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Blueprint: Capital Vessel
Custom: Airtight
Tags: Blueprint
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Oct 31 @ 1:49pm
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Tantō-XCV

Description
Built for Reforged Eden 2 (Beta)
Core 4 Mini Combat CV

Tantō XCV, Core 4 compact agile shield fighter. Can upgrade to Core 5 - see the LCD in the cockpit. Weapons, thrusters etc controlled from the signals section of the 'P' menu. Mostly hardened steel hull with combat steel/xeno steel in some critical areas, 2 decoy small thrusters at the sides towards the front. Rear mounted alarm sentries to try and detect sneaky OPVs jumping you while you're looting their comrades. No chain protection, don't lose your shield.

Inspired by (and stealing the cockpit from) Garaman's awesome RE1 Slipfire.

Intended to take on low level Zirax OPVs and loot them to gain the materials/CPU for a main ship, much more fun than mining ;-) . Core 4 can bully Kuiveras and Sunats, Core 5 can bully Periats and Malraks. If you are brave/foolish/skilled can deal with Imerats at Core 5 (only tried in SP).

There is space below the central rear Large Ion Thruster for a Micro Jump Drive, this will take you over CPU at Core 5 but the Tantō will only lose approx 1-2% thrust.

Weapons:
4 x Medium Dual Plasma Cannons
2 x Light Gatling Turrets

Equipment:
Warp Drive
Armor Locker & Oxygen station
Fridge, Shower & Medic Station
Detector

Storage:
1 x 56k Ammo
1 x 160k Cargo Bay
1 x 8k Cargo Box

Shield:
49k Capacity
600 Recharge

Note: The last image shows the Tantō upgraded to Core 5 and engaging a Malrak.

NOTICE: I messed something up, if you subscribe it will appear as 'Tant' in your blueprint list - not 'Tanto' no idea why.
11 Comments
Survival Ready Nov 6 @ 5:10am 
I love compact combat ships, but the large side thrusters look bad. Replacing them with four C-thrusters and covering them with half-heavy windows would make the design look lighter and leave 30k CPU for additional turrets. Sub & Up! :steamthumbsup:
Ionic  [author] Nov 3 @ 3:50am 
@Glorasim; Thanks, I was going for a minimum CPU build, so mediums are more CPU efficient for the same DPS.
Ionic  [author] Nov 3 @ 3:49am 
@Stuey B, Caveman, Myrmidon, jdfraton; Thanks for the kind words.
Glorasim Nov 3 @ 3:07am 
Realy nice work but I think with 12 light plasma you have 50% more DPS and would be much cheaper, but nead more cpu.
Stuey B Nov 2 @ 1:56pm 
This is a great pocket combat CV, easily handles up to Malrak in MP.
Have been able to take out Supply Stations and Orbital Outposts wil only a few dings.
Highly recommend!
Caveman Nov 2 @ 11:51am 
Nice:)
Myrmidon Nov 2 @ 2:34am 
The character in the end does not appear because you saved the name while your keyboard was in language different than English. You can specify with what name it will be spawned, if you select the blueprint in your library if you double click the name it opens the properties and you will find it there bellow the "Blueprint group name" you will find "Spawn name" where you give it the spawn name. Remember to change the language to English. Also thank you for creating a small fighter capable of fighting patrol vessels. My :steamthumbsup:
jdrafton Nov 1 @ 9:57pm 
Well thought out!
Ionic  [author] Nov 1 @ 3:51am 
@filbertfarmer - Thanks!
filbertfarmer Oct 31 @ 8:01pm 
Awesome build Ionic!