Mandalay Evacuation and Sol Defence Builds?

[nanothargon]

I don't have a Mandalay yet, and the upcoming kerfuffle in Sol seems like a good opportunity.

I'm planning on two builds, one to evacuate as many passengers as possible, and a second to join in with the general tharg-bashing.

I have a lot of AX experience (solo medusa), but I think it's out of date now, with scythes and the various changes. So, probably Gauss-based. I've unlocked almost everything guardian.

Mandalay seems like a suboptimal but fun way to run thargoid blockades, and likewise, not the best AX ship but not terrible. I'm looking forward to the fast yaw especially, with gauss.

Anyone got some decent builds?

 

[Moirai]

Here's a revised build of one that I posted elsewhere for transferring refugees. Not an engineered build as such. Just made up of parts laying around on the FC. 60 eco seats, boost is good and it runs very cool (13-14% on thrusters and 15-17% in standard SC) and reasonably resilient.