CorsairCombat

The Corsair is Gutamaya's contemporary answer to the medium combat question, and it answers it with breadth. Six hardpoints — three large and three medium — give it a heavy, flexible main battery, while ten optional internals (deep for a combat hull) let it tank, sustain and even carry cargo without compromising its guns. Imperial design means it's quick and handsome with it.

Where the Krait leans on an SLF bay and the Fer-de-Lance on a huge hardpoint, the Corsair simply does everything well: lots of guns, lots of room, plenty of speed. It has no military slots, so its tanking comes from those generous optionals rather than dedicated bays — but the sheer count of internals means it can still shield- or hull-tank deeply. It's the modern, do-it-all combat medium.

Four things make the Corsair a top-tier modern combat medium:

• Six hardpoints. Three large plus three medium — a heavy, flexible main battery that matches or beats most mediums for total firepower.
• Ten optional internals. Exceptionally deep for a combat hull, with three class-6 bays — tank with shields and cell banks, or hull-tank with reinforcement, without giving up guns.
• Imperial speed and class-7 power. Fast and agile with a strong plant and distributor to feed six guns plus boost — no power starvation.
• Modern flexibility. The room to carry cargo, scanners or extra defences means it adapts to mixed combat play better than narrower specialists.

Six hardpoints (3L/3M) and ten optionals deliver top-tier breadth at a medium pad with no rank gate; the lack of a huge mount and only "Good" agility cap it below the duelling specialists.

The 85/100 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 — medium-pad combat ships

The Corsair is the modern breadth pick: more guns than the Krait, more room than the FDL, faster than the Alliance hulls. It lacks any one signature feature, so the specialists edge it in their niches — but as a fast, six-gun, deep-internal all-round combat medium, it's among the best, if you'll pay the premium.

Other classes — the larger leagues

Large warships out-gun and out-tank the Corsair but need a pad and usually a rank grind. The Corsair delivers six guns and large-ship-style internal depth from a medium pad with no rank gate — the modern, flexible alternative to climbing a navy ladder.

At ~76.9M Cr the Corsair is one of the priciest combat mediums, but it carries no rank or permit gate — just credits. Its deep internals mean a full combat fit (six engineered guns, shields, cells, reinforcement) adds up, putting it among the more expensive mediums to bring to its ceiling.

You pay for breadth and modernity. If you want one combat medium that's fast, heavily armed and flexible, the Corsair justifies its price; if budget matters, the Alliance hulls deliver most of the capability for far less.

A balanced six-gun combat fit using the deep optionals to shield-tank. Initial is buy-only; A-rated is the combat-ready baseline; Engineered applies the house combat pattern. Re-weight optionals toward hull reinforcement for a tankier variant.

Buy the hull and fit the largest shield a class-6 bay allows plus a shield booster — RES-ready immediately. Bulkheads stay stock Lightweight Alloy at this stage; the Military Grade swap waits for A-rating.

Arm the mounts buy-only with four gimballed multi-cannons and two pulse lasers — cheap kinetic-plus-thermal cover until A-rating swaps a beam onto a large and a medium.

Slot a cargo rack into one of the deep class-6 bays early; the internal depth means you needn't commit everything to combat at once.

A-rating priority for a six-gun combat medium:

• 1Power Distributor → 7A — Six guns plus boost demand the class-7 distributor first. ~8M Cr
• 2Power Plant → 7A — Headroom for six guns, shields and utilities. ~10M Cr
• 3Thrusters → 7A — Preserve the Imperial speed and agility. ~8M Cr
• 4Shield Generator → 6C bi-weave — Fast regen suits a brawler that re-engages. ~6M Cr
• 5Bulkheads → Military Grade Composite — The hull-tank baseline before stacking reinforcement. ~9M Cr
• 6FSD → 5A — Reach fights and turn-ins faster. ~6M Cr

The full house combat pattern on a roomy modern medium. Pin blueprints for remote G1→G5 application; visit in person for experimentals.

Recommended order

• 1Distributor and plant to G5 first to power and sustain six guns.
• 2Thrusters to G5 to keep the Imperial speed advantage.
• 3Weapons next: Overcharged multi-cannons with one Corrosive, Thermal-Vent beams.
• 4Tank into the deep optionals: Reinforced bi-weave, cell banks and Heavy-Duty reinforcement.

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

Initial armour is stock Lightweight Alloy; A-rating drops in Military Grade Composite, and the engineered hull layers Heavy Duty bulkheads with hull reinforcement (5D, 4D, 1D) into the low thousands of effective armour. Behind the 1,000 MJ bi-weave sit four shield cell banks — two of them size-6 — for repeated re-engages, all at ~430 m/s. A fast, heavily armed medium with the internal depth to tank like a far larger ship. Breadth is its superpower.

• Exploit the depth: decide shield- or hull-tank and use the ten optionals fully — few combat mediums can tank this hard.
• Six guns reward a mixed loadout — multi-cannons for hull, beams for shields, one Corrosive to amplify it all.
• It's fast for a six-gun medium — use the speed to control range as well as the firepower to win it.
• At its price, it competes with large warships on capability; weigh the premium against an Alliance hull if budget matters.