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Repair Ship Kamchatka(1905)

//Historical Info//
One of the more infamous ships of the Imperial Russian Navy's ill fated 2nd Pacific Squadron, the Kamchatka was a auxiliary repair ship originally begun as a collier. The ship was completed in 1903 and entered service in the Baltic Fleet. In 1905 the ship sailed with the 2nd pacific squadron on its voyage during the Russo-Japanese War, with the intention of bolstering the Russian defense of Port Arthur. The squadron did anything but, and the Kamchatka seemingly managed to get itself into the middle of every political disaster, friendly fire incidents, and general blunder the squadron encountered on its voyage. In particular, the Kamchatka has become very well known for the multiple nonsensical incidents in which it supposedly reported sighting Japanese torpedo boats, while being tens of thousands of miles out of the possible range of said torpedo boats. The Kamchatka was finally sunk during the Battle of Tsushima(1905). To be fair to the Kamchatka, the whole squadron was in very poor shape, rife with mutiny and corruption, with many factors contributing to all of the squadrons various hjinks.

//Authors Notes//
1. No, this is not a perfect replica of the real ship. It is about twice as big as it should be. Also, I took many artistic liberties when I could not find adequate information about aspects of the ships design.
2. A major focus that I had with this project, and others directly associated was to make prominent use of the new ability to make glowing parts that was added in version 0.8. I haven't seen any real usage of it, though I could easily have missed such, and I felt It could use some showcasing.