EVE Ships and Technologies

Yuki 0nna

The Minmatar Fenrir is easily the fastest of the great sluggards that are the massive freighters of EVE, clocking in at a base speed of 80 meters per second. But it has also the smallest cargo hold of all the freighters, starting at a base of 720,000 cubic meters.

In consequence, the hoi polloi, who never question the pursuit of bigger as better, almost invariably overlook the Fenrir in favor of that behemoth the Caldari Charon, which leads all EVE freighters with a base cargo capacity of 785000 cubic meters.

While the Fenrir can be brought to a maximum capacity of 900,000 cubic meters, with level 5 training in Minmatar Freighter Spaceship Command, comparable full training in the Caldari Freighter skill book will increase the Charon's capacity to 981,250 cubic meters.

Of course, there are also those esthetes who choose their freighter simply by style; among their kind, the sleek Amarr Providence seems to be the favorite. There's no accounting for taste. I have my racial pride: I prefer the junkyard, everything-and-the-kitchensink aesthetic of Minmatar ships.

But is there a practical, more objective measure of which freighter, day in and day out, running regular hauling routes about high sec, is the "best freighter" in New Eden?

I think there is: Jump Gate Efficiency. And the "best freighter" by this measure is clearly the Minmatar Fenrir.

My Trashy Thrasher

Yuki 0nna

On first looking over a Minmatar ship, it's hard not to wonder ok, where did they put the kitchen sink? For unlike the sleek designs of the Amarr fleet, the wicked functionality of the Calmari, and the bulbous organic forms of Gallente ships, the thrown-together, almost cardboard boxiness of most Minmatar ships argues almost no overarching design or engineering concept at all, as if the Minmatar tribes, when they first launched into space, made due with whatever was laying about at hand and never after thought it worthwhile to give what worked well enough a second thought.