcher, the Spatial can easly fight against Gunboats or Cruisers and win. Against fighters the Spatial can rain death to them with 2 class 8 guns , 2 class 9 guns (CODENAMES), 2 Class 10 guns that can also be filled with missiles such as the Firestalker or the Sidewinder and 3 turrets of which only 2 can fire forward and 2 mine dispensers for a deadly Nuclear Mine and Screamer Mine combination.

However there is a big reason why soo many people dislike the Spatial and it is soo hard to use, although considered a Super Heavy Fighter the Spatial's size is somewhere between that of a Heavy Bomber and a Gunship with an agility of an average bomber, making it a huge target.

With all this said the Spatial is a great ship but very hard to use because of the fatal flaw that is its size, but put a Spatial in the right hands and with the right setup and it is possibly one of the worst things you can fight against being able to take on anything from Fighters to Capital Ships while looking stylish when mining.

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Review by Shalo

Hardpoints

• 2 Class 8 Guns
• 2 Class 9 Guns
• 2 Class 10 Guns
• 3 Class 2 Turrets
• 1 Cruise Disruptor OR Fighter Torpedo OR Bomber Torpedo
• 1 Class 10 H. F. Shield OR Class 6 Freighter Shield

Purchase Includes

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1 Scanner ($500) 1 Adv. Protector H. F. Shield ($118,380)

Availability

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Base Owner System Location Java Station IMG Tau-23 Border Worlds Planet Harris Planetform, Inc. Tau-31 Border Worlds Alamo Base Xeno Guard Alabama Border Worlds Freeport 9 Zoners Omicron Theta Edge Worlds