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Introduction

Depending on your desired ship, there are several different ways to obtain a ship and use it on your own:them to order as you see fit. They are described below. You may wish to equip drones to soem ships (Capital Ships and Medium Miners). This can be done when ships are purchased and in other ways, which are all explained on the Drone page here.

Legitimate and Legal Way: Buy it

• You can not cannot obtain Civilian ships XS class ships (AKA "Mass Traffic") through any in-game methods. They are automatically generated by their home Station (including player station(s))Small Ships .
  • The only exception to this is with Cargolifter URVs owned by stations, which use the Mass Traffic network if two stations in the same zone trade with each other.
• Small Ships (Small and Medium class) are mass produced and are sold by Small Ship Dealers.
  • These dealers are located at the various Small (Civilian) Shipyards in the universe. There are Shipyards possessing Small Ship production facilities:
    • 2 in Albion
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    • 1 in DeVries
    ,
    • 2 in Omicron Lyrae
    , and (DLC: TO) 1 in Fields of Opportunity. (see below
    • 1 in Fields of Opportunity (TTO DLC)
    • 2 in Home of Light (HoL DLC)
• Capital Ships are built on request and are ordered from Capital Ship Dealers.
• These dealers are located at various Capital Shipyards in the Universe. There are galaxy
  • 2 in Albion,
  • 1 in DeVries,
  • 1 in Omicron Lyrae. and (DLC: TO)
  • 1 in Fields of Opportunity . (TTO DLC)
  • 2 in Home of Light (HoL DLC)
• If you have advanced to a certain place in the Plot (AKA Capaign) another shipyard may be built in DeVries; it may build S/M & XL ships only depending upon how advanced it becomes
• Drones for the <player> are obtained from NPC Drone Dealer vendors.
• Drone Dealers provide a selection of player drones to buy/sell. Other drone dealers, even on the same platform, may have different selections of drones and different prices so it pays to shop around. Further savings can be made with a good personal discount on the vendor by small talking them. 
• The Construction URV was removed from all vendors by a patch. It is likely to be unobtainable in vanilla now.
• Drones for L and XL ships (plus M Miners) are obtained from stations.
• When ordering a ship the player can specify a number of drones to come with it.
• A L or XL ship dealer can be ordered to retrofit drones to existing ships of the appropriate type. This is done under the 'Modify Ships' option in the 'Equip Drones' section. As ship dealers are end consumers it is likely going to cost more than other ways to obtain drones.
• L and XL ships can be ordered to transfer drones as drones from one ship to another. This is done by the 'Transfer Wares' order and requires the equipping ship have an operational drone bay. Such drones can be acquired as tradable wares from factories. When dealing with cargo transporters care must be taken to not accidently transfer drones as wares rather than equipping them for use and also that drones are not unintentionally transferred from equipped for use instead of cargo. Being able to find a good drone deal from a URV manufacturer can save quite a bit of credits using this method.
L and XL ships can be ordered to transfer drones as drones from player owned stations. This is done in the same way as with other ships expect targeting a station. If the station is a URV Warf a huge selection of drones may be available so care must be taken to equip the correct sort. This is the cheapest way to acquire drones as player owned factories manufacture goods significantly cheaper than available on the market, potentially even for free with enough station chaining
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"Illegal" and "Pirate" Way: Board it

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