Drake Cutter

Drake Interplanetary · Starter · Pathfinder · flight ready

The Drake Cutter is a starter ship from Drake Interplanetary with a crew of 1 and 4 SCU of cargo. It moves at 180 m/s in SCM and 1,010 m/s in NAV mode, on 17,100 hull HP and 2,160 shield HP. In game it sells for 603,288 aUEC at New Deal - Teasa Spaceport - Lorville, or rents from 9,050 aUEC a day. On the pledge store it lists at $45.

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Overview

Crew: 1
Cargo: 4 SCU
Mass: 89,914 kg
Hull HP: 17,100
Shield HP: 2,160
Size class: 2
Length: 20 m
Beam: 16 m
Height: 6 m
Pledge (USD): $45

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

In-game price & where to buy

Type	aUEC	Terminal	System	Reported
Buy	603,288	New Deal - Teasa Spaceport - Lorville	Stanton	11d
Buy	635,040	Teach's Ship Shop - Levski	Nyx	16d
Rent / day	9,050	Traveler Rentals - Cargo Center - Everus Harbor	Stanton	8h
Rent / day	9,050	Traveler Rentals - Cargo Center - Pyro Gateway (Stanton)	Stanton	7d
Rent / day	9,525	Teach's Rentals - Levski	Nyx	16d
Rent / day	9,525	Traveler Rentals - Cargo Center - Port Tressler	Stanton	42d
Rent / day	9,525	Traveler Rentals - Stanton Gateway (Nyx)	Nyx	13d
Rent / day	9,526	Traveler Rentals - August Dunlow Spaceport - Orison	Stanton	17d
Rent / day	9,526	Traveler Rentals - Cargo Center - Baijini Point	Stanton	59d
Rent / day	9,526	Traveler Rentals - Cargo Center - Nyx Gateway (Stanton)	Stanton	49d
Rent / day	9,526	Traveler Rentals - Cargo Center - Seraphim	Stanton	55d
Rent / day	9,526	Traveler Rentals - Cargo Center - Stanton Gateway (Pyro)	Pyro	7d

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. Showing the 10 cheapest of 15 rental terminals.

Flight performance

SCM speed: 180 m/s
Max (NAV): 1,010 m/s
Boost fwd: 380 m/s
Boost back: 160 m/s
0 → SCM: 14.05 s
0 → max: 78.84 s
Pitch: 36 °/s
Yaw: 36 °/s
Roll: 100 °/s
Pitch (boost): 43.2 °/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.

S2 S2

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

Pilot-fired guns only, at the size each mount accepts. This is a single-seat ship, so guns in its turrets count too. 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.

S1power plant S1shield generator S1cooler S1quantum drive

Shield HP: 2,160
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: 263,040 km/s
Quantum range: 136 million km
Spool time: 4.8 s
10 Gm jump: 53 s

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

Signatures

IR: 3,662
EM (idle): 10,294
EM (max): 31,144

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 Starter
SCM speed	180 m/s	172 / 234	13 / 13
Max (NAV) speed	1,010 m/s	169 / 234	10 / 13
Pitch rate	36 °/s	139 / 234	13 / 13
Max pilot-gun DPS (burst)	1,320 DPS	156 / 192	8 / 13
Max sustained pilot DPS (60 s)	1,246 DPS	156 / 192	8 / 13
Max pilot alpha (one volley)	1,584 damage	156 / 192	8 / 13
Hull HP	17,100 HP	138 / 234	4 / 13
Shield HP	2,160 HP	209 / 234	8 / 13
Cargo	4 SCU	97 / 118	6 / 10
In-game price	603,288 aUEC	9 / 140	1 / 7

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

Related ships

Head to head

Other Starter ships

All hardpoints

Shield 1

shield_generator S1

MidRangeRadar 1

radar S1

QuantumDrive 1

quantum_drive S1

Power 1

power_plant S1

gravity_gen S1
battery S1
flair_hanging S1
cockpit_flair S1
paint S1
radar_helper S0
scanner S0

Cooler 1

cooler S1

MissileRack 2

missile_right S2
missile_left S2

Misc 1

avionics S1

GunTurret 2

weapon_right S2
weapon_left 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.