Requirements:
- Be competent in FA-off
- Be competent in Cold Orbiting
- Understand basic Thargoid Mechanics

Great anti-xeno companion ship for competitive anti-xeno hunters. Able to destroy Medusa and Hydra variants due to great hardpoint placements and maneuverability.

Shieldless build to maximize performance and lethal potential.

Competitive Xeno Combat

High end Hull tanking Chieftain.

No Shield,
10k Hull and Chaff are used to keep you alive. Guardian Module Reinforcement and 
Lifesupport engineering in place to keep your internals operational with a AMFU.

Uses some multicannons set with incindiary rounds to take down shields on the Class 2 and 2/3 Class 1 Slots.

Pure Hull Tank with 10k Hull

Another Take on a High Engineered PVE Chieftain.

Uses Overcharged on the Multicannons for Damage.

Also carries a collector limpet with 4 limpet capacity to grab really valuable engineering materials that drop from killing big/rare ships.

PVE Engineered v2.0

One of the best ships for starting and learning combat in Elite. Features:
- Lots of Hull Strength via Hull reinforcements.
- Light Bi-Weave shields that soak up a bit of damage before dropping but recover very very fast (this is the advantage of Bi-Weave Shields)
- Uses Fixed Pulse Lasers against shields giving new pilots a feel for Fixed weapons that can always hit even if your enemy is using chaff.
- Good amount of Module Reinforcement to protect your internal modules. The Chief's weakness is vulnerable modules, this counters that.
- Carries a heat sink for the few times it overheats from constant weapon fire.
- Small Fuel Scoop for getting around. Alternately this can be swapped for a Auto Field Maintenance Unit for module repair on longer combat runs.

Heat Sink Launcher

Unengineered Chieftain 2.0

Coriolis.io

One of the best ships for starting and learning combat in Elite. Features:
- Lots of Hull Strength via Hull reinforcements.
- Light Bi-Weave shields that soak up a bit of damage before dropping but recover very very fast (this is the advantage of Bi-Weave Shields)
- Uses Fixed Pulse Lasers against shields giving new pilots a feel for Fixed weapons that can always hit even if your enemy is using chaff.
- Good amount of Module Reinforcement to protect your internal modules. The Chief's weakness is vulnerable modules, this counters that.
- Carries a heat sink for the few times it overheats from constant weapon fire.
- Auto Field Maintenance Unit for module repair on longer combat runs. Alternatively, this can be swapped for a Small Fuel Scoop for getting around.

Unengineered Chieftain 2.0 w/ AFMU

This is the recommended and updated AX Chieftain for 2021.

Long range

Thermal vent

Corrosion Resistant

Heavy duty

Deep Plating

Increased range

Mass Manager

Lightweight

Charge enhanced

Cluster Capacitors

Armoured

Thermal Spread

Dirty

Drag Drives

Ammo capacity

Shutdown Field Neutraliser

2021 AX Chieftain

Recommended 2021 AX Hydra Chieftain Build

Xeno Scanner

2021 AX Hydra Chieftain

the workhorse of the Goliath Dreadfleet the Exterminatus specializes in hyper close range dogfighting and any range less than 1KM and Ramming lots of ramming pure Hull tank disabling the shields to have sys charge for heatsinks is perfectly acceptable as the shields are optional 

High capacity

Corrosive shell

Oversized

Overcharged

Point Defence

sanctionedexterminatus

Sanctionedexterminatus

Utilizes a 3A Prismatic shield and E Rated shield boosters to have a solid shield while maintaining a 77 LY jump range with all the fixings. Massively engineered build.

Jumpaconda (77 Ly) with a ~1000 MJ shield

Jumpaconda (76.1 Lyrs but with SRV)

explorconda

Reinforced

Multi-weave

Engine focused

Super Conduits

Resistance augmented

Thermo Block

passangerconda

one for the VIPs to go like 20000 lys out

passangerconda long range

A anaconda build i made so I can rescue players and if you are going to be a far rescuer of rats and seals I would recommend this build

Rescue anaconda

Damn good starting Explorer Build focusing on jump range. However given the available internal slots one may want to consider the Krait Phantom instead.

