User:XW3 AR3 L3GION/Nostromo

The Nostromo is one of the privileged few planet cracker in existance. While the Nostromo is not the biggest, longest or oldest currently in service, it has set the record for the highest amount of planet and asteroid 'cracks' (34 and 108 respectively). With eighty years of continuous service to its owner, Ridley Enterprises the Nostromo has raked in trillions of tonnes of ore ready to be used.

Details
The Nostromo's offical crew complement was 4,021 before its destruction and was comprised mainly of miners and engineers along with scientists, medical staff, flight crew, security personnel and officers. There were also several dozen children aboard who were the offspring of the crew as many were married to each other due to the long cracking process. The Nostromo could mine and smelt entire planets, moons or asteroids with a matter of years - it took six years to crack a planet the same size of Terra. The Nostromo uses gravity tethers to grapple onto its target and to pull it into its huge mining bays. The same gravity tethers are used to crack a planet or moon as well as asteroids.

Ship Sections
Bridge

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Cargo Hold

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Crew Deck

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Engines

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Engineering Deck

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Landing Bay

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Hydroponics

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Mining Deck

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Science/Medical Wards

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Other Systems

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Destruction
The Nostromo was first crippled by the survivors of the crew, stopping the Flood from leaving the system and continuing their thirst of more hosts to infect. Despite their best efforts, the Flood managed to attack and infect two other ships that had both responded to the survivors distress signals - a small repair vessel and later a Kohl warship. After the Kohl warship had been crippled by a single Combat Form, it had quickly sent another distress signal to Sanctuary with an attached biological warning.

The Federal Republican Defence Force sent the Federal Taskforce Eta which had a small contingent of vessels from the UNSC Navy. As soon as the Terran A.I. onboard saw the Installation, it had tripped a Office of Naval Intelligence sub-routine hidden within its systems which ordered the destruction of any infected vessels: ending the Nostromo in a blaze of nuclear bombs.