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[Medium Start] Flute Respawn Ship

This is a version of my Flute Freighter Drone refitted into a mobile factory. It is a very cheap (not even a single thruster component!) and simple ship, however, it has plenty of room for upgrades — including a large Drill and some serious weaponry — and has a design which doesn't make you wish to grind it down just here and now.
It lies in the middle between "luxury yacht" respawn ships and barebone escape capsules with a factory attached; it is intended to be a ship worth keeping and upgrading into a self-contained mobile factory (and a whoppingly fast one, in fact) which then can form the core of your fleet.

The gameplay on this ship differs a little, however. It has an incomplete Refinery (don't worry, you have an Arc Furnace and spare computers in cargo), and none of it's large thrusters are operational, so you're limited to moderate 7.5 m/s^2 in every direction. So, you have to do some mining and bring some Iron and Nickel to get your Refinery running, then acquire Cobalt and Silicon to finish the second Assembler and the Large Hydrogen Thrusters.

Once you've done that, you get a mobile home with speed second only to gravity drives (0-500 m/s in 8.5 seconds), so you can escape nearly every pirate or griefer, provided that you spot them before they blow you up — the fuel capacity is enough to keep you at full thrust for 9 minutes. And yes, it goes SSTO with less than 2KK liters of hydrogen, if you attach some bottom thrusters or just keep it vertical like a rocket. It can freely hover in 0.25G in default configuration, so it works fine on the Moon and alike.

The goodies don't end here. You may notice some loose piping under the glass in the nose — it is for tools. Yes, you can attach a large ship drill and it will not look like it's cranked through a hole. A welder is fine too, so you can refine ores, manufacture parts and weld your station simultaneously on one ship. And finally, it has integrated conveyoring for 10 turrets, so the ship substitutes for a great corvette/Fast Attack Craft once you move out the factory modules.

— 474 tonnes dry weight
— 7.5 m/s^2 acceleration in all directions (dry)
— 58 m/s^2 forward acceleration once upgraded (dry)
— 1 Refinery (incomplete), 1 Arc Furnace, 2 Assemblers (1 incomplete), 2 Oxygen Generators
— 2 Solar Panels, 2 Batteries
— Room for 4 Refinery upgrades and 2+2 Assembler upgrades
— RC equipped
— 4 interior turrets (preloaded with 40 ammo clips each, preset to attack meteors, characters, missiles and small ships only)
— 5 Hydrogen Tanks (prefilled at 50%)
— 1 Large cargo container
— Medbay + Cryo Chamber
— 1 Drill hardpoint in the nose
— 10 turret hardpoints (beneath the dark catwalks)
— Extras: 40 computers, 3 tonnes of Ice
— No Mods, No Pistons, No Rotors, No Platinum!