Drake Corsair

Drake Interplanetary · Expedition · flight ready

The Drake Corsair is a expedition ship from Drake Interplanetary with a crew of 4 and 72 SCU of cargo. It moves at 190 m/s in SCM and 1,025 m/s in NAV mode, on 91,000 hull HP and 100,000 shield HP. In game it sells for 6,224,400 aUEC at New Deal - Teasa Spaceport - Lorville, or rents from 155,610 aUEC a day. On the pledge store it lists at $250.

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Overview

Crew: 4
Cargo: 72 SCU
Mass: 473,611 kg
Hull HP: 91,000
Shield HP: 100,000
Size class: 4
Length: 53 m
Beam: 30 m
Height: 25 m
Pledge (USD): $250

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

In-game price & where to buy

Type	aUEC	Terminal	System	Reported
Buy	6,224,400	New Deal - Teasa Spaceport - Lorville	Stanton	11d
Rent / day	155,610	Vantage Rentals - Lorville	Stanton	26d

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: 190 m/s
Max (NAV): 1,025 m/s
Boost fwd: 390 m/s
Boost back: 205 m/s
0 → SCM: 3.12 s
0 → max: 16.83 s
Pitch: 26 °/s
Yaw: 20 °/s
Roll: 44 °/s
Pitch (boost): 31.2 °/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 S4 S4 S4 S4

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.

S2power plant S2power plant S3shield generator S2cooler S2cooler S2quantum drive

Shield HP: 100,000
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: 263,400 km/s
Quantum range: 682 million km
Spool time: 7.3 s
10 Gm jump: 76 s

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

Signatures

IR: 7,441
EM (idle): 34,592
EM (max): 59,792

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 Expedition
SCM speed	190 m/s	166 / 234	5 / 13
Max (NAV) speed	1,025 m/s	164 / 234	8 / 13
Pitch rate	26 °/s	187 / 234	6 / 13
Max pilot-gun DPS (burst)	23,814 DPS	19 / 192	5 / 10
Max sustained pilot DPS (60 s)	17,126 DPS	19 / 192	5 / 10
Max pilot alpha (one volley)	67,900 damage	19 / 192	5 / 10
Hull HP	91,000 HP	50 / 234	5 / 13
Shield HP	100,000 HP	38 / 234	7 / 13
Cargo	72 SCU	46 / 118	4 / 13
In-game price	6,224,400 aUEC	92 / 140	4 / 8

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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Other Expedition ships

All hardpoints

paint S1
cockpit_flair_hang S1
cockpit_flair S1

QuantumDrive 1

quantum_drive S2

Power 2

power_plant_b S2
power_plant_a S2

Cooler 2

cooler_b S2
cooler_a S2

FlightController 1

controller_flight S1

MidRangeRadar 1

radar S2

GunTurret 6

cheek_weapon_left S4
cheek_weapon_right S4
chin_weapon_right S4
chin_weapon_left S4
weapon_wing_top S5
weapon_wing_bottom S5

MissileRack 4

wing_right_missile_mount_a S4
wing_right_missile_mount_b S4
wing_right_missile_mount_c S4
wing_right_missile_mount_d S4

Shield 1

shield_generator_a 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.