Ship × Role Matrix · Ship Ratings

Field Briefing

Every ship×role verdict, on one sortable grid.

The matrix puts all 336 pairings on a single board — 48 hulls against seven roles, each cell the hull's 1–100 suitability for that job. 160 are documented and linked straight to the write-up; the rest are scored but sub-40. It is the fastest way to ask “what's the best ship for X?” or “what else is this hull good at?” without opening fifty pages.

Rows are hulls

Columns are the seven roles; the Class column is the landing pad.

Cells are verdicts

The same roster-relative, engineered 1–100 score each dossier carries.

Grey is a poor fit

A greyed, unlinked cell scored below 40 — no dossier, a hull to skip for that job.

Reading the Grid

Orientation

One board for the whole fleet: 48 hulls down the side, seven roles across the top, and in every cell the ship's 1–100 suitability for that job — all 336 pairings, none left blank. A bright, linked cell opens that pairing's dossier; a greyed cell is a sub-40 poor fit with no dossier.

Rows × cols

Every hull × role

All 48 hulls scored against all seven job columns — the complete 336-cell board.

1–100

The score

A roster-relative, fully-engineered suitability rating — higher is a better fit for that role.

Bar

At a glance

The bar runs red (high) to green (low), so a column reads as a ladder without parsing numbers.

Class

Landing pad

The Class column is the hull's pad size — Small, Medium or Large — the first filter on any buy.

Bright is documented, grey is a poor fit

Of the 336 pairings, 160 carry a published dossier — the bright, linked cells. The greyed cells score below 40: the hull is a poor fit for that role, so there is no dedicated write-up (hover a cell for its “no dossier” note). A greyed number is a coarse “don't bother” signal, not a full verdict — use the bright cells to compare what's documented.

Drive it from the headers

Every column title carries a sort glyph (⇅ → ▲ → ▼) and a funnel. Sort by any role to rank the field; search a hull by name; gate the table by pad class; or set a minimum score on one or more roles — the role minimums stack, so “Combat ≥ 85 and Trading ≥ 70” finds the hulls that do both.

The Matrix

48 ships · 7 roles

The whole board. Sort by any role, filter by pad class or minimum score, and click a cell to open its dossier.

Ship Filter ships ⌕	Class Pad class Small✓ Medium✓ Large✓	Combat Minimum Combat ≥	AX Minimum AX ≥	Mining Minimum Mining ≥	Trading Minimum Trading ≥	Exploration Minimum Exploration ≥	Passenger Minimum Passenger ≥	Multipurpose Minimum Multipurpose ≥
Adder	Small	26	23	48	33	60	29	35
Alliance Challenger	Medium	86	88	39	37	38	31	35
Alliance Chieftain	Medium	88	90	36	36	39	32	39
Alliance Crusader	Medium	80	79	35	36	38	32	36
Anaconda	Large	88	88	86	76	94	82	88
Asp Explorer	Medium	38	33	64	58	86	60	80
Asp Scout	Medium	28	33	38	35	70	34	34
Beluga Liner	Large	19	21	36	58	58	95	44
Caspian Explorer	Large	34	36	60	66	94	60	66
Cobra Mk III	Small	58	38	52	48	71	39	72
Cobra Mk IV	Small	44	32	37	52	35	35	39
Cobra Mk V	Small	78	50	58	52	72	37	80
Corsair	Medium	85	84	68	74	58	50	82
Diamondback Explorer	Small	65	36	30	27	88	33	33
Diamondback Scout	Small	60	33	29	24	74	31	37
Dolphin	Small	20	22	33	46	80	80	44
Eagle Mk II	Small	55	31	13	14	34	12	29
Federal Assault Ship	Medium	84	77	32	31	31	26	38
Federal Corvette	Large	98	86	64	70	29	37	78
Federal Dropship	Medium	76	73	35	36	31	33	34
Federal Gunship	Medium	82	82	38	34	30	32	36
Fer-de-Lance	Medium	93	68	27	21	31	24	35
Hauler	Small	12	12	32	42	62	17	19
Imperial Clipper	Large	79	39	70	74	63	64	73
Imperial Courier	Small	70	35	25	29	73	52	66
Imperial Cutter	Large	91	90	92	95	37	89	82
Imperial Eagle	Small	54	30	16	17	33	17	27
Keelback	Medium	36	34	68	52	37	35	38
Kestrel Mk II	Small	85	60	28	25	50	26	36
Krait Mk II	Medium	90	89	84	64	80	46	84
Krait Phantom	Medium	74	84	70	62	93	64	84
Lynx Highliner	Medium	15	14	13	13	15	90	15
Mamba	Medium	89	70	24	22	39	23	39
Mandalay	Medium	36	33	38	37	96	54	39
Orca	Large	30	26	35	38	63	88	37
Panther Clipper Mk II	Large	33	34	77	98	30	48	44
Python	Medium	83	80	90	72	75	70	86
Python Mk II	Medium	90	84	35	37	34	37	39
Sidewinder Mk I	Small	40	19	20	23	37	16	24
Type-10 Defender	Large	78	86	70	68	30	32	44
Type-11 Prospector	Medium	37	37	95	60	55	38	64
Type-6 Transporter	Medium	22	21	62	65	68	39	44
Type-7 Transporter	Large	18	18	78	78	34	56	44
Type-8 Transporter	Medium	28	28	84	76	35	46	58
Type-9 Heavy	Large	25	25	90	94	32	56	44
Viper Mk III	Small	63	35	18	16	34	14	19
Viper Mk IV	Small	66	38	23	22	36	20	36
Vulture	Small	80	44	27	21	32	20	34

Ship × Role suitability matrix — each cell is the hull's 1–100 score for that role; the bar runs red (high) → green (low). Bright, linked cells open a dossier; greyed cells are a sub-40 poor fit with no dossier (hover for the tooltip). Use each column's sort and filter glyphs to reorder and narrow the grid. 48 ships × 7 roles.

What the Grid Reveals

Patterns

Read down the columns and a few truths fall out of the board — about who can do everything, who owns each role, and how little a landing pad actually decides.

The true generalists

70+ in all 7

Only two hulls clear 70 in every single role: the Anaconda and the Python. The Anaconda never drops below 76 (trading) and peaks at 94 (exploration) — the definitive do-everything, at a Large-pad price and a Large-pad bankroll. The Python repeats the trick on a Medium pad for a fraction of the cost: the working commander's one-ship answer.

Pad size isn't destiny

Medium punches up

The top of exploration (Mandalay, 96) and mining (Type-11 Prospector, 95) is Medium-pad, and the Fer-de-Lance (93) is the second-best gun in the game on a Medium hull. Large pads own only the bulk jobs — trading and luxury passenger. You do not need outpost-locking size to reach the top of most roles.

Role champions

The highest published verdict in each column — the hull to beat for that job.

Role	Top hull	Rating
Combat	Federal Corvette	98
AX	Alliance Chieftain	90
Mining	Type-11 Prospector	95
Trading	Panther Clipper Mk II	98
Exploration	Mandalay	96
Passenger	Beluga Liner	95
Multipurpose	Anaconda	88

Apex per role — AX is a tie at 90 (Alliance Chieftain shown; Imperial Cutter matches it).

Specialists buy a podium

Specialist hulls trade breadth for a peak: the Fer-de-Lance (combat 93), Caspian Explorer (exploration 94), Type-11 Prospector (mining 95) and Lynx Highliner (passenger 90) each carry a published dossier in one role and dominate it. The grey cells down the rest of their row are the price — pick a specialist when you fly one job, a generalist when you fly all of them.