Terry Mixon
Emperor Mongoose
I added external fabricators (all 5 grades) at a full space to the sheet and present you the Enhanced Mobile Shipyard Fabricator! It's 10 dtons in size and built at TL15 standards, so it can build TL12 ships (or other items) solo or in groups. It can be completely robot operated, but it has a cabin for a two-person crew.
A robotically controlled fabricator made to work in space, though it can also be used on a planet. Its Enhanced Fabricator is built at TL15, so it is capable of making TL12 items. It has 3 dtons of space for raw materials, which will be roughly used in two two-hour sessions. It mounts the external fabricator outside on its front and uses its grav drive and high agility to work with precision.
With 1 dton (four vehicle spaces) dedicated to the fabricator, it can fabricate 0.6667 of a dton of ship (or other programmed item) in two hours, four hours for advanced robotic brains. That means it could make a 10 dton fighter in 30 total hours. It could make a 200 dton merchant ship in 600 total hours. It can work in tandem with other units to make the work proceed faster and is rated for 20 hours per day using the robotic controls.
It has accommodations for a sophont crew of two (pilot & fab tech) to do the work if desired.
Attached is the modified design sheet. Also attached is the spreadsheet I used to calculate how many chamber liters make up a vehicle space for external fabricators. Thanks go to @mavikfelna and Monjot for helping my math-challenged brain figure out external fabricator output formulas.
A robotically controlled fabricator made to work in space, though it can also be used on a planet. Its Enhanced Fabricator is built at TL15, so it is capable of making TL12 items. It has 3 dtons of space for raw materials, which will be roughly used in two two-hour sessions. It mounts the external fabricator outside on its front and uses its grav drive and high agility to work with precision.
With 1 dton (four vehicle spaces) dedicated to the fabricator, it can fabricate 0.6667 of a dton of ship (or other programmed item) in two hours, four hours for advanced robotic brains. That means it could make a 10 dton fighter in 30 total hours. It could make a 200 dton merchant ship in 600 total hours. It can work in tandem with other units to make the work proceed faster and is rated for 20 hours per day using the robotic controls.
It has accommodations for a sophont crew of two (pilot & fab tech) to do the work if desired.
Attached is the modified design sheet. Also attached is the spreadsheet I used to calculate how many chamber liters make up a vehicle space for external fabricators. Thanks go to @mavikfelna and Monjot for helping my math-challenged brain figure out external fabricator output formulas.
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