General AspX Explorer Unengineered

HGE specialized farmer w/ Engineering (Max)

HGE specialized farmer

Bubble Hopper and Salvage ship for chasing down High Grade Emissions and other signals in space.

Key Features:

- Extremely fast turn rate in Supercruise making it ideal for chasing High Grade Emissions for getting lots of manufactured materials in space. 
- Carries a 3B Collector Limpet controller and up to 40 Limpets for farming significant numbers of engineering materials quickly and staying out for a long time.
- 27 LY Jump Range Unladen and 22LY Jump range when full of Limpets or Cargo.
- Very cheap to summon to yourself from any ship yard anywhere in the bubble.


Advanced Docking Computer

Supercruise Assist

ASP UnEngineered HGE Chaser 2.0

support for some AX ship your friend is flying so your friend can focus on killing why you kill swarms

AX swarm killa

Hull Tank Mine Bomber.

A wing of these will fill the sky with mines crashing into an opponent smashing them with explosives and keeping them from jumping away.

PvP Mine Bomber Build. 

Has FSD engineering ONLY this is for starters or pros that wants to play in

Deep Charge

Jumpacobra

Heavier version of the jump cobra with more advanced modules and has ability to kill a settelment when PD is disabled

Ody cobra

Can leave off most of the engineering if desired, but may then require a different power plant. Ship also works well as a bubble bus.

Enhanced low power

Lo-draw

Expanded Probe Scanning Radius

Detailed Surface Scanner

Stripped Down

Low emissions

Explorer Diamondback

Explorer Diamondback (68 LY)

Starting Diamond Back Explorer. Almost 36 LY range and everything one needs to start Exploration.
- Like most exploration ships it has a strong Frame Shift Drive (FSD) and D rated modules in most other places to conserve weight (D rated modules are lighter then other options).
- Important Note: Uses a smaller Power Plant for increased Jump Range, to manage this some modules are kept powered off during flight. To power off a module go to your right panel (default key 4) and set them to inactive.
- This ship can be bought and assembled in Sanopijcha; Maire City. The 4A Fuel Scoop and 4D Thrusters which are not sold at Maire City can be purchased from the Carrier USC Wastage in system.

Systems Kept Powered off During Flight: When you use them come to a complete stop shut down your thrusters and power these up instead. 
- Planetary Vehicle Hanger: A Surface Vehicle that lets you drive around on planets. There are tutorials on how to do this if you are unfamiliar.
- Auto Field Maintenance Unit: Allows you to repair Module Damage. A common thing to do to boost your jump range by flying through the jet cone of neutron / white dwarf stars which damages your frame shift drive but drastically increases your jump range for one jump. This will let you repair your FSD and other damaged modules out in the black with ease.
- Repair Limpet Controller: In cases where you damage your hull from bumping into a planet or stellar objects (rare but it happens) this will let you repair your hull. Note; You generally do not carry limpets but sythisize them from raw materials while out in the black for the few times you need them.

Other key systems:
- Detailed Surface Scanner: Lets you scan the surface of planets and map them with launched Probes.
- Large Fuel Scoop for scooping fuel from stars quickly.
- Supercruise assist for auto-dethrottling when you jump to a new star.
- Does not carry a Docking Computer so manual landing is gonna be key.
- Carries some E Rated Shield boosters to give you slightly more shield for occasional bumps and bruises while landing.

DBX UnEngineered Explorer 2.0

extended range version of the dolphin with some more missiles available

odyssey DBX

long range variant of the dolphin with more missiles available

Corvette Killer

A dolphin with low rest heat and is able to raid a settlement with missiles

odyssey dolphin

the Pride of the Goliath Dreadfleet the Hammer delivers Death from 0.5-3Km with your ideal range being 0.75-1.5Km and minor wing support with regen beams 

USC Hammer of Goliath

corvette made for long time combat at RES sites

PvE corvette

get your refuges out from the burning station

rescue corvette

Efficient Heal Beams used for keeping your Wing Buddies Shields up.

