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DRx Aphercotropist

Aphercotropism is the way in which living things grow around obstacles. The Aphercotropist class is the DRx Shipyard's newest capital ship.

This is a basic all-rounder designed expressly for Survival mode, the central hub that a escaping fleet can huddle around. The spiritual successor to the Helican Omicron and housing over a 1000 souls, its a largely self reliant ship, capable of refuelling itself, growing its own food, replenishing water stocks and maintaining an atmosphere. Its a little slow, but more than sufficient to pursue a comet. The Helicans relied almost entirely on gunnery and salvaging to stay alive: the Aphercotropist relies on self-sufficiency, balance, and endurance.

Generally, water, air, and fuel production are split into separate reclamation and usage systems. Any imbalance will result in lots of surplus canisters, ideal for fleet logistics. Captains can see at a glance if there's a gap in their life support simply by eyeballing their cargo holds.

There's a fully equipped salvage and mining system for both asteroids and comets, using a fast drone swarm system. A light industrial block can process all materials and savage and generate anything you require, from tracks and doors through to Deflectors and replacement drones. A dedicated science unit is on hand, to handle the tech tree and process vital data coming from the singularity.

Finally, fleeing a deep space catastrophe need not be a lonely or miserable affair; there are multiple rec rooms for crew to enjoy.

This particular hull is roughly worth 35M spacebux, and comes with the basic badging and decalling of a ship of its class.

There's a starting complement here of 80 crew; we've found approximately 150-170 seems to be a good number: There's plenty to do on a ship of this size.

Bonus: added the original version's portrait. Yoiks!