Hulk

Outer Ring Excavations	Outer Ring Excavations
	Exhumers
	Covetor Class

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Efficiency is what separates an amateur from an entrepreneur.

– Outer Ring Prospecting CEO Obelen Cune

The exhumer is the second generation of mining vessels created by ORE. Exhumers, like their mining barge cousins, were each created to excel at a specific function, the Hulk's being mining yield and mining laser range. The additional yield comes at a price, as the Hulk has weaker defenses and a smaller ore bay than the other exhumers.

Exhumers are equipped with electronic subsystems specifically designed to accommodate Strip Mining and Ice Harvesting modules.

SHIP BONUSES

Mining Barge bonuses (per skill level):
3% bonus in Strip Miner yield
6% bonus to Strip Miner and Ice Harvester range
3% reduction Ice and Gas Harvester duration
Exhumers bonuses (per skill level):
4% bonus to all shield resistances
6% bonus to Strip Miner yield
3% reduction in Strip Miner and Gas Harvester duration
4% reduction in Ice Harvester duration
Role Bonus:
25% reduction in Strip Miner and Ice Harvester activation cost
30% reduction in Ice and Gas Harvester duration
15% reduction in Strip Miner Duration

Required Skills

Exhumers I41m
- Spaceship Command IV1d 1h 8m
- Industry V5d 22h 13m
- Astrogeology V17d 18h 40m
  - Science IV1d 1h 8m
  - Mining IV1d 1h 8m
Mining Barge V23d 16h 53m
- Astrogeology III13h 20m
  - Science IV1d 1h 8m
  - Mining IV1d 1h 8m
- Industry V5d 22h 13m
- Mining Frigate III8h 53m
  - Spaceship Command I8m

Training Time what's this?

50d 22h 47m 10s

Estimated training time only for the listed skills based on zero implants and without neural remaps.

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Ship Attributes

Fittings	Powergrid 110 MW CPU 310 tf Capacitor 625 GJ High 2 Launchers 0 Turrets 0 Medium 4 Low 3 Rig 2 medium Calibration 400

Navigation	Max Velocity 160 m/sec Inertia Modifier 0.6 Warp Speed 3.5 AU/s Base Time to Warp 12.48 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 50 m³ Drone Bandwidth 50 Mbit/sec

Targeting	Max Tgt. Range 55 km Max Locked Targets 8 Magnetometric Sensor 13 points Sig. Radius 200 m Scan Res. 660 mm

Structure	Structure Hitpoints 4,500 HP Mass 15,000,000 kg Volume 150,000 m³ Cargo Capacity 350 m³ Mining Capacity 11,500 m³

Armor	Armor Hitpoints 3,000 HP Armor Resistances EM 60 THR 35 KIN 25 EXP 10

Shields	Shield Capacity 4,500 HP Shield Resistances EM 0 THR 20 KIN 40 EXP 50

Summary

The Hulk has the greatest yield out of all the exhumers, but at the cost of the lowest tank and smallest mining hold. As a result, it is best to use the Hulk with fleet support so as to mitigate its weaknesses and allow you to leverage its superior extraction rate. A tank can be fitted, but it is still possible to gank even a maxed Hulk for profit with the correct ship in some areas of highsec, although it's more than able to handle most NPC rats.

Skills

Further information about additional or recommended skills to pilot Hulk for a specific or its common role(s) can be written here.

Tactics

Due to how vulnerable and cumbersome the exhumers are, it is ill-advised to travel between stargates in lowsec in one, as they make for very juicy targets. Instead, a good idea is to transport your Hulk packaged in a hauler, which raises less (albeit still some) suspicion.
- A Badger, even at base skills, has a capacity of 3900m3, allowing it to carry a packaged mining frigate, barge, and even an exhumer, and still have enough cargo space for its modules, can perform the cloak trick, and when designed well, can align in under 6 seconds. Beware however, that when packaging a ship, all its rigs are destroyed, so either use cheap Tech I rigs or design your ship around not using them.

Travel Fit

The Hulk, like its T1 cousin the Covetor, has the fastest align-time of the Exhumers. With inertial stabilizers and decent skills, it can enter warp in under 5 seconds. With an attentive pilot, the Hulk can realistically use a travel fit to travel in low sec space using the Cloak Trick, and with top skills, skill implants and a proper travel fitting, it can even use the Cloak Trick using only an Afterburner instead of a Microwarp Drive, which allows it to enter warp even faster than with a MWD by about 2 seconds. Overheating the Afterburner makes high skills and implants less necessary -- just be sure to bring plenty of nanite repair paste especially if you are travelling far from stations with repair services.

Whenever harvesting resources in a potentially dangerous system without any accessible stations, it's a good idea to have a strong Safe Spot, and to carry around at least 2 mobile depots, one of which you leave at the safe spot to warp back to in order to refit to a travel fit as necessary.

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Patch History

A long, long time ago...
2024-11-26 Version 22.02 Release 2024-11-26.1 Patch Notes Max Locked Targets improved from 6 to 8