Ships

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A ship is a hull plus whatever is fitted to it. There are 20 hulls a captain can fly, all of them cruisers. A hull sets the shape of the fitting grid, the base armor, hull, heat and handling, and how much cargo is protected when the ship is lost.

Hulls

Bare hulls at Standard quality. Click a column to sort.

Hull	Build rating	Effective health	Armor	Hull	Max velocity (m/s)	Mass (t)	Max heat (GJ)	Battery	Subsystem	Propulsion	Core	Safety hold
Achamoth	2,666	4,271	2,400	800	264.5	5.8	500	3	3	4	24	2
Acolyte	2,310	3,460	2,000	600	307	4	550	3	4	2	20	0
Augr	2,730	4,425	2,520	800	251.3	5.8	500	3	4	2	26	2
Beltane	2,340	2,841	1,750	400	321.2	4	450	4	2	4	19	2
Condor	2,630	3,636	2,138	600	305	4.4	500	4	3	3	23	2
Eidolon	2,150	2,675	1,650	375	342.4	3.6	425	3	2	4	18	0
Enforcer	2,700	3,780	2,250	600	290.5	4.6	500	4	3	3	24	2
Jackal	2,270	2,728	1,663	400	337.2	3.9	450	4	2	4	18	2
Legion	2,630	3,780	2,250	600	290.5	4.4	500	4	3	3	23	2
Mammon	2,800	4,271	2,400	800	264.5	6.1	500	3	4	2	27	2
Orstrog	2,420	3,716	2,200	600	283.4	4.5	475	4	3	3	20	2
Praetor	2,426	4,869	2,750	900	276.3	4.7	550	3	3	2	23	2
Roc	2,426	4,936	2,750	945	276.3	5	578	3	3	2	23	2
Rune	2,270	2,953	1,838	400	305.1	3.9	450	4	2	4	18	2
Scarab	2,560	3,825	2,250	630	290.5	4.6	525	4	3	3	22	2
Seraph	2,200	2,841	1,750	400	321.2	3.9	450	4	2	4	17	2
Skoll	2,220	2,675	1,650	375	342.4	3.7	425	3	2	4	19	2
Starrk	2,380	3,504	2,000	630	307	4.2	578	3	4	2	21	0
Typhon	2,496	4,869	2,750	900	276.3	5	550	3	3	2	24	2
Vektr	2,420	3,716	2,200	600	283.4	4.8	475	4	3	3	20	2

Every hull has 24 cargo slots, 10 reactor control rods and 30 minutes of reactor fuel. See Cargo, Heat and Reactor fuel.

The starter ship

Every new captain is issued a Seraph at Faction quality, already fitted. If you are left without a hull in a hub, you are issued another. Faction quality means 15% less hull, armor and heat capacity, and Faction-quality gear is destroyed when the ship is lost: it never drops as loot. See Rarity and quality.

Building a hull

Hulls do not drop. A hull is built at the forge from its blueprint.

• Where. In a hub. The blueprint goes on the hub's workbench and the materials come from the hub stash.
• Cost. The recipe's materials and nothing else. A rarer blueprint needs more of them: Advanced 1.1 times, Prototype 1.2 times, Artifact 1.5 times.
• Uses. Queuing a build spends one blueprint use. Hull blueprints have 3, 4 or 5.
• Quality. Rolled when the build finishes, from the blueprint's research tier. Higher tiers move the odds from Flawed toward Superior, and Masterwork becomes possible from tier 3.
• Rarity. Copied from the blueprint, which rolled its own rarity when it dropped.

Research

A blueprint starts at tier 1 and can be researched up to tier 5. Each step costs ORE up front: the hull's build rating times the current tier times 12.5%. Taking a hull blueprint from tier 1 to tier 5 costs 1.25 times the hull's build rating in ORE.

From the quartermaster

The two faction quartermasters stock hull blueprints for their own members, by rank, paid in Merits. Everything a quartermaster sells is faction issue: the blueprint cannot be researched, and the hull it builds is always Faction quality.

Quartermaster	From rank	Hull blueprints
Ganden	Recruit	Condor, Legion, Scarab
Ganden	Legionary	Praetor, Roc, Typhon
Ganden	Sergeant	Beltane
TZHAL	Recruit	Jackal, Rune, Seraph
TZHAL	Legionary	Enforcer
TZHAL	Sergeant	Orstrog, Vektr

New hulls

When the game adds a hull, start its page here.