Krait Mk IIPassenger

The Krait Mk II is a combat and multipurpose medium first, and a passenger hull only by accident of having nine optional internals. Fill those with cabins and it will carry a respectable board — deeper in raw economy seats than its Phantom sibling — but nothing about the hull earns more per fare, and much of what you pay for is combat capability the role never uses.

Its real problem is that it is a strictly-worse-value tourer than ships it sits beside. The Krait Phantom is the same manufacturer's lighter airframe: cheaper, longer-legged and just as medium-pad-flexible. The dedicated liners earn a comfort bonus the Krait Mk II cannot. It lands a mid-to-low pick that only makes sense as a re-role of a hull you already own for fighting or hauling.

Three things make the Krait Mk II a workable — if unremarkable — passenger hull:

• Deep economy capacity. Nine optional internals (6·6·5·5·4·3·3·2·1) stack ~114 economy seats stripped, ~82 behind a shield — more raw berths than the Phantom and most other mediums.
• Medium-pad access. Lands at the outposts and stations the large liners physically can't dock at, with no rank or permit gate.
• Re-roles instantly. The same hull is your combat, mining or trade ship; swap cabins for a fighter bay, scoop or cargo at any station.

A converted combat medium with deep economy seating but no passenger edge — no comfort bonus, a heavy 320t airframe that jumps short, and the worst value in the role beside its cheaper, longer-legged Krait Phantom sibling.

The 46/100 headline is a verdict against the passenger 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.

Every table rates ships for passenger specifically, split by landing-pad class. The Cabin cap. column is total optional-internal capacity — room for cabins; the rating is the same 1–100 suitability verdict used across the site.

Same class — medium passenger ships

8 medium-pad passenger hulls carry a rating, led by Lynx Highliner (90). Every same-pad rival lands where this one does — the direct field to shop.

Other classes — the liners

The large-pad passenger field (9 rated), led by Beluga Liner (95) — bigger pads and bankrolls. They out-muscle this hull on the numbers, but sit a pad class away.

Other classes — the shuttle-class

The small-pad passenger field (2 rated), led by Dolphin (80) — cheaper hulls and tighter pads. They undercut this hull on the numbers, but sit a pad class away.

At ~44M Cr the hull is mid-priced for a medium, with no rank or permit gate — but it is ~8M more than the Krait Phantom, which does the identical medium-pad tourist job lighter and with more range. A first/luxury cabin mix and a real shield push the A-rated bill to ~70M Cr; engineering the FSD, thrusters and shield lifts it past ~85M.

The value case is simply weak. Everything that makes the Krait Mk II cost what it does — the fighter bay, the three large hardpoints, the tough combat internals — is money a passenger never uses. If you are buying a hull for tourist work, the Phantom or a dedicated liner is the better spend.

A converted-combat-medium passenger fit: a mixed economy/first/luxury board behind a real bi-weave shield, with the FSD and thrusters engineered to claw back range from a heavy airframe. Initial is buy-only; A-rated is the tourist baseline; Engineered maximises what range this hull can reach. With no size-7 slot, the shield eats a size-6 bay, and the class-6 ceiling caps premium fit at a single luxury suite.

Buy the hull and fit a stock 6E Shield Generator in the first class-6 bay for passenger safety, then fill the remaining large slots with cheap economy passenger cabins — a 6E, two 5E and a 4E carry an immediate bulk-economy board. Core internals all go in at base E-rating and the weapon hardpoints stay empty.

Leave the smaller optionals empty for now: the class-3, class-2 and class-1 slots, the extra utilities and the shield cell bank all wait for the A-rated pass. This is a low-cost first circuit to earn toward the real fit.

A-rating priority for a medium passenger hull:

• 1Frame Shift Drive → 5A — Range is this heavy hull's weakest axis; A-rate it first to keep scattered drop-offs reachable. ~5M Cr
• 2Thrusters → 6A — Speed to shake an interdiction and turn a loaded hull in and out of stations. ~6M Cr
• 3Power Plant → 7A — Headroom for the shield, cabins and utilities together. ~9M Cr
• 4Shield Generator → 6C bi-weave — Fast-regen passenger safety in the first size-6 bay. ~5M Cr
• 5Cabins → first/luxury mix — Add one large luxury suite and a first-class cabin for premium fares alongside the economy bulk. ~20M Cr
• 6Power Distributor → 7A — Sustains boosting away from danger on a loaded hull. ~7M Cr

Range first, then safety: Increased-Range FSD and Dirty thrusters to lift a heavy laden hull, a Reinforced bi-weave for passenger safety, and Lightweight cores to save mass. Cabins are never engineered.

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

Engineering the FSD and thrusters is what turns a short-legged combat airframe into a usable tourer — but even engineered, ~32 LY laden trails the lighter Phantom by around 10 LY. The shield and premium cabins arrive on the A-rated pass; the engineered figures buy range and a firmer defensive layer, not more seats.

• The shield must sit in a size-6 bay — there is no size-7 slot to relocate it — so a shielded board loses one of the two deepest cabin slots.
• Passenger cabins start at size 2, so the size-1 optional takes no cabin; use it for a Supercruise Assist or leave it empty.
• Leave the weapon hardpoints clean for range and heat — a tourist run has no use for the three large mounts.
• Watch mission passenger requirements: some VIP fares demand first- or luxury-class cabins, which this hull fits only one of at size.