AnacondaCombat

The Anaconda is Faulcon DeLacy's flagship and the game's archetypal do-everything capital ship. In combat it fields eight hardpoints — a huge mount, three large, two medium and two small — behind a 945 base armour hull, eight utility mounts, a single military slot, twelve optional internals and a ship-launched-fighter bay. It is, in every sense, a battleship.

Crucially, it has no rank gate — unlike the Federal Corvette and Imperial Cutter, anyone with the credits can buy one. That makes it the accessible large warship: not quite as combat-focused or agile as the rank-gated apex pair, but more flexible than either and open to everyone. It fights, hauls, explores and runs missions at a scale only large ships reach.

Four things make the Anaconda a formidable combat capital ship:

• Eight hardpoints with a huge mount. A capital-grade battery — huge plus three large plus four smaller mounts — that out-guns any medium and rivals the dedicated large warships.
• Battleship armour and vast internals. A 945 armour base, twelve optionals and a military slot let it tank to extraordinary levels while still carrying everything it needs.
• Eight utility mounts and an SLF bay. A huge defensive utility suite plus a launched fighter make it a force unto itself.
• No rank gate. Unlike the Corvette and Cutter, it needs only credits — the most accessible capital warship in the game.

Eight hardpoints with a huge mount, class-8 cores, 945 armour and twelve optionals make it a rank-free battleship; the worst agility among large combat ships is the only real limiter.

The 88/100 headline is a verdict against the combat role's priority-ordered factors. Each factor carries a weight (its share of 100); this hull earns part of each based on how it performs against the whole field. The points sum to the rating.

Both tables rate ships for the combat role specifically. The role column is the hardpoint loadout — the raw weapon mounts behind the damage.

Same class — large-pad combat ships

Among large combat ships the Anaconda is the versatile, rank-free option. The Corvette and Cutter beat it for pure combat — more guns, more agility, more shields respectively — but both demand a long navy grind. The Anaconda gives you a true battleship for credits alone, and re-roles to anything else besides.

Other classes — the medium contenders

The top mediums match or beat the Anaconda on agility, pad access and price — the Fer-de-Lance even out-duels it — but none brings a capital ship's firepower, tank and internal scale. Choose the Anaconda when you want a true battleship that also does everything else; choose a medium when agility, pad access and cost matter more.

At ~142M Cr the Anaconda is a major investment, but it carries no rank or permit gate — the most accessible capital warship. A full combat fit with engineered guns, shields and reinforcement pushes the all-in figure past 220M Cr, comparable to the rank-gated apex ships.

Because it re-roles so completely — battleship one week, deep-space explorer or bulk hauler the next — a single engineered Anaconda can replace several specialist ships, spreading its considerable cost across many roles.

A capital-grade combat fit: a huge main gun and three large mounts, deep shields and reinforcement, eight utilities and an SLF bay. Initial is buy-only; A-rated is the combat-ready baseline; Engineered applies the house combat pattern at battleship scale.

Buy the hull and leave bulkheads at stock Lightweight Alloy — then fit the largest shield a class-7 bay allows — a 7E Shield Generator — plus the 5D Hull Reinforcement in the military slot and a single 0A Shield Booster. Even buy-only it's a tank.

Arm the huge mount and most large and medium slots with gimballed multi-cannons, with two gimballed pulse lasers mixed in for shield-stripping. The two small hardpoints stay empty until the hull is paid off.

Leave the rest empty buy-only: the fighter bay, the seven further utility mounts, the shield-cell banks and the extra hull and module reinforcement all come with the A-rated pass.

A-rating priority for a combat capital ship:

• 1Power Distributor → 8A — Eight guns plus boost demand the class-8 distributor first. ~20M Cr
• 2Power Plant → 8A — Headroom for guns, a big shield, cells, SLF and eight utilities. ~25M Cr
• 3Bulkheads → Military Grade Composite — The armour tank's foundation; lifts base hull before the reinforcements multiply it. ~50M Cr
• 4Thrusters → 7A — Recover what agility a 400t-mass capital can manage. ~18M Cr
• 5Shield Generator → 7C bi-weave — A capital-scale shield is the next tank layer. ~15M Cr
• 6FSD → 6A — Move a heavy battleship between fights and turn-ins. ~15M Cr

The full house combat pattern at battleship scale. Pin blueprints for remote G1→G5 application; visit in person for experimentals.

Recommended order

• 1Distributor and plant to G5 first — eight guns and a fighter are enormously power-hungry.
• 2Thrusters to G5 to recover what agility the heavy hull allows.
• 3Shield Reinforced plus Heavy-Duty boosters for the first tank layer; Heavy-Duty reinforcement for the second.
• 4Weapons last: Overcharged multi-cannons with one Corrosive, Thermal-Vent beams.

Approximate progression across the three states (figures are representative, not exact rolls):

The A-rated pass already brings Military Grade Composite bulkheads, so the hull tank is real before any engineering touches it. Engineered, the Anaconda is a true battleship: effective armour into the thousands, a 1,600 MJ shield, eight sustained guns and a fighter. It will never be agile — that's the cost of the scale — but few ships in the game are harder to kill or hit harder while doing four other jobs besides.

• Embrace the scale: tank on shields and hull at once, carry a fighter, and field a full eight-utility booster suite — few ships can do all three.
• Accept the poor agility; play it as an immovable battleship that out-guns and out-lasts, not a dancer.
• It's the credits-only capital — the ideal large warship to own while grinding the ranks for a Corvette or Cutter.
• Fully engineering it is a major material spend; prioritise distributor, plant, shield and the huge mount first.