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Minerva III Advanced Destroyer

Minerva III is a destroyer with excellent firepower, protection and mobility. The ship comes with advanced features such as guided missiles, chaff countermeasures and auto-repairing weaponry. It is survival ready and capable of planetary landings.

This ship is the successor to Minerva I and II, offering vastly improved capabilities compared to the earlier models. Fully vanilla, although decorative DLC is required.

Minerva III comes equipped with a redesigned guided missile system using the new WHAM/LAMP script, and is capable of firing two missiles at a time. These missiles have been found to be capable of overcoming heavy point-defence when firing both at once with the "spiral" mode enabled.
Additionally, a powerful fixed Gatling multicannon is mounted to the bow of the ship which is capable of dealing precise damage at close-medium range and tearing through armour. Two additional turrets have been fitted to the ship bringing the total to 10 (excluding interior turrets).
Protection has also been improved with slight up-armouring of various internal compartments, as well as the introduction of chaff launchers on the underside of the hull.
Other minor changes include improved airlocks and crew quarters capacity.


While Minerva II was the first ship in the series to offer guided missile capabilities, the reliability and effectiveness of its launcher system was found to be unsatisfactory - largely due to it being a modification of the gravity gun seen on Minerva I, along with it being capable of firing only one missile at a time.
With the release of new missile scripts it was decided to build an entirely new missile launcher system which was more compact, reliable and effective.
The end result is a ship capable of effectively engaging targets at long range using the guided missiles, as well as in close quarters by making use of the expanded firepower and protection. The ship otherwise retains the good mobility and survival functionality of its predecessors.


No. Blocks: 3,977
Mass: 4,038,883 kg
Armament: 2 x Guided Missiles, 2 x Rocket Launchers, 1 x Gatling multicannon, 6 x Gatling Turrets, 4 x Missile Turrets
Hydrogen Capacity: 6 Large, 17 Small
Cargo Capacity: 1 Large, 5 Small
Jump Distance: 1238 km
Main Power Source: 1 x Large Reactor
Additional features: Chaff Launchers x 4, Weapon Auto-Repair system, Hangar bay, full refinery/assembly facilities, medical facilities, crew quarters with 4 cryo chambers and 4 beds

Ctrl-4 accesss the missile control panel from either of the main ship control seats. The missile controls are as follows;
1-fire one missile
2-fire both missiles
3-search for target lock
4-switch guidance mode (camera lock-on, turret lock-on, beam riding)
5-spiral mode on/off
6-stealth mode on/off


Note: The ship uses the guided missiles from Whiplash141's Komodo Mk2 destroyer as it was easier than designing/building a missile myself, credit goes to him for the missile design (and of course the various scripts controlling them)

A new upgraded model has been released, Minerva IV https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2363530153&searchtext=

Minerva I: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2094483706&searchtext=minerva
Minerva II: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2097213885&searchtext=

Invictus Class Frigate: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2146904371&searchtext=