EVE:Prorator
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Silver, shiny, and surprisingly swift. And it kind of looks like a cockroach. But it's a safe way to get a small amount of cargo through dangerous space.
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The Space Roach
Fitting
High Slots
- Prototype Cloaking Device
Mid Slots
- 10MN Microwarp Drive
- Cap Recharger II
Low Slots
- 2x Warp Core Stabilizers (maybe 4x if in Empire)
- Internal
- Nanofiber Internal Structure
Rigs
- Anything that you want. Cargo Rigs or Propulsion Rigs can work. Just watch the drawbacks.
Commentary
Blockade Runners, especially when they fill their lowslots with things to survive instead of cargo expanders, are unfortunately not blessed with a lot of cargo space. They can barely fit a single GSC (which can't contain courier packages), so they're about as useful at hauling large amounts of minerals and ships as a carrier jump isn't. You can pump up that cargo space, but if you're getting into that, you might as well go buy a Deep-Space Transport instead.
What they are good at, however, is moving those small, high-asset-value items through hostile space. Even after the Nano nerf, the setup aligns faster than a cruiser, goes nearly 1500 m/s with the MWD ignited, and gets into warp quickly. The modules of the ship have various but specific uses.
The mid and lowslots are your survival slots. In Empire, depending on your comfort level, you might want to go to a full 4 stabs, which will give you +6 warp core stability. It'll take a hostile gatecamp of quite some size to get 7 points on you in the limited time they'll have before you get into warp. In 0.0, you'll want the MWD, inertials, and nanos in order to have a fighting chance if you hit a bubble. The MWD will give you a shot to burn clear of the bubble before you die horribly. While the Prorator's armor repair bonus goes unused, the fact of the matter is that you're already in trouble if the repper is on.
The Cloak is for safespotting. If you're in a system that's too hot to get out of, drop to a safespot, fly the ship in a direction, put the cloak on, and start drinking beer. Once you wake up with a hangover, you'll probably be able to leave, but you won't have been probed out.
