Ships & Drones
The ten hulls, revive costs, equipment configs, drones and skins.
The ship ladder
Ten hulls, all bought with credits. In order: Phoenix (starter, free revive), Yamato, Defcom, Liberator, Piranha, Nostromo, Wing-X, Class-BB, Vengeance and the G-K2.
Each step up brings more hit points, more cargo and more room for equipment. Starter hulls mount one laser and one generator, mid hulls add a second generator, and the top hulls run two lasers and four generators. The HP jumps are big: a Piranha sits at 32,000 HP, a Vengeance at 280,000, and the G-K2 tops the chart at 356,000.
Two hulls break the pattern. The Wing-X is the hauler: a 1,000 cargo hold and top base speed, with modest armor. The Class-BB is the fortress: heavy armor and extras, slowest engine in the fleet.
- Prices climb from free to hundreds of millions. The ship ladder IS the credit sink.
Reviving
Every death offers respawning at your nearest faction base, for 2% of your hull's price in credits. In your own faction's sectors you can respawn at the nearest portal instead, for 7%. In enemy space, MEV-4 and MEV-5 there is no portal option: you wake up at base, far from your wreck.
Value Pack owners respawn free at both base and portal. The Phoenix costs nothing either way, which is why it is the ship you learn on: on a G-K2, dying without a pack is a bill you will remember.
Equipment and configs
Ships mount lasers, generators and extras. Generator sockets are universal: each one takes a shield generator or a speed generator, in any mix, so tank and speed builds come from the same slots.
Every ship has two equipment configs you can switch between: most pilots run a farm config and a fight config.
- Switching configs adjusts your HP and shield to the new setup. It is not damage, do not panic.
Combat drones
Drones fly in formation with your ship and carry real combat stats. A full wing is six: two Wasps, two Talons, one Sentinel and one Mule, each line with its own stat profile.
Drones come in marks II to IV, and your hull decides what you can field: bigger ships fly higher-mark drones. The top pieces drop in deep space and MEV-5, and enhancing them is its own art, covered under Ship Equipment.
Skins
Ship skins change your look and are purely cosmetic. Drone skins (Flax and Iris) reskin your whole drone wing the same way. Unwanted skins can be burned into cron stones, which is one of the two ways to get crons.
