Type-10 DefenderMultipurpose

The Type-10 Defender is Lakon's bulk-freighter chassis reborn as a warship, and as a multipurpose hull that heritage cuts both ways. It carries the highest armour base in the game (1,044), nine hardpoints (four large, three medium, two small), two military slots, eight utilities and a deep bank of optional internals — more raw combat and reinforcement capability than most ships in this class. Load cargo racks and it hauls ~530 t; load guns and reinforcement and it becomes an all-but-indestructible turret tank.

What it cannot do is the other half of "multipurpose". A size-7 frame shift drive dragging a 1,200 t hull yields only a ~16–20 LY laden jump — the worst in the field — so exploration is off the table. It is glacially slow at 179/219 m/s and turns dreadfully, so it can't run trade loops quickly, dodge, or escape a fight it doesn't want. And it is a large pad that never sees an outpost. It is a combat/AX hull that dabbles at hauling, not a hull that genuinely switches between roles.

Two things make it capable, two things cap it hard:

• Elite armour and internals. A 1,044 base — the highest in the game — over two military slots, plus deep optionals that hold ~530 t of cargo or a fortress reinforcement stack. Nothing in the role tanks or reinforces more.
• Nine hardpoints. Four large, three medium and two small is the highest mount count of any hull — genuine warship firepower, even without a Huge mount.
• Worst-in-class range and speed. A size-7 FSD on a 1,200 t hull jumps ~16–20 LY laden; 179/219 m/s is glacial. It can't explore, can't run fast trade loops, can't escape.
• Large pad and feeble shields. No outposts, and a ~99 MJ base shield forces it to tank on armour alone — fine in combat, a liability everywhere the armour isn't the point.

The game's toughest hull and its most-mounted gun array, mis-cast as a generalist: deep internals and nine hardpoints are real, but a ~16-20 LY jump, glacial handling, feeble shields and a large-pad, six-figure price mean it can only fight and haul, slowly, capping it at the bottom of the role.

The 44/100 headline is a verdict against the multipurpose 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 multipurpose specifically, split by landing-pad class. The Max cargo column is maximum cargo tonnage — a proxy for internal room; the rating is the same 1–100 suitability verdict used across the site.

Same class — large multipurpose ships

10 large-pad multipurpose hulls carry a rating, led by Anaconda (88). Every same-pad rival lands where this one does — the direct field to shop.

Other classes — the medium all-rounders

The medium-pad multipurpose field (8 rated), led by Python (86) — cheaper hulls and tighter pads. They undercut this hull on the numbers, but sit a pad class away.

Other classes — the small all-rounders

The small-pad multipurpose field (4 rated), led by Cobra Mk V (80) — cheaper hulls and tighter pads. They undercut this hull on the numbers, but sit a pad class away.

At ~125M Cr the Type-10 is a major purchase with no rank gate — anyone with the credits can fly one. But as a generalist it is poor value: for the same money a Python or Anaconda covers far more of the role, and cheaper mediums haul and travel better.

Buy it for what it uniquely does — armour and mount count — not for versatility. If your week is mostly combat, AX and the occasional cargo run, the Type-10 earns its price; if you want a hull that also explores, trades quickly or lands at outposts, spend the credits elsewhere.

A balanced multirole fit on the game's toughest hull — nine gimballed guns, a deep bi-weave over stacked armour, ~216 t of cargo and enough range to travel. Initial is buy-only; A-rated is the multirole baseline; Engineered makes it capable across combat, hauling and defence. Strip the cargo and HRPs for a bigger hold to trade, or add more reinforcement to tank — the T-10 re-tunes at a station.

Buy the hull with its stock Lightweight Alloy bulkhead and fit the buy-only core baseline: E-rated core internals (8E power plant, 7E thrusters, 7E FSD, 5E life support, 7E distributor, 4E sensors) and a 6C fuel tank.

Fit gimballed multi-cannons and lasers across the four large and three medium mounts so the ship fights while you concentrate on position; leave the two small hardpoints empty until the A-rated pass. Slot a 5D hull reinforcement in the first military slot — armour is what this hull does — and a stock 8E shield generator with a single shield booster for a thin buffer.

Leave the second military slot and the deeper optionals empty for now; A-rating the cores comes first, since they serve every role. Build storable module sets — a cargo loadout and a combat loadout — to swap as the week demands.

A-rating priority for an all-rounder tank:

• 1Power Plant → 8A — Power for nine guns, a big shield, cells and eight utilities. ~18M Cr
• 2Power Distributor → 7A — Feed nine mounts and boost without throttling. ~15M Cr
• 3Bulkheads → Military Grade Composite — The single biggest armour jump; everything else stacks on top. ~28M Cr
• 4Core internals → A — 7A thrusters, 7A FSD (plus 5A life support, 4D sensors) recover the barest mobility and jump a 1,200 t hull allows. ~30M Cr
• 5Shield Generator → 8C bi-weave — A regenerating buffer over the vast armour; boosters do the heavy lifting. ~12M Cr
• 6Reinforcement, weapons & role sets — Second military hull reinforcement, defensive utilities, a gimballed weapon set, and storable cargo racks. varies

The house all-rounder pattern weighted to armour and sustained fire. Pin blueprints for remote G1→G5 application; visit in person for experimentals.

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

Military Grade Composite with Heavy Duty G5 and Deep Plating, stacked on the two military slots and deep optional hull reinforcements, takes effective armour past ~6,000 — the most survivable hull in the role by a wide margin. But engineering can't fix the fundamentals: even a fully-tuned FSD only reaches ~16–20 LY laden, and Dirty Drives lift boost to just ~250 m/s. The tank gets tougher; it never gets mobile.

• A-rate the plant and distributor first — nine guns and a big shield need the power before anything else.
• It's a combat tank that dabbles, not a true generalist — a Python or Anaconda out-flexes it in every mobile role.
• Feeble ~99 MJ base shields mean the armour is the tank — stack HRPs and boosters, don't chase a big shield.
• Mind the large pad and ~16–20 LY jump — no outposts, no exploration, slow trade loops.
• It has AX, combat, mining and trading manuals too — this one is the balanced fight-and-haul build.