Niðavellir Shipyard: Grebbestad class Clipper ship

Niðavellir Shipyard

The Nidavellir Shipyard is a large UCM Shipyard hidden far away from any planetary system.
After the scattering of humans after the first Scourge attack many ships used their ftl drives and made an random Foldspace jump just to get away. Many of this ships found themselves alone in the dark, to close to a star or a black hole and perished but some made it to an empty place in space. And that’s how the Nidavellir belt was discovered. A collection of large rocks, asteroids in different sizes and collection of dust and sand. Exactly how this place come to be, far from any sun, placed in between systems is not known. It is believed it was created after an extremely unlikely collision of two larger celestial body, with no stronger gravity pull in the vicinity this collection of minerals and rocks have held together by their own combined pull of each other. The scatter of large rocks and the natural background radioactivity have created a hiding place. After the survivors made contact with the now formed UCM the area have been put to good use.

Named after the Norse mythology Nidavellir, the world of the dwarves, for its rich mineral and metal resources. Perfectly for foundries and a large shipyard complex.

This is the place to produce ships...

Sunday 10 February 2019

Grebbestad class Clipper ship

I converted this small ship from leftover bits.
The idea is a fast smaller ship for transporting messages, data, personal or wips.

It only got weaponry for basic self protection and is not meant to be sent against the enemies.

The larger blue areas on the top is meant to represent some kind of observation decks to offer a good view for travellers during space flight.

The name and the class type may be changed later on but it seems somewhat appropriate.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clipper

She was really fun to paint and build.

She is meant for some kind of special scenarios in the future.
For stats I think about giving her the stats of the Santiago class Corvette but with with less or no weapons. Maybe exchange the Stingray missile bays of the Santiago for the less potent Barracuda missile bay( with only two attacks).
Maybe losing atmospheric rule that the corvette have also?