Ship Builds & Load Outs Beluga Medical Frigate

[xGhost91x]

Hey everyone.

I've spent most of my time in Elite as an explorer and I'm looking to switch it up a bit when I get back from my current exploration endeavor.
I'm interested in fitting a search and rescue/space ambulance style Beluga and was wondering if I may get some suggestions. I'd like to use cargo racks (for escape pods and medicine delivery), passenger cabins (for station evacuations), collector limpets, and a ship launched fighter (I won't be carrying any weapons, so this will act as my defense. Plus, I could use the SLF to distract Thargoids while I snatch escape pods from them),
Is there any way that I can combine these into a useable medical vessel? If so, would anyone happen to have a link to a build?

o7 Commanders!

 

[XOSHI]

Well with 3.3 The Beluga will be indeed a great choice for this task, as, even if it's theoretical abilitys are still quite limited, it has, since the "passanger-cabins-only" restriction on the Saud Kruger ships are getting removed, more than enough optional internals for this.

You can easily put 2 c6 cargo racks (for 128ts of cargo) and 2c6 Passanger cabins in it, while the 4! c3s are great spots for limpet-controllers of all kind you need.
Remains the c4, for a SRV (to save those who got strandet on a surface) and the both c5s for a shield and a fighter hangar.

Also the Beluga has a pretty decent HP-placement for a non-fighter ship.
So you can put a battery of 3 guardian gauss canons under the nose for a punch, no 'Goid ever forgets (just don't shoot to often, the Beluga doesn't like heat) and have still space for 2 AX missile/MC turrets.
And with 6 utility mounts, you can also pack a AX scanner, a SFN, as well as 2 shieldboosters, a PD (don't know if you need this, but you have space, so why not?) and a heat sink (you'll definitly need this one).

In the end it could look like this.

For sure, a Vette or a Conda or a T10 could easily fullfill this role better, but hey, they got a lot less style.

 

[xGhost91x]

Very nice! I forgot to mention that I'll need a fuel scoop as well, so I need to figure out a way to fit that on there too.