A medium-sized mobile space platform (aka a space ship) for transporting small loads between the 5 planets including Aquilo.
The S2 is larger than the S1 and is designed with Aquilo travel and nuclear power in mind, however this T variant runs 100% solar, even at Aquilo.
Design history:
- S2 Proto A - Initial S2 shape, thrusters, collectors, and turrets. Individual lines for each asteroid type took up too much space. Required frequent manual cleaning. Rocket and Piercing Magazine production too slow, required imports from Nauvis.
- S2 Proto B - Moved to single line from collectors. Improved Rocket production, Piercing Magazine production improved, but still too slow, requiring imports.
- S2 Proto C - Full redesign of internals. Fewer steam turbines on power plant (original was overkill), larger lines as buffers for asteroid processing, moved to regular ammo magazines so steel and copper no longer required, and put in some reprocessing to deal with the high number of oxide asteroids at Aquilo.
- S2 Proto D - Moved factories around and replaced furnaces with foundries. Kept getting jammed after 3-4 trips though, so abandoned this design, but implimented the Foundries backwards into Proto C.
- S2-F Freighter - The improved Proro Cs became the Freighter variant.
- S2-T Transport - Stripped back the S2-F to make a self sustaining solar Aquilo transport.
The S2-T swaps out the S2-Fs reactor setup for solar. It also sacrifices most of the S2-Fs cargo space for more solar panels, and makes use of efficiency modules to get the power usage down.
This uses RARE solar panels at a minimum. I have uploaded a plan for 'Common/Uncommon/Rare/Epic solar panel assembly line' if anyone needs it.
Currently in use with space-age vanilla 2.0.28