Rorqual

Rorqual 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 Capital Industrial Ships skill bonuses: -5% reduction in fuel consumption for industrial cores per level 5% 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. Structure Structure Hitpoints 250,000 HP Max Velocity 60 m/sec Inertia Modifier 0.05 Plasma Propulsion Strength 6 points Corporate Hangar Capacity 30000 m3 Fuel Bay Capacity 10000 m3 Ore Hold Capacity 250000 m3 Mass 1,180,000,000 kg Volume 1.45E+7 m3 Capacity 40000 m3 Fitting powergrid Output 305,000 MW Low Slots 3 Med Slots 7 High Slots 6 CPU Output 920 tf Calibration 400 points Upgrade Hardpoints 3 Capacitor Recharge time 3.9E+6 s Capacitor Capacity 54560 GJ Targeting Maximum Targeting Range 160 km Max Locked Targets 7 Magnetometric Sensor Strength 115 points Signature Radius 4.50 km Scan Resolution 75 mm Shield Shield Capacity 90000 HP Shield Em Damage Resistance 0 % Shield Explosive Damage Resistance 50 % Shield Kinetic Damage Resistance 40 % Shield Thermal Damage Resistance 20 % Shield recharge time 1.44E+7 s Armor Armor Hitpoints 30,000 HP Armor Em Damage Resistance 50 % Armor Explosive Damage Resistance 10 % Armor Kinetic Damage Resistance 35 % Armor Thermal Damage Resistance 35 % Drones Drone Capacity 300 m3 Drone Bandwidth 125 Mbit/sec Miscellaneous CPU Need Bonus -99 % max Active Command Relays Bonus 2 Maximum Operational Distance 5 km Maximum Concurrent Operational Users 10 Jump Drive Fuel Need Oxygen Isotopes Maximum Jump Range 5 ly Jump Drive Consumption Amount 1000 Jump Drive Capacitor Need 0.95 % Ship Maintenance Bay Capacity 1000000 m3 Maximum Jump Clones 6 Rig Size Large

Blueprint Rorqual Blueprint Required skills Primary Skill required Capital Industrial Ships I Advanced Spaceship Command V Spaceship Command V Mining Barge V Astrogeology III Science IV Mining IV Industry V Capital Ships II Advanced Spaceship Command V Spaceship Command V Secondary Skill required Capital Ships II Advanced Spaceship Command V Spaceship Command V Tertiary Skill required Jump Drive Operation I Navigation V Warp Drive Operation V Navigation I Science V Material Requirements Skill / Mechanic Capital Ship Construction 4 Commodity / Capital Construction Components Capital Propulsion Engine 9 Capital Sensor Cluster 9 Capital Armor Plates 7 Capital Capacitor Battery 11 Capital Power Generator 11 Capital Shield Emitter 9 Capital Jump Drive 11 Capital Cargo Bay 22 Capital Drone Bay 6 Capital Computer System 33 Capital Construction Parts 44 Capital Clone Vat Bay 33 Capital Ship Maintenance Bay 33 Capital Corporate Hangar Bay 17 Waste Waste Factor 10%

The Rorqual is a Capital-class mining support and deployment platform conceived by CCP in 2007 to address the need for low-security and deep lawless-space (0.0) mining operations. Like other Capital-class vessels (apart from Freighters), it cannot enter high-security systems.

With its ability to fit Capital Tractor Beams (which have a 200 kilometer range and 3000 m/s movement speed) and to compress ore and ice, it provides centralized mining support and transport. With the ability to carry several mining vessels and Jump Clones to a remote location via Jump Drive, its role as a mobile platform is unsurpassed. Providing gang bonuses is another branch of the Rorqual's usefulness, allowing a specialized pilot to provide the highest bonuses available to miners in the game.

Many corporations are reluctant to place such a valuable ship on the front line for a mining operation, unless defended by a sizable force. POS safe-spotting is a common practice where the Rorqual sits just outside a Starbase's shields, where it is available for bonuses and compression, but is not in immediate danger as it would be in the belts. Because of its ability to carry large amounts of ore in compressed form, it is often used as an intermediate transport when a Jump Freighter is not available.

Rorqual features:

• Ore and Ice compression
• Clone Vat Bay (only seen otherwise on Motherships and Titans)
• Capital-class tanking ability
• Capital Tractor Beam
• Corporate Hangar
• Ship Maintenance Bay (Can be used to fit any ship on the field, but can only store Mining vessels)

A comprehensive listing of the various compressions and their calculations written by Halada is available in this mining guide. Download a copy from this thread.

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Rorqual 1

Rorqual 2