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 skill bonuses: -5% reduction in fuel consumption for industrial cores per level 10% bonus to effectiveness of mining foreman gang links per level when in deployed mode 50% bonus to the range of Capital Shield Transporters per level. 20% bonus to drone damage and hitpoints per level.Role Bonuses: 900% bonus to the range of survey scanners 200% bonus to the range of cargo scanners 99% reduction in CPU need for Gang Link modules Can fit Clone Vat Bay Can use 3 Gang Link modules simultaneously.
Required Skills
Capital Industrial Ships I1h 40m
Mining Barge V23d 16h 53m
Advanced Spaceship Command V29d 15h 6m
Capital Ships II11h
Capital Ships II11h
Advanced Spaceship Command V29d 15h 6m
Jump Drive Operation I41m
Science V5d 22h 13m
Navigation V5d 22h 13m
Warp Drive Operation V5d 22h 13m
Training Time what's this?
101d 18h 9m
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/s
Inertia Modifier
0.05
Warp Speed
1.2 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 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
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 can be used as a booster and support ship in an asteroid belt, using its capital tractor beams to pull in jetcans while fitting mining gang links to boost productivity. However, this role has been more or less taken over by the Orca, which can do all of that and is a much less expensive ship to risk out in the open. The Rorqual's other role, which cannot be done by any other ship, is to use its industrial core to compress ores to make them easier to transport from null sec space to more efficient refining facilities in low and high sec.
Skills
Further information about additional or recommended skills to pilot Rorqual for a specific or it's common role(s) can be written here.
Fitting
No tagged fittings for Rorqual.
Tactics
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