Imperial Clipper: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 20:57, 11 March 2018

The Imperial Clipper is the quintessential Imperial ship. It epitomises elegance of form while delivering speed and agility. Because of its balance of speed, luxury and strength it is used for transporting valuable items and personnel of importance across the Empire. With the navy ships these can come as standard, and not available for civilian, or export models.

— In-Game Description

The Imperial Clipper, built by Gutamaya, is one of the Empire's ships and thus are generally sold at Stations that are aligned with the Empire. To purchase the Imperial Clipper players must have earned the rank of Baron with the Imperial Navy.

This ship is quite popular with pirates, traders, and some combat pilots. It is a reasonable pirate ship due to the large cargo capacity and heavy armament. Traders may find this ship appealing due to its superb cargo capacity and defensive capability; while it is more expensive than the Lakon Type-7 it can easily defend itself against a pirate.

Pilots of any profession may appreciate its speed; with fully upgraded Thrusters, it is comparable to that of smaller ships such as the Cobra MkIII and the Imperial Eagle. Additionally, its pitch rotation and yaw speed are higher than most ships, making it feel like a very hefty, weighted-down Eagle with a boost speed that is higher than that of the Viper. Its only manoeuvering drawback, and likely the reason for its low overall agility rating, is its poor lateral thruster capability; the vertical-lateral thrusters are very weak compared to those of other ships. This weakness, combined with very weak shields for its size and wing-mounted hardpoints ill-suited for fixed weapons, limits the Imperial Clipper's efficiency as a PvP combat ship even if the shields are upgraded to maximum. The Imperial Clipper is also currently the fourth widest ship controllable by players, which may pose a challenge with docking.

Speed and manoeuvrability fall off more heavily when loaded than other ships, bringing it back to more common speeds and turn rates when hauling cargo.

Both the ships interior and exterior are luxurious in design, the engines sport a radically different sound than other ships, and the large cockpit canopy features an unobstructed view of space.

The weapon hardpoints are located as follows: One Class 3 large hardpoint on the top of each wingtip nacelle (total of two class 3 mounts), and One Class 2 medium hardpoint on the underside of each wing where the wing attaches to the main fuselage (total of two class 2 mounts). The wingtip mounts are very far from centerline and will have trouble converging their fields of fire unless used with gimbaled or turret mounted weapons. The underside mounts although closer together, also suffer the same field of fire convergence issues although to a lesser degree than the wingtip mounts. Due to this, fixed weapons generally are not easy to use with this ship.

The pilot's seat is offset to the right of the centerline of the ship while the copilot's seat is offset to the left of the centerline.

Purchase Locations

System	Station	Date Seen	Notes
Shinrarta Dezhra	Jameson Memorial	Always available	10% discount, Founders Permit required
Brestla	i Sola Prospect	Always available	20% surcharge
LTT 11103	Korniyenko Terminal	Mar. 11, 2018	15% discount
Baldr	Keldysh Gateway	Mar. 11, 2018	15% discount
Bandizel	Hahn Orbital	Mar. 11, 2018	15% discount
Eotienses	Parkinson Dock	Mar. 11, 2018	10% discount
V374 Pegasi	MacKellar Hub	Mar. 11, 2018	10% discount
Alit	Rittenhouse Dock	Mar. 11, 2018	10% discount
Wong Guin	Heiles Terminal	Mar. 11, 2018	10% discount
Achenar	Dawes Hub	Mar. 11, 2018	Requires permit
Achenar	Bell Terminal	Mar. 11, 2018	Requires permit
Ra	Kazantsev Dock	Mar. 11, 2018
Alectrona	Marley City	Mar. 11, 2018
LFT 78	Coye Orbital	Mar. 11, 2018

Outfitting

Main article: Outfitting

All ships are highly customisable through the Outfitting menu of Station Services. Listed below is the default load-out for the Imperial Clipper.

Category	Default System	Default Rating	Default Class	Max Class
Medium Hardpoint	Pulse Laser (L)	F	1	2
Medium Hardpoint	Pulse Laser (L)	F	1	2
Large Hardpoint	Empty	--	--	3
Large Hardpoint	Empty	--	--	3
Utility Mount	Empty	--	--	0
	Empty	--	--	0
	Empty	--	--	0
	Empty	--	--	0
Bulkheads	Lightweight Alloys	I	1	8
Reactor Bay	Power Plant	E	6	6
Thrusters Mounting	Thrusters	E	6	6
Frame Shift Drive Housing	Frame Shift Drive	E	5	5
Environment Control	Life Support	E	5	5
Power Coupling	Power Distributor	E	6	6
Sensor Suite	Sensors	E	5	5
Fuel Store	Fuel Tank [x16]	C	4	4
Internal Compartments	Cargo Rack [x64]	E	6	7
	Shield Generator	E	6	6
	Cargo Rack [x8]	E	3	4
	Empty	--	--	4
	Empty	--	--	3
	Empty	--	--	3
	Cargo Rack [x2]	E	1	2
	Empty	--	--	2