Expedition Frigates

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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
Prospect
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Outer Ring Excavations
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fittings
3
high slots
highs
0
launcher hardpoints
launchers
2
turret hardpoints
turrets
3
middle slots
mediums
4
low slots
lows
drones & cargo
No drone bay
150 m³
cargo capacity
cargo
defense
800 HP
shields
shield electromagnetic resistance
0
shield thermal resistance
20
shield kinetic resistance
40
shield explosive resistance
50
600 HP
armor
armor electromagnetic resistance
60
armor thermal resistance
35
armor kinetic resistance
25
armor explosive resistance
10
target & nav
20 km
max. targeting range
tgt. range
40 m
ship signature radius
sig. radius
380 m/sec
max. velocity
max. velocity
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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
Endurance
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Outer Ring Excavations
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fittings
3
high slots
highs
0
launcher hardpoints
launchers
1
turret hardpoints
turrets
4
middle slots
mediums
3
low slots
lows
drones & cargo
30 m³
drone capacity
drones
15 Mbit/sec
drone bandwidth
b/w
200 m³
cargo capacity
cargo
defense
1100 HP
shields
shield electromagnetic resistance
0
shield thermal resistance
20
shield kinetic resistance
40
shield explosive resistance
50
400 HP
armor
armor electromagnetic resistance
60
armor thermal resistance
35
armor kinetic resistance
25
armor explosive resistance
10
target & nav
20.00 km
max. targeting range
tgt. range
40 m
ship signature radius
sig. radius
420 m/sec
max. velocity
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.