I’ve never been quite satisfied with the Hipper’s engineering section, but I went a little overboard in trying to make the ship workshop ready. For one thing I’ve basically remodeled the entire section, so much so that the Hipper’s sister ships are likely to have unique engineering sections themselves.

I wanted to find a way to fit two geshtam engines into the engineering space. The only way I could do that and still have the area be ‘comfortably navigable’ was to arrange them vertically. Thankfully this remodeling only took a couple of hours. The geshtam engines practically poke out of the bottom of the ship now, but a thin layer of heavy armor keeps everything looking nice and smooth on the exterior. Granted, this is a weakpoint of the ship now, but not the easiest to exploit.

Even with the ridiculously tall look of the engineering section, the Hipper’s core looks quite similar to the Magdeburg’s now, so that’s nice. The remaining issues with it are finding a new spot for the gravity generator and reinstalling some oxygen tanks.

The only other issues keeping Hipper off the workshop are that cleanup I mentioned, touching up the gravity engine system, and making sure all the seats, consoles, and programmable blocks are setup. That and the Cosmo Messer F, which I feel needs to go up first.