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A ship or spaceship in EVE Online is an entity used to traverse the heavens, battle enemy forces, ferry materials and products, provide logistical services along with many other uses. A ship may be piloted by a capsuleer(players) or non-player characters such as CONCORD, faction militaries, civilian industrialists, outlawed paramilitary and pirate forces.

Mechanics

Ships accelerate by using their engines, almost always located at the stern of the ship. They cannot travel at near-lightspeeds without the use of warp drives. Initiating warp requires an object with mass or feigned mass. The ship will acquire this object as a target and a use warp drive in conjunction with sub-lightspeed thrusters to accelerate through a warp tunnel.

"Military experts are calling this a cynosural field." -Journalist during the start of the Gallente-Caldari War in YC110

Ships can be built and stored in stations except for super-capital classes. Gates and wormholes are methods of travel that propel ships over great distances inaccessible through conventional means of travel. Capital class ships can use their built in jump drives to travel these great distances. A cynosural field is used to provide a target for the jump capable ships to lock onto.

The hitpoints of a ship come from its shield, armor and structure. Shields are absent from certain NPC vessels, however all capsuleer ships including capsules have all three defensive systems. These hitpoints are used for Tanking against incoming damage. Nearly all ships have module slots, allowing them to fit modules types such as(but not limited to) guns, repairers, plates, electronic warfare, cloaks, rigs and afterburners.

All ships have capacitor banks, similar to a gigantic battery. The engines charge these batteries and the accumulated energy is used to run modules and power the warp drive.

Certain ships have drone bays, specialized cargoholds, ship maintenance bays and fuel bays.

Categorization

Ships can be categorized in many ways, this section will cover the most basic methods.

SIZE CLASS

As ships increase in size they gain more hitpoints, theoretical damage and module slots. They sacrifice mobility and damage application against smaller targets. Remember: Bigger isn't always better in EVE. The sizes are as follows;

• Frigates: Incursus, Heron, Crucifier, Burst
• Destroyers: Algos, Corax, Coercer, Thrasher
• Cruisers: Thorax, Caracal, Maller, Scythe
• Battlecruisers: Myrmidon, Blackbird, Harbinger, Hurricane
• Battleships: Megathron, Rokh, Abaddon, Tempest
• Capitals: Rorqual, Anshar, Charon
  • Carriers: Thanatos, Chimera, Archon, Nidhoggur
  • Dreadnoughts: Moros, Phoenix, Revelation, Naglfar
• Supercapitals
  • Supercarriers: Nyx, Wyvern, Aeon, Hel
  • Titans: Erebus, Leviathan, Avatar, Ragnarok

Some ships that don't fit or are hard to pin down in this classification are certain Industrials and ORE Ships.

TECH AND FACTION LEVEL

Tech levels refer to the complexity and rarity of the materials required to build a ship. Faction level indicates the origin of the design. Navy faction means the factions with legal navies by CONCORD standards(Gallente, Caldari, Amarr, Minmatar) built the ship. Pirate faction means outlawed entities(Sansha, Serpentis, Guristas etc) have built the ship. The only exception to this are the Sisters of EVE who build pirate faction grade ships but are not outlawed. Here are some examples;

• Tech 1: Incursus, Corax, Omen, Hurricane
• Navy Faction: Brutix Navy Issue, Raven Navy Issue, Imperial Navy Slicer, Republic Fleet Firetail
• Tech 2: Ishtar, Hawk, Paladin, Sleipnir
• Pirate Faction: Vigilant, Gila, Bhaalgorn, Dramiel
• Tech 3: Proteus, Tengu, Legion, Loki