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Richman's Mobile Exploration Crawler

Mobile Exploration/Mining Crawler

This mobile base - inspired by the NASA Crawler Transporter and the FatBoy Mobile Factory from the Surpreme Commander series - was built in survival. So it mainly covers needs for mining, defense and mobility.

With it's atmospheric thrusters it's able to hover and fly but under huge power consumption. It features hydrogen engines to achieve space and increase it's mobility their. It's ion drives are mainly used for docking and it uses the jump drive to cover large distances in space.

On the ground it is mainly powered by it's four large "tracks", which are connected with pistons to the chassis to change ground clearance. The drive is controlled via a own script (as a lot of stuff on the crawler) and features cruise control, steer hold and a spot turn function.

It features a large extendable mining drill, which can reach ore up to 100m below surface, a complete refining suite, a robotic arm to help in repair and construction also of small ships and rovers, a heli deck for airborne craft as well as a hangar for rovers.

Diverse litte scripts help in operation of the Crawler: drive, drilling, item sorting, status of energy and consumables, etc.

Mods:
The main defence consist of X-3 Batteries (mod), but the solar deck is well equipted with point defence weaponry.

DLC:
The only DLC part is a cockpit of a docked rover. So the main hull of the Crawler works with vanilla.