Hephaestus

The following information has not been confirmed by Volition and is therefore not canon for the FreeSpace universe.

The Hephaestus.

"I saw Hephaestus. I saw the others. The foundries make the ships and the ships go out and make the foundries and we ride the comets out, everywhere...no subspace. No limits. They won't find us." - Awhireinga Greenfly

Description:

Tech Room Description

The Hephaestus is one of humanity's great engineering marvels. The concept of a self-sufficient mobile factory was realised after a series of breakthroughs made large-scale automated von-Neumann style construction methods viable. A conglomeration of cargo holds, machine shops, and resource extractors housed within a massive mining vessel hull, these vessels provide the Kuiper belt colonies with much needed mobile manufacturing capability. The grand aim is to allow regions of the Kuiper Belt and Oort Cloud to sever all economic ties with the inner solar system.

Credits

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Performance:

Statistics

Name	Hephaestus
Type	Mobile Factory
Manufacturer	Gaian Effort
Yaw, Pitch, Roll	100 - 100 - 100 s
Max Velocity	20 (25) ms-1
Rear Velocity	200 ms-1
Hitpoints	90000 pts
Length	2139.98 m
Width	569.44 m
Height	529.4 m
Turrets	2 turrets
Fighterbays	3

Armaments

• Turrets

Default Statistics
Turret Type	Amount
Mining Laser	2

Gallery

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  Side-by-side comparison with the Morena MacDuff

Modding Resources

$POF File: gef_hephaestus.pof

Texture list: gefplate2;gefplate;scshipyard;DaedDet;URDonnager;DaedRot;vctile4;mod_strip

Veteran Comments

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The mining ship that the Hephaestus is based on, the UEMi Starblade, appears in Chanticleer, where the UEF uses one as a decoy for the Maitreya. Lacking proper docking points and having almost no point defenses, it's best used as a prop.

External links:

• Release thread | Hard-light forums
• Download | GDrive