[UESC] Construction Contest No6 | Exploration Vessel

[Julian]

"In stellis ortum certa evadat. Percutient, dignissim cursum."

Welcome to the Exploration Construction Contest the United Earth Space Corps is hosting.

tl;dr
The UESC is offering phenomenal prizes for 1st to 4th place in our monthly contests. This months topic is Exploration

Info:
The contest will end on 31-8-14 23:59:59 GMT. We will not accept any submissions afterwards.

Faction Links

UESC Website[www.uescorps.com]
UESC Forum[www.uescorps.com]
UESC Steam Page

What is this contest about?

The UESC wants to grow in numbers, so to achieve this goal and also to provide amusement and joy for the Space Engineers community as a whole, we decided to host a competition on a monthly basis with phenomenal prizes.

Every month, with every new contest, there will be a new topic, defining the type of your creation. If you were able to build anything your imagination can offer, then the judges would have a really tough time!

This contests topic:
Exploration Vessel

Info:
Three judges will rate every distributed creation on a scale of 1 to 10 and decide who will win in the end.

What are the prizes I can win?

The UESC is able to offer phenomenal prizes in the form of video games, or, in exceptional cases, honorary positions or actions. These video games, which are the main prizes for 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th place, will be sent to the winners in the form Steam keys or download links.
All the games will come from HumbleBundle[www.humblebundle.com], which means that the winners will get their free games, the money goes to charity and everyone is happy ever after!

This contests prizes:

• 1st Place: Hitman Absolution
  
• 2nd Place: Hitman Blood Money
  
• 3rd Place: Hitman: Contracts
  
• 4th Place: Hitman 2: Silent Assassin

Construction Requirements

What we want you to design and construct is a exploration vessel that will be sent into the deep emptiness of space. The duration of the trip can be extremely long and will take its crew to previously untouched locations. The ship must be self-sustaining. It needs to be capable of creating new components for additions and repairs, and needs to able mine and refine uranium in order to avoid running out of fuel.

Important Aspects:

• Has to be a large ship
  
• Ship must be capable of long journeys across the galaxy
  
• Ship must be self-sustaining
  
• Hangar can hold at least 4 small ships (size 20x15x10 small blocks per ship)

Important Modules/Compartments:

• Cargo Hold
  
• Medical Bay
  
• Hangar
  
• Crew Quarters
  
• Mess Hall
  
• Bridge
  
• Refinery
  
• Factory (Assemblers)

IMPORTANT: Mods are not allowed for this contest!

How can I enter the contest?

Everyone can enter the contest, you do not need to be nor become a member of the UESC, even though new members are highly appreciated and always welcome. Simply post your creation as a workshop object in the comment section with the following submission form:

Distributor:
Creation's Name:
Short Description:
(Insert Workshop Object Link Here)

Please note that we only accept one submission per player

Info:
You can post a workshop object simply by uploading the world your ship is in to the workshop. Then all you have to do is insert the link in your submission.



Best of luck and let your imagination run free!
Kindest regards,
[UESC] Facerafter

[Julian]

Since Cramat has stepped down as UESC Chancellor.
I as UESC Councillor of Internal Affairs will be from now on hosting and managing the contests.

[dragonfirecustoms]

Can you define large ship, as in weight or size please

[TheLightLOD]

Just to be clear: "Hangar can hold at least 4 small ships (size 20x15x10 small blocks)" we need to have a single large hanger for all four small ships?

[SnowCrash]

oh im so into this contest ;) bring your A-game buds

[Julian]

@Dragonfirecustoms
There is not really a minimum or maximum weight/size.
There are no restrictions/requirements in that matter. Just make sure the ship matches the requirements stated above.

@TheLightLOD
It doesn't matter if you have 1 hangar for 4 ships or 2 hangars with each 2 ships. You just need space for 4 ships. The space required for 1 ship is 20x15x10 small blocks

[OncaLupe]

Originally posted by UESC Facerafter:

The contest will end on 31-8-14 12pm GMT.

Just for clarification, 12pm means Noon. Is this when you actually want the contest to end, or did you mean midnight? If midnight it's best to have it as 11:59:59pm or 23:59:59 so there's no confusion on which day it ends, as some people count 12am as the end of the day, and some as the beginning of the day(which it technically is).

Originally posted by dragonfirecustoms:

Can you define large ship, as in weight or size please

Think they mean it just needs to be build from Large Hull blocks.

[Julian]

@Oncalupe thanks for notifying me, it's corrected.

[Abyzmi]

a crafty one, eh?

[Abyzmi]

Good luck. I'm sort of winding down from my gaming lately in preperation for the coming semester... still deciding whether or not to enter...

[Julian]

Corrected

[xF4LC0NxPUNCHx]

Hurray, a new contest :)

[SnowCrash]

I neglected to participate in the previous contest even though i had my station half built but im looking forward to this contest. If you want build updates from me (screenshots) i post only to friends so friend me if you want to see whats going on in SNowcrash-lAnD =)

[Tripping Pug]

A few questions.

What does "Ship must be capable of long journeys across the galaxy" mean, exactly? Large amount of cargo space, or what?

Also, can the modules/compartments be combined in some cases? For example, if I put my assemblers/refinerys in the same room as the reactor, is that okay? Or the med bay in the bridge/crew quarters area?

Edit: I edited out some of the stupid.

[MysticMalevolence]

Probably not going to compete in this one, due to my horrible track record with these contests.

[Camo5]

I would like feedback as to if this hangar is large enough: Also this is my submission to the contest, i will be editing it constantly :3
Distributor: Camo5
Creation's Name: S.S. Sausage
Short Description: A civilian class exploration vessel equipped with minimalistic properties. Has 1 refinery and 1 assembler, 4 large cargo containers and a bunch of small ones.Can hold a crew of 8. Has 24 solar panels and 12 batteries, plus a large reactor for auxiliary power.
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=294679212