Crusader M2 Hercules Starlifter

Crusader Industries · Medium Freight · flight ready

The Crusader M2 Hercules Starlifter is a medium freight ship from Crusader Industries with a crew of 3 and 522 SCU of cargo. It moves at 160 m/s in SCM and 950 m/s in NAV mode, on 101,820 hull HP and 211,200 shield HP. In game it sells for 28,009,800 aUEC at New Deal - Teasa Spaceport - Lorville. On the pledge store it lists at $520.

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Overview

Crew: 3
Cargo: 522 SCU
Mass: 3,379,816 kg
Hull HP: 101,820
Shield HP: 211,200
Size class: 5
Length: 94 m
Beam: 70 m
Height: 23 m
Pledge (USD): $520

Which containers fit its 2 cargo grids, from 1 to 32 SCU.

In-game price & where to buy

Type	aUEC	Terminal	System	Reported
Buy	28,009,800	New Deal - Teasa Spaceport - Lorville	Stanton	11d
Buy	29,484,000	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: 160 m/s
Max (NAV): 950 m/s
Boost fwd: 320 m/s
Boost back: 170 m/s
0 → SCM: 2.35 s
0 → max: 13.96 s
Pitch: 20 °/s
Yaw: 18 °/s
Roll: 30 °/s
Pitch (boost): 30 °/s

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

Weapon fitting interactive

0 DPS burst

Fit a pilot gun to each hardpoint; the totals update live. Gun data from build 4.10.2-LIVE.12881860. Opens on the highest-burst gun per slot.

S5 S5

Burst: 0 DPS
Sustained (60 s): 0 DPS
Alpha (one volley): 0

Pilot-fired guns only, at the size each mount accepts. Guns inside turrets are left out on multi-crew ships, because the game data does not say which seat fires them. Sustained is the average damage per second over 60 seconds of holding the trigger: burst DPS times the share of that time the gun can fire, then capped by the magazine. For an energy gun the share is fire time / (fire time + recharge delay + recharge time), where fire time is the capacitor load divided by shots per second. For a gun with overheat data it is time to overheat / (time to overheat + cooldown). A ballistic magazine that empties inside the minute caps it at rounds x damage per shot / 60. The ship's shared weapon power pool is not modeled. Alpha is the damage of every fitted gun firing once. Gimbal tracking and missiles are not modeled. Your build is saved on this device and shareable by link.

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.

S3power plant S3power plant S3shield generator S3shield generator S3cooler S3cooler S3quantum drive

Shield HP: 211,200
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: 392,091 km/s
Quantum range: 171 million km
Spool time: 7.7 s
10 Gm jump: 99 s

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

Signatures

IR: 12,429
EM (idle): 50,290
EM (max): 79,970

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 Medium Freight
SCM speed	160 m/s	193 / 234	10 / 17
Max (NAV) speed	950 m/s	209 / 234	13 / 17
Pitch rate	20 °/s	207 / 234	15 / 17
Max pilot-gun DPS (burst)	18,750 DPS	23 / 192	5 / 13
Max sustained pilot DPS (60 s)	12,800 DPS	23 / 192	5 / 13
Max pilot alpha (one volley)	64,000 damage	23 / 192	5 / 13
Hull HP	101,820 HP	46 / 234	8 / 17
Shield HP	211,200 HP	8 / 234	1 / 17
Cargo	522 SCU	12 / 118	4 / 17
In-game price	28,009,800 aUEC	134 / 140	12 / 12

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 2

cooler_l S3
cooler_r S3

Power 2

power_plant_l S3
power_plant_r S3

QuantumDrive 1

quantum_drive S3

Shield 2

shield_generator_l S3
shield_generator_r S3

MidRangeRadar 1

radar S2

forward_left_remote_turret_seat_access S1–4
forward_right_remote_turret_seat_access S1–4
rear_left_remote_turret_seat_access S1–4
rear_right_remote_turret_seat_access S1–4
paint S1
cockpit_flair S1
cockpit_flair_hang S1
shield_generator_c S3

FlightController 1

controller_flight S1

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.