Type-10 DefenderCombat

The Type-10 Defender is Lakon's bulk-freighter chassis reborn as a warship — and the result is the toughest hull in the game. It carries nine hardpoints (four large, three medium, two small), two military slots, eight utilities and the single highest armour base of any ship (1044), all wrapped around a slow, immense airframe built to sit in a fight and simply not die.

It is the antithesis of a duellist. The Type-10 is glacially slow, turns terribly and has surprisingly weak shields for its size — so it doesn't dodge or chase; it anchors and saturates, loaded with turrets that fire on everything around it while its armour soaks the return. That profile makes it a famous anti-Thargoid platform: nine mounts of AX weaponry on a hull that survives interceptor attacks. As a turret tank, nothing is harder to kill.

Four things make the Type-10 the ultimate turret tank:

• The highest armour in the game. A 1044 base — with reinforcement, effective armour climbs into the many thousands. Nothing absorbs more punishment.
• Nine hardpoints. Four large, three medium and two small — loaded with turrets, it saturates the entire space around it with fire.
• Two military slots plus eight utilities. Dedicated reinforcement and a huge utility suite (point defence, heat sinks, boosters) make it self-sufficient in a long fight.
• No rank gate. Despite its Federal associations it needs only credits — the most accessible heavy-tank warship.

Nine mounts and game-highest armour lead the score; the limiter is glacial 179/219 m/s agility plus feeble ~99 MJ shields, capping it as a stand-and-saturate specialist.

The 78/100 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

The Type-10 is the armour-and-saturation specialist of the large class. The others out-gun, out-shield or out-run it, but none can match its armour or its nine mounts. As a stand-and-saturate turret tank — especially for AX — it occupies a niche the faster, harder-hitting warships simply don't fill.

Other classes — the turret-tank cousins

For AX specifically the agile mediums (Chieftain, Krait Mk II) dodge Thargoid attacks the Type-10 must simply tank, and many pilots prefer them. But for a stationary, indestructible AX gun platform that out-lasts everything, the Type-10 is unrivalled — the choice when survivability and mount count beat mobility.

At ~121M Cr the Type-10 is a major purchase but carries no rank gate — the most accessible heavy-tank warship. A turret-and-armour fit doesn't need expensive duelling engineering, so the bill is dominated by the hull, nine weapons and deep reinforcement.

It's most worth the cost for dedicated AX pilots and wing tanks; for general combat, faster and harder-hitting ships offer more per credit. Buy it for what it uniquely does — survive and saturate.

Lakon offers a Type-10 'AX Combat' themed pre-built in some storefronts, aligned to its anti-Thargoid strength. The standard pre-built rules apply: stock modules sell for 0 Cr and cannot be stored or transferred, but engineering the stock cores in place preserves the free rebuy.

If you fly a pre-built, add AX/Guardian weapons and reinforcement to open slots and engineer the cores in situ — never strip the stock modules out.

A turret-saturation armour-tank fit using both military slots and all eight utilities. Initial is buy-only; A-rated is the combat-ready baseline; Engineered applies the house combat pattern weighted to turrets and armour. An AX variant swaps the turrets for Guardian/AX weapons.

Buy the hull with its stock Lightweight Alloy bulkhead and slot a 5D Hull Reinforcement in the first military slot — armour is the whole point. The Military Grade bulkhead, the second military slot and the optional-bay reinforcement stack all arrive with the A-rated pass.

Fit gimballed multi-cannons and pulse lasers across the four large and three medium mounts so the ship fights even while you concentrate on position; the two small hardpoints stay empty until the A-rated turret swap.

Run the stock 8E shield generator with a single shield booster for a thin buffer over the armour; the bi-weave, point defence and heat sinks wait for A-rating. Even unengineered it's a near-immovable anchor.

A-rating priority for a turret tank:

• 1Power Plant → 8A — Power for nine turrets, a fighter and eight utilities. ~18M Cr
• 2Power Distributor → 7A — Feed nine turrets without throttling. ~15M Cr
• 3Bulkheads → Military Grade Composite — The single biggest armour jump; everything else stacks on top. ~28M Cr
• 4Thrusters → 7A — Recover the barest mobility a 1,200t hull allows. ~15M Cr
• 5Shield Generator → 8C bi-weave — A regenerating buffer over the vast armour. ~10M Cr
• 6FSD → 7A — Move the fortress between fights. ~12M Cr

The house combat pattern weighted to turrets and armour. Pin blueprints for remote G1→G5 application; visit in person for experimentals.

Recommended order

• 1Heavy-Duty hull reinforcement across the military slots and optionals first — armour is the tank.
• 2Plant and distributor to G5 to feed nine turrets.
• 3Turret weapons: Overcharged multi-cannons with one Corrosive, Thermal-Vent beams.
• 4A bi-weave buffer and boosters last — useful, but secondary to the armour.

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

The A-rated jump is almost all bulkhead and reinforcement — Military Grade Composite plus the full HRP stack (including the size-1 slot reclaimed from the scanner) lifts effective armour well past 3,500 before a single engineer touches it. Engineered with Heavy Duty + Deep Plating throughout, the Type-10 is the toughest ship in the game — effective armour past 6,000 and nine turrets saturating everything in range. It never becomes fast or nimble; it doesn't try. As an immovable, near-indestructible gun platform — especially for AX — nothing out-lasts it.

• Go full turret — the Type-10 can't aim fixed weapons at agile targets; turrets let it fight while you survive.
• Tank on armour, not shields — pour reinforcement into the military slots and optionals; the shield is a buffer.
• Its true calling is AX; for general PvE, faster, harder-hitting ships are usually better value.
• Accept the speed — it anchors and out-lasts; it never chases or escapes.