Drake Caterpillar

Drake Interplanetary · Medium Freight · flight ready

The Drake Caterpillar is a medium freight ship from Drake Interplanetary with a crew of 4 and 576 SCU of cargo. It moves at 130 m/s in SCM and 900 m/s in NAV mode, on 91,500 hull HP and 144,000 shield HP. In game it sells for 11,850,300 aUEC at New Deal - Teasa Spaceport - Lorville. On the pledge store it lists at $330.

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Overview

Crew: 4
Cargo: 576 SCU
Mass: 1,679,725 kg
Hull HP: 91,500
Shield HP: 144,000
Size class: 5
Length: 111.5 m
Beam: 39.5 m
Height: 13.4 m
Pledge (USD): $330

Which containers fit its 14 cargo grids, from 1 to 32 SCU.

In-game price & where to buy

Type	aUEC	Terminal	System	Reported
Buy	11,850,300	New Deal - Teasa Spaceport - Lorville	Stanton	11d

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: 130 m/s
Max (NAV): 900 m/s
Boost fwd: 300 m/s
Boost back: 120 m/s
0 → SCM: 3.14 s
0 → max: 21.76 s
Pitch: 16 °/s
Yaw: 16 °/s
Roll: 25 °/s
Pitch (boost): 19.2 °/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.

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

Shield HP: 144,000
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: 154 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: 12,912
EM (idle): 34,853
EM (max): 63,693

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	130 m/s	221 / 234	17 / 17
Max (NAV) speed	900 m/s	219 / 234	17 / 17
Pitch rate	16 °/s	217 / 234	17 / 17
Hull HP	91,500 HP	47 / 234	9 / 17
Shield HP	144,000 HP	17 / 234	3 / 17
Cargo	576 SCU	9 / 118	3 / 17
In-game price	11,850,300 aUEC	119 / 140	9 / 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

FlightController 1

controller_flight S1

avionics_1 S1
paint S1
ping S0
controller_missile S0

Cooler 2

cooler_right S3
cooler_left S3

Power 1

power_plant S3

QuantumDrive 1

quantum_drive S3

MidRangeRadar 1

radar_turret_bottom S2

Shield 2

shield_generator_left S3
shield_generator_right S3

FuelController 1

controller_fuel S1

DockingCollar 1

fuel_port S1

AirTrafficController 1

air_traffic_controller S1

UNDEFINED 1

door_state_relay S1

LifeSupportGenerator 1

lifesupport S3

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.