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The Ark

My second mass build. Before we go to far, there will be a major revision within two weeks time. So please do not rush to build this! Since taking it apart will be a b****!
This one is still under development due to the fact that the ship was oversized and causing my computer to have major lags during the development phase.

The entire air unit is constructed in three components: front deck, mid hanger and control, rear living quarter and utility bay.

Specifications:
Regular Max Speed: 34.7 km/hr
Utilities: Full Planet nomands spec, all utility except for the mining and water pump. (To be followed)

Entertainment:
- A fully functional(fake) captain quarter with ensuite.
- A fully functional(fake) crew quarter with tatami.
- A strategic meeting room with all forces utility room.
- All three above can be found in the upper rear compartment of the ship.

Functionals:
- Hanger bay lower door
- Vehical bay entry door
- Mobile storage track
- Front deck door (not fully function at this point)

Mobile storage:
- The mobile storage system can take the mobile large container and connect with the carrier storage gride system.
- It will need both the mobile storage and mobile storage carrier from my work shop to make it functionalble. (Still work in progress too. May need a locking mechanism.)

Operation annotation:
(Detailed documentation will come after. )

Please note that also this unit has the speeding module with 6 gears. I haven't tested the functionality so far due to the computer performance issue. Please practice with caution.

If you have any questions or comments, please feel free to post them below. This is a work in progress after all.

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2019-01-03 Updates:

Alright, first of all, thank you everyone for the supports! Currently I don’t have the access to the computer until the end of this week. So based on my memory, here is couple things to the questions:

Switches are mostly color coded to align with all the utility components.
- yellow connects light, doors and stasis chamber.
- red connects production units in crew quarter.
- blue connects medium FAD
- green is the color of power distribution nodes which provide power to each section of the ship.
- black shall be connected to all the large propellers and associated with flight control like speed gear.

Most of the control units which serves control purpose has annotations key prefix:
- flight: all the control to large propellers and speed gears(I believe)
- power: all the power nodes which linked back to the generators.
- auxiliary: all the power switch between power and auxiliaries.
- control: all the ship functional including front deck door, mid hanger bottom door, mid vehicle bay bottom ramp (work in progress, apparently rear compartment is too big after the build, which did left enough room for anything to come in.) there are three more connectors control in the bottom of the ship.
- production: I wasn’t sure if I got this one setup. But if I did, every utility with this name would directly apply to the medium 3D printer that already continuously manufactures that component.

Storage loading involves with a sequence of actions as following (please note that this shall be completed after the storage carrier docked on the ark.)
- from the storage carrier side.
- first, the player has to activate the unlocking winch for the storage cartridge to release the locking mechanism under the carrier. (the ark still need that mechanism too
- second, the player shall connect the carrier power to the winch on the storage cartridge, if it hasn't been done yet. (notice that the storage has one side hook and the other side winch?)
- third, the player shall deactivate the winch which secure the storage cartridge.

- from the ark side
- connect the winch on the storage cartridge to the hook at the end of rail on the ark.
- activate the winch and let the storage cartridge to load itself. :)

The list of work in progress is as following:
functionality:
- the speed gears is not functioning as it should. Will have to make a revision.
- rear storage system may subject to a major rework for better storage docking and storage cartridges with locking mechanism.
- the vehicle loading ramp currently has design issues. with the addition of the rear lower compartment, the loading ramp do not have enough room for the vehicle entry at its full open.
- the front deck door is functioning minimal, may need some rework to make it better.
- decorative:
- additional lights can be added around the ship to make it a better ride.

Idea behind the speeding gear:
- the concept came from one of my builds, the air miner V2.1. it utilizes one of the in game glitch.
- each gear swtich was connected with the sub sequence gear switch. Which means to make the gear III functional, player has to switch on both gear II and gear III, and gear I is connected to the source power and it shall work as soon as it switches on.
- my current assumption of the issue why it doesn't work is that i should use regular beams between each wheels. However, if it doesn't work, then the entire system will need a major rework.
- for my air miner, one set of gear can push it to 550 km/hr. the ark is a lot more heavier, so I am not sure what could happen if the speeding gear set works and player turns all six gears on. (I probabely shall test it before encourage others to try.) LOL

2019-01-10 Updates:
- Just completed couple testing. The speeding gear actually work just fine. However due to the common center of mass vs flight lift stability problem, there are quite a few tweaks that I have to make which will take about one month.
- Need to revise the storage system to type B, which is going to take apart all the rear flight system.
- it seems better to revise the front to an open deck.

Another apology for the wait.

Special thanks to Erdenstern who actually made a video of my build and with testing and nurmerous feedback!.