PW Cw RS 1 "Angel Class"

The Ponyworks Cw_RS_1 Angel (Latest complete Ponyworks model code: PW Cw_RS_1a r1 "Angel Class") Is a ship duplication manufactured by PONYWORKS Dupe Engineering Group as a contribution to Project Blue Aid. The Angel is the first ship produced by Ponyworks to have entered official service use, passing service verification trials on the 9th of April 2020.
==Design==
As the first ship produced in Ponyworks history to have progressed through all stages of pre-service development, the Angel provided novel physical challenges throughout its construction and subsequent testing that lead to the formation of a number of details of the final design of the ship.
The Angel features a hull comprised of large, solid props and a simplified shape intended to reduce the total quantity of prop entities required. For the same reason, the Angel does not include any hollow interior spaces below the waterline.
The superstructure of the ship includes five accessible sections. The first two are the first level and the second level, both are interior spaces for holding passengers, equipment and cargo. Together the first and second levels account for most of the size of the superstructure. The third section is the helideck, featuring a helicopter landing pad acting as a secondary means of entering the ship should the primary entry point at the stern of the ship be insufficient or inaccessible in a given situation. The fourth section is the stairwell, allowing free movement between the first level, second level and the helideck. The fifth section is the bridge, the location of the controls of the ship, accessible from the helideck.
Unfrozen maneuvering of the ship across a map is possible, provided that a body of water large enough to do so is present. Propulsion for motion is accommodated by a pair of propellers located at the stern of the ship and below the waterline, as well as a rudder in the same location, each equipped with wire thrusters for direct motion control from the bridge.
The wiremodding and technology of the ship was intentionally kept as minimal as a set of thrusters and a pod controller to make the Angel available through Project Blue Aid in a much reduced schedule, and increase the number of possible servers that can be visited by removing the risk of the ship being affected by E2 restrictions.
==Classification==
===Ship Type Classification===
Alongside the construction phase of the Angel, new categorial and terminological difficulties arose for Ponyworks in determining how the new type of vehicle would be classified, and what model code would be provided. Before the completion of the ship, it was decided that traditional ship classification terms would be disposed of, and that all future ships both naval and civil produced by Ponyworks would conform to a new standard of classifying ships by primary purpose, regardless of physical properties or features of the ship, and specifying this purpose type classification in the subtype specification of the model code in the form of a two-letter shorthand. In the case of the Angel, the purpose type classification is Rescue, shortened to RS in the model code.
===Ship Class Naming===
The traditional naming of individual ships within a named class also posed some predicted difficulty, as it was determined to be impractical to build multiple identical duplications sequentially with different names. To solve this issue, Ponyworks began the practice of making the duplication of a ship the named class, with all spawned copies of the duplication being instances of the named class of ship. This change reduced the construction load of a class of ship into a single duplication, and served as a safeguard to prevent an entire new duplication needing to be constructed in the event of an instance of a class being sunk or otherwise lost during use.
==History==
===Construction===
The Angel was initially conceptualized on the 30th of March 2020, and envisioned to have a design and purpose similar to that of a hospital ship as a contribution for Project Blue Aid. The first prop of the hull was placed down later that same day.
===Completion===
The final pre-service work of the installation of visual elements and wire component testing was completed on the 8th of April 2020. Some physical testing was also preformed to ensure the design could float and maneuver while underway, among other basic physical checks and adjustments.
===Service Verification===
The Angel underwent a set of final public trials on the 9th of April 2020 to verify that the ship was fully functional and useful for service. The service verification was preformed in the live environment of Cat's Sandbox & RP Oasis, with the local public providing some additional trials to the verification process. Each trial was passed successfully, and the duplication model code PW Cw_RS_1a r1 "Angel Class" was admitted into official Ponyworks service in the same day.
Angel During Verification 1 r1.jpg|Angel seen during service verification
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