In the X: Rebirth Universe, ships comprise a large part of the game. They can trade, they can mine and they can also fight.
What are Ships?
Ships are spacecraft that players see or use while travelling around the X Universe in their personal ship (currently the Pride of Albion AKA Albion Skunk). Most are specialized in different ways.
Briefly, each ship can fall under one of these categories: Civilian ships, Drones, Small/Medium ships, and Capital ships. Simoon wrote a guide for capital ships for Rebirth v3.00 and although it is a little outdated now, it may be interesting background with that caveat in mind (link).
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Ship construction materials
| Ware | Medium ships | Large / Extra Large ships | ||||
| Albion/DV/HoL | Argon | Teladi Union | Albion/DV/HoL | Argon | Teladi Union | |
| Energy Cells | x | x | x | x | x | |
| Fusion Reactors | x | x | x | x | x | |
| Podkletnov Generators | x | x | x | x | x | |
| Plasma Flow Regulators | x | x | ||||
| Reinforced Metal Plating | x | x | x | x | ||
| Bio-Optic Wiring | x | |||||
| Food Rations | x | x | x | |||
| Microchips | x | x | x | |||
| Scanning Arrays | x | x | x | |||
| Bio-Electric Neuron Gel | x | |||||
| BoFo | x | x | ||||
| EM-Spectrometer | x | x | ||||
| Plasma Pumps | x | x | ||||
| Teladianium | x | |||||
| TOTAL TYPES | 7 | 7 | 9 | 9 | 7 | |
Ship classification
By Class
Ships are often classified by its "class". Here are the classes currently used:
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