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Large Gyroscope on Steroids

Many time I build a large ship I find myself cramming as many of these weak little gyroscopes in as possible just to get some mobility out of it. So I made one that is the size of a Large Reactor that provides 243x more force than the stock one.
Reasoning:

• A Large Reactor is 3x3x3, or 27 blocks in volume.
  
• The small gyroscope's moment of inertia is m(r^2) for simplicity sake. For a 3x3, the mass scales by the cube but the radius scales linearly, so we get 27*m*(3*r^2) = 27*9*m*(r^2) = 243*m*(r^2)

Function: 3x3 Gyroscope
Available on: Large & Small Ships
Survival?: Yes

To Do: Remodel/Retexture, get panel working

Large Ship:
Steel Plate: 22500
Construction Component: 1000
Large Tube: 100
Motor: 30
Computer: 10
Small Ship:
Steel Plate: 700
Construction Component: 130
Large Tube: 25
Motor: 10
Computer: 6

Power Requirement:
Large: 1.25 MW
Small: 25 KW


NOTE: Very powerful, only use on ships where you would need more than 100 stock Gyros or else you may shred your landing gear

Version:
1.0 - First Publish
1.1 - Balanced power consumption to 1.25MW/25KW
1.2 - Reworked force thanks to Phaeroth pointing out my flawed physics
1.3 - Bumped up # of steel plates and tubes for large ship version