Expedition Frigates

See also: ORE Basic Ship and Skill Overview

Expedition Frigates are Tech II mining frigates specialized in activities other than basic ore mining.

Prospect

The Prospect is a Tech II variety of the Venture, and sports the ability to fit a Covert Ops Cloaking Device. It has an increased cargo and mining hold capacity, even more bonuses to mining yield, more tank, and 3 additional low slots, but no drone bay and no innate warp stabilization.

The Prospect is designed to operate in dangerous or hostile space. A Covert Ops Cloaking Device will allow it to warp while cloaked, making it very difficult to catch. However, it lacks even the rudimentary defense of a small drone bay that the Venture has, so if caught, it is completely helpless. It can't even handle any belt rats that might spawn without refitting.

The Prospect retains the Venture's bonus to gas cloud harvesting, and due to its larger mining hold, is the best ship in the game for collecting gas.

≡ Expedition Frigate: INFORMATION

RELATED UNI-WIKI REFERENCES EVE Online Ships Overview EXTERNAL LINKS Prospect on zKillboard Prospect on EVE Workbench Prospect on Janice Prospect on EVE Ref

Prospect fittings 3 highs 0 launchers 2 turrets 3 mediums 4 lows drones & cargo No drone bay 150 m³ cargo defense 800 HP 0 20 40 50 600 HP 60 35 25 10 target & nav 20 km tgt. range 40 m sig. radius 380 m/sec max. velocity S H I P   B O N U S E S Mining Frigate bonuses (per skill level): 5% bonus to Mining yield 5% reduction in Gas Cloud Scoop duration Expedition Frigates bonuses (per skill level): 5% bonus to Mining yield 5% reduction in ship signature radius Role Bonus: 100% bonus to Mining and Gas Cloud Scoop yield 100% reduction in Cloaking Devices CPU requirement • Can fit Covert Ops Cloaking Device and Covert Cynosural Field Generator • Cloak reactivation delay reduced to 5 seconds After the runaway success of the Venture mining frigate, ORE spun their growing frontier exploration and exploitation division, Outer Ring Prospecting, into a new subsidiary. The corporation’s first project was the development of a new line of Expedition frigates, designed to meet the needs of the riskiest and most lucrative harvesting operations. The Prospect combines improved asteroid mining systems with the Venture frame whose speed and agility made its predecessor famous. It is also the first ORE ship to take advantage of Covert Ops Cloaking Devices, allowing the Prospect to warp while cloaked for movement to and from asteroid fields in even the most hostile territories.

Endurance

The Endurance is a Tech II variety of the Venture, and has bonuses to Cloaking Devices. It has an increased cargo and mining hold, even more bonuses to mining and ice harvesting yield, more tank, and 2 additional low slots, but no innate warp stabilization.

The Endurance is designed to operate in dangerous or hostile space.

≡ Expedition Frigate: INFORMATION

RELATED UNI-WIKI REFERENCES EVE Online Ships Overview EXTERNAL LINKS Endurance on zKillboard Endurance on EVE Workbench Endurance on Janice Endurance on EVE Ref

Endurance fittings 3 highs 0 launchers 1 turrets 4 mediums 3 lows drones & cargo 30 m³ drones 15 Mbit/sec b/w 200 m³ cargo defense 1100 HP 0 20 40 50 400 HP 60 35 25 10 target & nav 20.00 km tgt. range 40 m sig. radius 420 m/sec max. velocity S H I P   B O N U S E S Mining Frigate bonuses (per skill level): 5% reduction in Ice Harvesting duration 5% bonus to Ore Mining yield Expedition Frigates bonuses (per skill level): 5% reduction in Ice Harvesting duration 4% bonus to all shield resistances Role Bonus: 300% bonus to Ore Mining yield 50% reduction in Ice Harvesting duration 50% reduction in Cloaking Devices CPU requirement • Cloak reactivation delay and targeting delay reduced to 5 seconds • No penalty to ship max velocity when using Cloaking Devices After the runaway success of the Venture mining frigate, ORE spun their growing frontier exploration and exploitation division, Outer Ring Prospecting, into a new subsidiary. The corporation’s first project was the development of a new line of Expedition frigates, designed to meet the needs of the riskiest and most lucrative harvesting operations. The Endurance is being released under ORE’s ‘Frostline’ branding and combines improved ice mining systems with the well-proven mining frigate frame that served so well as the basis of the Venture and Prospect classes. Unique subsystems and fittings, coupled with a new compact ice mining laser design, give the Endurance the unique ability to harvest ice from a frigate class hull. In addition to this, the creators of the Endurance managed to retain much of the stealth technology that Expedition frigates have become known for.