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Bicksborg II

Class: Attack, Tier 3
Price: 42,000 mk
Recommended crew: 4 - 9
Dimensions: 75m x 20m
Cargo capacity: 8 crates
Docking ports: 2 top, 1 bottom (all double as airlocks)
Max horizontal speed: 22km/h (27km/h with aux engine)
Max descent speed: 19km/h
Bicksborg II

• 2 small turrets (1 coilgun, 1 hardpoint)
  
• 2 large turrets (1 railgun, 1 flak cannon)
  
• 3 discharge coils (long range, high power consumption)
  
• 1 depth charge launcher

Galdur-C

• 1 small turret (1 chaingun)
  
• 1 discharge coil (short range, low power consumption)

• Auto-charge battery mode (recharge rate adapts to grid load and reactor output, and stops at just over 80%; the remainder acts as a surge absorption buffer).
  
• Silent running mode (suppresses reactor, reduces engine power, turns off searchlights, and uses battery power for stealth).
  
• Lammert v2 auto reactor controller (use this if engineer feels lazy). Includes 'turbo' mode switch and overvolting option (inside circuit box on left side of reactor room).
  
• Ballast draining overrides (drains and cuts power to ballasts, for safe Ballast Flora removal or emergency ascent independent of nav steering).
  
• Docking controls (individual toggles for each docking port, and ability to select which dock is controlled by nav terminal).
  
• Sonar shifting (re-centres sonar to the bow for increased forwards view range).
  
• Switches for engines, guns, searchlights, oxygen generation, and fabrication.
  
• Periscopes for drone piloting and camera surveillance.

• Large medbay with a hospital bed, ample storage, and facilities for medical fabrication and genetic research.
  
• Fabrication room with linked deconstructor, fabricator, and storage.
  
• Growroom for green-thumbed submariners.
  
• Crew quarters and cabins for submariners' comfort. Notable is the luxurious Captain's cabin, sometimes used by VIPs.
  
• Brig for prisoner transport, as well as an 'experimental containment cell' which may be used for artefacts and unruly passengers alike.

Two hulls separated by water-filled void enclose the entire submarine save for the airlocks. Because the flooded void space is not part of the habitable pressure hull, breaches in the outer layer will not lead to any loss in bouyancy. For maintenance, the void may be accessed through small side-doors at each of the airlocks. (Beware: only enter the void while the sub is stationary, or you will get swept and pinned into a wall).
A keel-mounted auxiliary engine can raise top speeds from 22 to 27 km/h when used with the main engines, but it is recommended to save it for emergencies only. The auxiliary engine is power hungry and deteriorates twice as quickly when in use. Maintenance is difficult, as it can only be accessed from outside and takes much longer to repair.
A modified Galdur Scout Pod, Galdur-C is a hybrid drone/shuttle driven by periscope and armed with a chaingun and short-range discharge coil. It can be controlled remotely from Bicksborg II's command room, or from within Galdur-C itself (wear a diving suit in the drone, as it has no O2 generator). Click-holding will drive Galdur-C in the direction of the cursor, and doubleclick-holding will fire the chaingun. Openable upper and lower docking hatches mean the drone doesn't block access through the airlock to which it is docked, and it can be stationed at any of Bicksborg II's three ports.

If you use the Performance Fix mod, update these settings to ensure that it doesn’t break the drone or any other systems.

Thank-you to the following Europans, whose works were used in the design of Bicksborg II:

• Benzin - V-1999 Remastered Mk II
  
• Kerbarian - Galdur Scout Pod
  
• Lammert - Automatic Reactor Controller HTS
  
• Cengaver_ - Smart Batteries
  
• 241Randy - 99 Cameras: Scalable Camera Array
  
• Lord_Bighead - Ballast Flora Mode

Special thanks to Fraserk and Kashburton for playtesting this submarine.

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