Crusader Ares Star Fighter Ion

Crusader Industries · Heavy Fighter · flight ready

The Crusader Ares Star Fighter Ion is a heavy fighter ship from Crusader Industries with a crew of 1. It moves at 205 m/s in SCM and 1,050 m/s in NAV mode, on 38,600 hull HP and 21,120 shield HP. In game it sells for 4,725,000 aUEC at New Deal - Crusader Showroom - Orison. On the pledge store it lists at $250.

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Overview

Crew: 1
Cargo: 0 SCU
Mass: 372,569 kg
Hull HP: 38,600
Shield HP: 21,120
Size class: 3
Length: 30 m
Beam: 27 m
Height: 6 m
Pledge (USD): $250

In-game price & where to buy

Type	aUEC	Terminal	System	Reported
Buy	4,725,000	New Deal - Crusader Showroom - Orison	Stanton	2d

Prices as reported to UEX Corp, fetched 28 Oct 2026; crowd-sourced, so they can differ by shard and drift between reports. The Reported column is the age of each report.

Flight performance

SCM speed: 205 m/s
Max (NAV): 1,050 m/s
Boost fwd: 385 m/s
Boost back: 210 m/s
0 → SCM: 2.33 s
0 → max: 11.96 s
Pitch: 36 °/s
Yaw: 36 °/s
Roll: 105 °/s
Pitch (boost): 43.2 °/s

Acceleration and boosted handling are the numbers most loadout tools skip; they decide fights as much as DPS.

Component fitting interactive

Swap the shield generators, power plant, coolers and quantum drive. Shield, power, cooling and quantum figures below update with the fit. Component data from build 4.10.2-LIVE.12881860.

S2power plant S2power plant S2shield generator S2shield generator S2cooler S2cooler S2cooler S2quantum drive

Shield HP: 21,120
Shield regen: – HP/s
Power requested: – of – segments
Cooling requested: – of – segments

Shield HP adds the strongest 2 generators, because this ship powers at most 2 at once (its shield power pool). Power and cooling are what the ship requests with shields up: the rest of the ship as the game data gives it, plus the fitted shields and coolers at their maximum draw. Requests above supply are normal; the in-game power pips decide what runs. Quantum range is the ship's quantum fuel divided by the fitted drive's fuel use. These relations were checked against every stock ship in the data before use. Saved on this device and shareable by link together with the gun build.

Quantum travel

Quantum speed: 203,194 km/s
Quantum range: 285 million km
Spool time: 6.6 s
10 Gm jump: 77 s

With the stock quantum drive. Fit another drive above and these figures follow it.

Signatures

IR: 11,273
EM (idle): 44,995
EM (max): 67,995

Infrared and electromagnetic emission with the stock loadout. Lower is harder to detect and lock.

How it compares

Metric	Value	Rank of all ships	Rank in Heavy Fighter
SCM speed	205 m/s	133 / 234	20 / 23
Max (NAV) speed	1,050 m/s	153 / 234	19 / 23
Pitch rate	36 °/s	139 / 234	19 / 23
Hull HP	38,600 HP	98 / 234	17 / 23
Shield HP	21,120 HP	52 / 234	1 / 23
In-game price	4,725,000 aUEC	80 / 140	1 / 11

Rank 1 is best (highest, or cheapest for price) among ships that carry that figure in this build's data. Full lists: ship rankings.

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All hardpoints

Cooler 3

cooler_03 S2
cooler_02 S2
cooler_01 S2

Shield 2

shield_generator_A S2
shield_generator_B S2

QuantumDrive 1

quantum_drive S2

paint S1
cockpit_flair S1

MissileRack 2

missile_launcher_right_s05 S5
missile_launcher_left_s05 S5

Door 1

gun_rack S1

FlightController 1

controller_flight S1

MidRangeRadar 1

radar S2

Power 2

powerplant_02 S2
powerplant_01 S2

Full component slots (shields, coolers, power plant, quantum drive) shown above; interactive fitting for those is coming. The weapon DPS fitter is live higher on this page.