The Rorqual was conceived and designed by Outer Ring Excavations in response to a growing need for capital industry platforms with the ability to support and sustain large-scale mining operations in uninhabited areas of space.
To that end, the Rorqual's primary strength lies in its ability to grind raw ores into particles of smaller size than possible before, while still maintaining their distinctive molecular structure. This means the vessel is able to carry vast amounts of ore in compressed form.
Additionally, the Rorqual is able to fit a capital tractor beam unit, capable of pulling in cargo containers from far greater distances and at far greater speeds than smaller beams can. It also possesses a sizeable drone bay, jump drive capability and the capacity to fit a clone vat bay. This combination of elements makes the Rorqual the ideal nexus to build deep space mining operations around.
Due to its specialization towards industrial operations, its ship maintenance bay is able to accommodate only industrial ships, mining barges and their tech 2 variants
SHIP BONUSES
Capital Industrial Ships bonuses (per skill level): 5% reduction in fuel consumption for Industrial Core 10% bonus to Mining Foreman Links effectiveness when using Industrial Core 50% bonus to Capital Remote Shield Booster range 20% bonus to Drone hitpoints and damage Role Bonus: 900% bonus to Survey Scanner range 200% bonus to Cargo Scanners range • Can fit Industrial Core • Can fit Clone Vat Bay • Can use 3 Warfare Link modules simultaneously 90% reduction to effective distance traveled for jump fatigue
Estimated training time only for the listed skills based on zero implants and without neural remaps.
Grouping
▪ Variations
none
Ship Attributes
Fittings
Powergrid
305,000 MW
CPU
920 tf
Capacitor
54,560 GJ
High
6
Launchers
0
Turrets
0
Medium
7
Low
3
Rig
3
capital
Calibration
400
Navigation
Max Velocity
60 m/sec
Inertia Modifier
0.05
Warp Speed
1.5 AU/s
Base Time to Warp
81.79 s
what's this?
Base Time to Warp is essentially the time needed for this ship to align and accelerate until it reaches 75% of its top speed and goes to warp. The time displayed here is the base calculated time with no account for any warp related skills, modules or any other effects.
Drones
Drone Capacity
300 m³
Drone Bandwidth
125 Mbit/sec
Targeting
Max Tgt. Range
160.00 km
Max Locked Targets
7
Magnetometric Sensor
115 points
Sig. Radius
4,500 m
Scan Res.
75 mm
Structure
Structure Hitpoints
250,000 HP
Mass
1,180,000,000 kg
Volume
14,500,000 m³
Cargo Capacity
40,000 m³
Ore Capacity
250,000 m³
Armor
Armor Hitpoints
30,000 HP
Armor Resistances
EM
50
THR
35
KIN
35
EXP
10
Shields
Shield Capacity
90,000 HP
Shield Resistances
EM
0
THR
20
KIN
40
EXP
50
Summary
The Rorqual is a capital industrial ship. It's typical role is supporting mining operations by providing Mining Foreman ganglinks and compressing ore. Due to its inability to enter highsec its fleet boosting role is taken over by the Orca, although the improvements to yield are less.
It has the ability to fit a capital tractor beam which could be used in conjunction with 'Jet Can' mining, which allow it to pull cargo containers of ore to it before compression, but due to the high price of the Rorqual many favour keeping them within the relative safety of a POS. Instead they opt for using less expensive ships for the tractor beaming of cans (Noctis), and using a industrial ship or freighter to pick up the ore. The Rorqual does have the ability to compress ore whilst running its industrial core. Compression is important as it reduces the volume of significantly. The for large mining operations with higher volumes of ore Rorqual's compression ability is but overshadowed by the compression array. The compression array is a structure that can be anchored within a POS and in comparison can hold considerably larger quantities of ore, allowing for larger quantities of ore to be compressed at once.
The Rorqual is a very capable ship with many tools to assist miners but with better alternatives available many miners only use Rorquals for its bonus to mining foreman links.
Skills
Further information about additional or recommended skills to pilot Rorqual for a specific or it's common role(s) can be written here.
