Corsair

The Corsair is further evidence of Gutamaya's mastery of multi-role ship designs. It offers a generous number of internal compartments, significant cargo capacity, and impressive straight-line speed and agility. With appropriate outfitting the Corsair performs very well in all ship roles, outclassed only by dedicated role vessels. This craft also takes full advantage of an overcharged Frame Shift Drive's capabilities.

— In-Game Description

The Corsair is a medium multirole ship produced by Gutamaya.^[1] It's a successor to the Imperial Clipper.^[2] Imperial Navy rank is not required.^[2] It is available for credits since 4 July 2025 for Odyssey owners.^[3]

Overview

The Corsair has a size 7 Power Plant, size 7 thrusters, a size 7 Power Distributor, up to 10 optional internals, and 6 hardpoints.^[4]^[5] It's designed to do all three main roles equally.^[1] As a multirole ship, it is thus superior to the Python.^[2] It can carry up to an impressive 318t of cargo, giving the Corsair the highest cargo capacity of all medium ships apart from the Type-8 Transporter. The Corsair's max speed through engineering is capped at 600 m/s, though the size 7 Thrusters ensure it will reliably reach this speed even with most high-mass load outs.^[5]

The ship has blue neon strip lights that highlight the shape of the hull, and minimal heat vents that fit inside the ship.^[1] The cockpit is similar to the Imperial Courier with an extra seat.^[2] Ports on the outer edges of the nacelles allow the thrusters to be observed externally, spinning faster as the ship accelerates. As a departure from earlier Imperial Gutamaya ships which feature weapon Hardpoints on their nacelles, all of the Corsair's Hardpoints are located on its fuselage, affording much tighter weapon convergence.

Outfitting

Main article: Outfitting

All ships are highly customisable through the Outfitting menu of Station Services. Listed below is the default loadout for the Corsair.

Category	Default System	Default Rating	Default Class	Max Class
Medium Hardpoint	Pulse Laser (L)	F	1	2
	Pulse Laser (L)	F	1	2
	Empty	--	--	2
Large Hardpoint	Empty	--	--	3
	Empty	--	--	3
	Empty	--	--	3
Utility Mount	Empty	--	--	0
	Empty	--	--	0
	Empty	--	--	0
	Empty	--	--	0
Bulkheads	Lightweight Alloys	C	1	1
Reactor Bay	Power Plant	E	7	7
Thrusters Mounting	Thrusters	E	7	7
Frame Shift Drive Housing	Frame Shift Drive (SCO)	E	5	5
Environment Control	Life Support	E	4	4
Power Coupling	Power Distributor	E	7	7
Sensor Suite	Sensors	E	6	6
Fuel Store	Fuel Tank [x32]	C	5	5
Internal Compartments	Cargo Rack [x32]	E	5	6
	Shield Generator	E	5	6
	Empty	--	--	6
	Cargo Rack [x16]	E	4	5
	Empty	--	--	5
	Empty	--	--	5
	Empty	--	--	4
	Empty	--	--	3
	Supercruise Assist	I	1	2
	Advanced Docking Computer	E	1	1
	(PAS)	I	1	1

(L) = Loaned Module
[x#] = Capacity
(PAS) = Reserved solely for the Planetary Approach Suite or Advanced Planetary Approach Suite

Development

The Corsair was unveiled during a Frontier Unlocked livestream on 26 February 2025.^[1] As previous medium SCO native ships covered Combat, Trading and Exploration (in the Python Mk II, Type-8 and Mandalay respectively), the Corsair represents the first new multi-purpose medium ship. It launched for ARX on 8 April 2025.^[2] It became available for credits on 4 July 2025.^[3]

Trivia

When first released, the Corsair had a mass lock factor of 7, which is unusually low for a ship of its size. This placed its mass locking ability on par with much smaller ships such as the Adder or Imperial Courier. This oversight was fixed in the Trailblazers Update 3 on 30 April, 2025.^[6]
The Corsair proved somewhat controversial with cmdrs at release due to it's 600m/s speed limit. In reality, every ship in the game has a maximum speed limit, though it's rare for most to reach this outside of a low-mass builds. The Corsair is the first ship that can reach it's speed limit with undersized 6A thrusters. This is something of a feature however, and does not make 7A thrusters obsolete on the ship; while 6A allows the ship to reach it's maximum speed on a low-mass build, 7A thrusters allow it consistently retain it's speed and handling even in high mass, hull tank combat builds.