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Home is ware the heart is

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Inspired by a conversation with :iconnomyai: and done as a fan-art project for his story series, Assumptions  link


Mang's ship had started life as an Alliance Navy Extended Duration Destroyer. Following the mindset of the Naval Bureau of Space Craft, she was officially known as “DDH-1072 (ED Mod III) class, Hull Number 3535”, naming a craft was extremely frowned upon. Her first crew had almost immediately dubbed her “The Barge” from the very sluggish helm response in a tight turn. After 25 years of service, she was handed over to the Reserve Fleet where she spent another 30 years in service as a solar system defense craft. 

Never one to scrap anything that might still be serviceable; BuCraft had her heavily modernized and handed over to Planetary Survey Division. While her 15 cm defensive plasma weapons remained intact, used mostly for deflecting errant meteors and other cosmic debris, she was stripped of her eight 50 cm plasma cannon main armament and twenty-four 75 cm torpedo tubes. The magazines for them being converted to storage holds. Removal of crew serviced weapons and extensive AI upgrades dropped crew size from 115 to one.

The 1072 class was hyperspace capable and had originally been set up to carry eight armed escorts/shuttles in separate bays. After conversion to Survey work, most of the bays were used as workshops and storage.

Just why the word "HOME" has been so boldly painted across 3535's bow will have to remain a slight mystery for the near future. I don't want to spoil the story.


The description above is kindly provided by nomyai

MoC is over five feet long and over 6K in bricks 
 
:iconscifistock:'s www.deviantart.com/art/Deep-Sp… as back ground
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Fantastic work, Drake, thanks so much for all your work on bringing Mang's ship to life!