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Whale King - Transport Zoid [2 MODS]

"When the battlefield becomes an immense area in a war between continents, it is essential for a transporter to carry a large quantity of Zoids at once. The giant Whale King can carry an entire battalion of troops and move through either air or sea with ease. Though its enormous size and slow mobility make it unsuitable for direct combat, it is still heavily armored and can protect the Zoids it carries." --- Zoids Wiki

So there's not a lot of specs or even decent views of Whale Kings available from the Anime or Manga, which means that this big girl is more artistic interpretation than meticulous replication, haha! As it stands, though, she's an incredible cargoship with a lot of pretty cool features, just don't expect her to turn on a dime! Fully survival ready and all piped up, she just needs ammo and ice loaded.

This model of the Whale King is specifically designed for normal operations in Space Engineers, with two internal cargo decks and the capacity to pack up and move an entire base from one planet to the next, to resupply multiple bases in one go, or to land a sizable invasion force if that's your style. The upper deck is accessed via a working cargo elevator in the front-end, or via slingloading cargo in through the telescoping retractable roof over the aft aircraft hangar. If there is any interest, I may tweak some of the features to create a Zoid / walker transport version, as well as a more 'Battlejack' ~style millitarized version.

She's big and heavy, even when completely empty, so much so that she cannot make space using vanilla thrusters. So that's why the tiered engines mod is necessary. As for plane parts, the underslung engines wouldn't realistically be possible without them, and the wings (fins?) wouldn't look nearly as nice.

HUGE thanks to Epiktetus of EpikTek for offering to do a walkthrough/tour of the Whale King! He's an amazing Space Engineers YouTuber, and you should totally go check him out!

~The strips of orange small-grid blocks along the sides of the cargo bays are there to build restraining straps/braces to secure your cargo with, especially for when using the jump drive.
~There seems to be some issue with the tiered thrusters mod, where the hydrogen engines won't light until the power usage exceeds 100%. The Whale King has power to spare, so I usually turn off 5-6 of the 8 reactors to get them to light.
~It doesn't shed forward momentum quickly in atmosphere, so use the airbrakes and plan to start stopping well in advance of your LZ. Also, despite having 100+ gyros, it doesn't turn quickly, and it doesn't stop turning quickly either, so keep that in mind when maneuvering.

Gives the 'missing mods' warning when pasted. This seems to be because the world I built it in has other mods for some of the vehicles I used as prop cargo. One of which has evidentally changed something to do with small-grid interior lights, despite them being vanilla blocks, as that's the only thing missing I could find. I'll try and get that fixed & updated this weekend. :)