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Fighter Tender · Tier 7

Vespiary

  • Epic
  • 14,000,000.00 m³ per unit

A fighter tender a size above the Colossus: deep hangar decks, launch bays down both flanks and sixteen turrets to cover them. It keeps more fighters in the air than anything short of a Behemoth, and it is slow, broad and impossible to hide.

Overview

Fleet tender: 36 strike fighters, 18 out at once, and sixteen turrets, +15% turret damage

Slots and bonuses

16 high (8 L turret, 8 M turret) · 8 mid · 7 low.

  • Turret L 8Turret mount · large. Turns on its own to track a target anywhere above its deck, so it keeps firing while you orbit or fly past. Takes size L: energy guns, mass drivers, missile launchers, point defense, salvagers, Seal Breakers, Splice Rigs. Smaller energy guns and mass drivers and missile launchers and point defense and salvagers and Seal Breakers and Splice Rigs fit too. A smaller weapon keeps its own size and stats: no bonus from the larger mount.
  • Turret M 8Turret mount · medium. Turns on its own to track a target anywhere above its deck, so it keeps firing while you orbit or fly past. Takes size M: energy guns, mass drivers, missile launchers, point defense, salvagers, Seal Breakers, Splice Rigs, barrier projectors, nanite projectors. Sizes must match exactly (M), except energy guns and mass drivers and missile launchers and point defense and salvagers and Seal Breakers and Splice Rigs: a smaller one fits too. A smaller weapon keeps its own size and stats: no bonus from the larger mount.
  • Mid slots 8Mid slot · shields and electronics. No mount restrictions: takes any mid-slot module. Barrier regenerators, amplifiers and weaves, thrusters, point defense, jammers, scanners, doctrine arrays, the shroud and guidance rigs. Only this class of hull can fit: Lightfold Cloak, Heavy Drive Tether, Drive Anchor.
  • Low slots 7Low slot · armor and engineering. No mount restrictions: takes any low-slot module. Platings, nanite repair arrays, bracing, cell banks, hold extensions, augers and launcher rigs. One armor plating per hull.
  • Fighter bay 36Carries strike fighters, launched and recovered in space.

Hull bonuses

Gun damage
+15.0%

Strike wings

36 strike fighters in 6 wings of 6. Up to 18 fly at once.

Fighters and tenders in the Game Guide

Requirements

  • Leadership 90 to fly
  • Gunnery 80 to fly
  • Defense 80 to fly
  • Industry 65 to manufacture

How to get it

Manufactured at a station with Industry: one run makes 1 in 42h 0m. It needs the blueprint Vespiary Blueprint.

Bill of materials

One run makes 1. Expand an input to see what it takes.

Raw materials

Facts

Kind
Fighter Tender · Tier 7
Rarity
Epic
Volume
14,000,000.00 m³
Reference value
₡ 1,877,912,725
Shield
500,000 hp
Armor
560,000 hp
Hull
600,000 hp
Max speed
50 m/s
Boost
72 m/s
Cargo hold
24,000.00 m³
Slots
16 high · 8 mid · 7 low
Battery
18.8 MWh · 13.8 kV
Charge rate
990 MW
Peak output
2.25 GW
Warp
0.11 AU/s
Align
33.0 s
Signature
3,800 m
Shield regen
2,100 hp/s regen
Turn
3°/s pitch · 3°/s yaw · 4°/s roll
Dimensions
1.8 × 0.5 × 0.3 km
Strike fighters
36 (18 out at once)