While Long Range Regen Beams would be better it just overheats too much in that configuration as the FDL is a heater ship.

Could be done with Long Range G3 Heal Beams and keeping FSD offline in combat while watching heat.

Power plant is sized for lower heat as well with this build in mind.

Wing Fighter with Efficient Heal Beams

Relies on an Overcharged G2 Power plant + a pair of G3 Long Beams with Thermal Vent to keep it cool while fighting.

You will have to watch your weapon power a bit when you fire all weapons continuously but it's very managable.

Solo PVE Combat

Endurance oriented FDL that never needs ammo for its weapons:
- Requires really high end engineering including a trip to Colonia
- Uses Plasma Slug for its Huge Plasma Accelerator so it burns fuel instead of having 100 PA shots.
- Uses Gimbled Efficient Thermal Vent Beams to dump heat quickly and effectively.
- Should only have to go rearm if fuel gets low or you run out of Shield Cell bank Ammunition.
- Alternate variation: Swap the SCB's for Guardian Shield Reinforcements and change the shield's experimental to High Cap. If you run out of shields you run away.

FDL Endurance 3.0p

PvE, PvP FDL

Clipping HGE Farmer

Very Fast Bubble Hopper; Built for Speed and quick turning to grab High Grade Emissions quickly.

-Swapping the Guarding FSD out for a Class 3 Cargo works pretty well.

Pro's:
-Very Speed and Turning, practically a racing ship.
-High Jump Range
-Ideal bubble Taxi since you can fly somewhere to retrieve another ship and ship it back to you for cheap.

Cons:
-Requires a lot of Engineering
-Squishy, shields are paper and you will blow up if you hit things at high speed.
-Runs a bit hot fuel Scooping so you have to pay attention.
-Doesn't carry at ton of limpets for collecting high grade emissions you generally have to refill after 1-2 sets of filling up.

Fast Bubble Taxi and HGE Salvage

As previous bubble hopper but with higher focused shields a torpedo pylon and lightweight low power draw packhounds to deal with attackers just because why not...

Bubble Hopper V4, Significantly Enhanced

Not recommended unless you love the courier or want a ship that can double as a racer.

Drive Distributors

Enhanced Performance

Explorer Courier

Explorer Courier (45 LY, fast in real space)

Courier Ground Scout / Assault Ship Focused on being a fast small profile ship.
- Ideal ship for farming Odyssey Crashed ships and ground based signal sources with a detailed surface scanner and 2 SRV bays.
- Incredibly strong shields for a small ship, small profile means it can land quickly and easily almost anywhere.
- Mine Launchers to quickly saturation bomb ground bases while staying fast and maneuverable enough to avoid enemy fire.
- Dumbfire Missile Rack to quickly kill ground troops in Odyssey

Courier Ground Scout/Assault 1.4p

High Speed Courier Explorer with Anti-Ground Capabilities
- Focus is on speed and utility as an exploration ship.
- Has all the fixings for a proper exploration ship with 40 LY except a repair limpet. Hull damage or Losing the SRV will require heading back to a port.
- Mines and Missiles for dealing with Odyssey based Ground opposition.

Courier Explorer/Ground 5.1p

As per the Ground Explorer but trades the cargo bay for higher shields.

Courier Explorer/Ground 4.3p

672T cargo Cutter - No Engineering

High end badass mining cutter.

Note: It's worth leaving a 5A Fuel Scoop and 5H Guardian Frame Shift booster at a nearby station or carrier. When it is time sell swap out a pair of your collector limpets for those to bring your jump range up for going to sell.

High End Engineered Mining Cutter

Can remove the Fighter bay for another Collector Limpet

Has a fighter bay to help with aggro and support.

Engineered Mining Cutter for HighRes/HazRes

High End Ridiculous Trading Cutter

Shielded Cargo Transporter

672T cargo Cutter

Has enough power to swap out 2 cargo racks for a fuel scoop and FSD booster if you need to get around a bit. Shieldless, but has slight defence if you mess up avoiding interdiction.

