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The Thorax is a gunboat, designed to use hybrid turrets.
The Thorax is a gunboat, designed to use hybrid turrets.


In PvP the it is most commonly flown as a hard-hitting blaster boat. With its bonuses for damage and tracking, 50mb drone bandwidth and very respectable speed for a cruiser hull, a blaster Thorax can muster lots of fast-moving DPS even in the hands of a novice pilot, and can apply that DPS to a wide range of small and large targetes. Such fits do not, though, tank especially well, and tend to live briefly (albeit sometimes gloriously).
In PvP it is most commonly flown as a hard-hitting blaster boat. With its bonuses for damage and tracking, 50mb drone bandwidth and very respectable speed for a cruiser hull, a blaster Thorax can muster lots of fast-moving DPS even in the hands of a novice pilot, and can apply that DPS to a wide range of small and large targetes. Such fits do not, though, tank especially well, and tend to live briefly (albeit sometimes gloriously).


The Thorax's speed also opens up the possibility of kiting railgun fits, though these are seen more rarely.
The Thorax's speed also opens up the possibility of kiting railgun fits, though these are seen more rarely.