Rigor Rostrum V2
The Rigor Rostrum is a Core-11 Dreadnought-Harrier and Fast Battleship. This is the ship I’ve used to kill the new Tovera Dreadnought and you can view a video of that fight and a demonstration of this ship in the linked videos above ( screenshot section )
Made specifically to kill the Tovera Dreadnought and other End-game boss encounters, the Rigor Rostrom is an ultra-efficient & slimline Battleship-Harrier. She’s made to bombard from range and finish up close and personal with a heavy hand.
The ship is composed primarily of Combat steel, with 6-10 Layers deep of full-frontal CS + multiple segregated decoys buried deep and low in it’s nose for ideal dodging of enemy fire in upthrusting maneuvers. The Rigor Rostrum can dodge nearly all types of fire, including being so fast and trim as to dodge most incoming missiles in RE 2.0 if used properly.
Equipped with 22 Missile turrets, this ship puts out an explosive volley of rockets capable of destroying a turret every 1 second, from those turrets only. To add to it’s impressive Missile volleys, the Rigor has 12 Medium Laser turrets to put the pain down on both Drones and turrets & devices alike. If all that weren’t enough the ship mounts 6 Heavy weapons, and comes stock with Heavy Plasma cannons, for making big big holes in enemy ships. With 20% radius bonus and Anti-armor bonuses, your Manual Plasma battery will shatter thruster pods and turrets alike, whether you’re perfectly accurate or not. & to add insult to injury, Any drone that comes within 300m of your ship will be met by a Hail of bullets from 23 inbuilt sentry turrets.
The Rigor comes standard as a Core 11 with a Small Fusion Core, and can run 2 Large shield extenders + a Medium shield extender, for 50-70k Shield strengths and relatively HIGH personal shield generation. This is a ship that is designed to both dodge & take fire, but its respectable shield strengths helps you stay in the fight longer, stripping more turrets and devices between recharges.
This is an exceptional Battleship, made to the highest standards, it is extensively damage and blast tested. It can have every single turret and weapon blown off of it and continue to fly. The Rigor can be down-graded all the way to a Core7 w/ Advanced Generator, shield, and about 26 weapons, but is more suited to higher CPU levels where it can afford a larger manual weapon array. The ships blueprint CONTAINS 2 QUANTUM CORES, and so you will need to take the blueprint into creative and remove them, & choose your turret and weapon loadout before spawning the ship in and placing your Quantum cores in it. Do not turn on the ships power until you have installed the appropriate CPU extenders.
^ I was able to acquire the Quantum processors to bring in this Core11 by killing 4 Infectors in Legacy space, whom drop 16-20 quantum processors each. It is not particularly hard to get the 60-odd processors to spawn in a Core11 ship. I hunted infectors using "The Sabaton" in Legacy Space. Fyi and Happy hunting.
Enjoy,
Art