Chaff Launcher

Cargo Cutter

Cargo Cutter (784T, unengineered)

Has enough power to swap out 2 cargo racks for a fuel scoop and FSD booster if you need to get around a bit.

Monstered

Cargo Cutter (784T)

Ridiculous High End Engineered Combat Cutter
- Shields are solid using Prismatics, fully engineered Shield Cell Banks from Colonia and focused on High MJ/Health for effective resist on PA and Ramming.
- Relies on Packhounds for High DPS for a limited period of time.

Prism Shield Tank 2.1P

792T carfo transporter NO SHIELDS its for some of those that are new to engineering and dont have a whole bunch of mats it has FSD and drives engineered I use this to trade now

Trader cutter

Trader cutter(shieldless)

High end miner has laser mining kits for laser mining heavily engineered prismatic shield can be changed to normal or bi weave

Laser miner cutter

Has a core mining kit same as its sister ship laser miner its heavily engineered

Core mining cutter

Boost in to your target it only has .75 ly of range so dont plan to go anywhere in this ship

Shield tank boost killer

Cutter change the scoop after arriving to Pleiades and it might be a good racing ship since 507 m/s

AX imperial cutter

G3 Canyon Racing w/ Dirty Drag Enhanced drives

G0 Canyon Racing

Race imp eagle

Sturdy

Plasma Slug

Imperial Hammer

Thermal shock

Cytoscrambler

Super Capacitors

Conda killa

This is a racer designed for the SRV > SLF > Mothership relay race.

You can choose any Ship Launched Fighter that you desire, though the Gutamaya fighter is recommended.

Keelback Racer - G0

Wing Support Fighter; Heals/Repairs and collector.

Basic Combat Krait with Fighter + Collector

Anti-Xeno

Requirements:
- Be involved with light Xeno Combat
- Must be engineered completely
- Must be able to manage PIPs efficiently and effectively.

For CMDRs who wants a casual approach to Xeno Combat. Great for taking out Cyclops and Basilisks.

Struggles with Medusa and harder due to heat and boost-maneuverability problems. Shields is also the prime suspect here for depleting systems capacitor.

Casual Xeno Combat

Meant to fly in wings this Krait is intended to provide a good mix of firepower, maneuverability and support capabilities for keeping your wing mates shields and hulls repaired.
- Class 2 Efficient Heal Beams and Class 3A Repair Limpets for Support capabilities.
- Carries a fighter bay the Imperial Gelid GU-97 (Fixed Beam) is recommended as will keep up with the ship and allow for fighter tagging and preventing enemies from using chaff.
- Uses Bi-Weave Shields for longevity with decent regen.

Krait Support Beamer 3.0

This ship is focused on collecting materials from NPC ships in combat and to be achievable with early game engineers. A bit weaker on it's own, it relies on it's fighter and wing allies to protect it. Key Features:
- Lightly Engineered: This ship can be built and engineered with the 4 of starting set of engineers Felicity Farseer, Elvira Martusk, Todd the Blaster McQuinn and The Dweller.
- 3B Collector Limpet to deploy 2 Collectors Limpets at once with a cargo capacity for 64 Limpets. Note; B rated Collector has a larger range then other collector limpets.
- Uses a fighter bay to tag enemies and distract enemy fire off the main ship. The Fixed Beam Gelid GU-97 is recommended for the fighter layout.
- Carries Regeneration Beams to repair wingmate's shields as such it's damage against shields is weaker but complimented by a beam based fighter it will do just fine.
- Uses Fully engineered Multi-Cannons with Auto-Loader and Corrosive Shells for taking down enemy hulls.
- While this ship can be done without engineering as well it will be slower, flimsy and run out of distributor power otherwise. If no engineering is available it is suggested to use the related build of the 
- Variations: the class 1 Module reinforcement slot can be swapped for a 1A Repair Limpet to repair hulls of yourself and allies.

Krait Light-Eng Collector 2.0

Since goids dont spawn swarms at surface sites this ship is specialized to that it doesnt have ANY flak launchers (because we dont need them) and it does have some guardian tech in so if you dont want to grind(like me) you can get weapons only

Surface settelment AX krait

This is a Krait Phantom Explorer built out with what you can engineer with just Felicity Farseer unlocked.

Krait Explorer 55LY Jump Range, Partially Eng

Solid great exploration ship focused on jump range.

Note it's supported by a 2A power plant for better weight for jumping. The AMFU, Vehicle bay and limpet controller should be powered off during flight.

Basic Explorer - no engineering

Fully Kitted out and engineered long range explorer focused on jump range.

While the Anaconda gets better jump range this one doesn't manuever quite like a boat.

Long Range Explorer with 67 LY Jump Range

Long Range Krait Explorer with decent shields and Anti-Ground Weapons:

- Uses Double Engineered Frameshift Drive to get 70 LY Jump Range (to have it reflect in Coriolis edit the FSD's Optimal Mass to be 1856.40)
- Carries Lightweight Mines and Dumbfire Missiles to deal with ground based threats (Odyssey)
- Uses a Prismatic Shield for more survivability and E rated shield Boosters.
- Carries 2 SRVs for longer term viability

Deep Range Grounder v4.1p

As per the shielded Deep Range Grounder but with 1 SRV bay and a larger cargo bay.

Deep Range Grounder v4.0p 1 SRV

material farmer krait phantom I personally hate this thing

mat farmer

material farmer

no eng mat

material grinder little engineering

General purpose Combat Mamba

PvE, PvP

256 Cargo Hauler

Cargo Hauler intended to land on medium landing pads to ferry things from a carrier or do smaller trade hops.

Could pair well with a big mining ship + carrier for drop of LTD's at high demand Medium landing pad stations. Fill up a big cargo hold on mining, use this to ferry it all for sale.

Achievable with only 3 Engineers (Farseer, Tod the Blaster and Elvira).

The intent is for players trying to get a leg up in combat to use this alongside veterans and scoop all the engineering materials as the fights progress. Carries 64 Limpets with a 5A collector for this purpose.

Combat Collecter for engineering Mats

Robigo passenger missions

Base Combat collector

256 Cargo Hauler, Engineering Optional

Enhanced version of the basic Mining Python Build.
- Achievable with just 2 of the starting engineers; Felcity Farseer and Elvira Martusk.
- Power Plant is slightly enhanced to match the increased power plant requirements.
- FSD is Engineered for greater range.
- Shields and Shield Boosters are enhanced for greater survivability.
- As per the unengineered version; focus is on filling your hold of 128T, going and selling and heading back to mine.

Thermal resistant

Hi-Cap

Quick Fill Miner Upgraded 3.0

This is an optimised mining build for the Python. No engineering is needed but some of the components can take some finding, use inara to locate them.

To mine load the ship up with about 75% limpets and head out to a mining spot, usually a planet with rings. Use the detailed surface scanner on the rings to identify the best places to mine. Head into the ring. Use the pulse wave analyser to highlight asteroids with high value minerals and metals. Fire a prospecting limpet at the asteroid while travelling at slow speed and straight ahead. Move into range. The mining lasers are the quickest way of extracting, set them on fire group one, set the collection limpet controllers on fire group 2. Blast away and release the limpets to collect the pieces. The refinery will then extract the minerals and deposit them in your hold.

Abrasion Blaster: Some deposits appear on the surface, should be obvious from the icon. Target the deposit and fire the abrasion blaster at it to knock off a high value chunk. This can take some practice.

Sub Surface Displacement Missile: Target the sub-surface deposit. Fire the missile into it and keep the trigger pressed. A chart will start scrolling, release when the graph is high and the line is passing a blue block. (Should be obvious.)

Seismic Charge Launcher: Some asteroids have high value cores. These need to be blown apart to access the minerals. Check on youtube for instructions.

Build Detail

Explorer Diamondback (68 LY)

Ship Image by CMDR Qohen Leth via Copyright CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 (available on edassets.org)

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