Small Ships OXZ

FE Shipyards

We are delighted to be able to offer our valued customers a collection of serviceable and essentially unmodified examples of the classic and increasingly hard to acquire Asp, Fer-de-Lance, Gecko, Krait, Mamba, Sidewinder, Constrictor, Viper, Viper Interceptor, Worm, and Transporter.

Those craft originally sans Hyperdrive now have one installed; those without cargo space remain without.

New Prices

Revised price adjustments have been applied and, given these ships' impending obsolescence—offset by their collector appeal—we believe they are priced fairly for discerning clients. Our valuation is grounded in the mass, cargo capacity, and speed of the venerable Cobra Mk III. FE Shipyards is pleased to pass these savings on to you:


[Adder]: 			 60,696 Cr
[Asp Mk II]:		 	 95,981 Cr
[Cobra Mk I]: 		 	 84,936 Cr
[Cobra Mk III]:			157,572 Cr (base of comparison) 
[Constrictor]: 			154,051 Cr
[Fer-de-Lance]:		 	 96,369 Cr
[Gecko]:			 71,432 Cr
[Krait]:			 87,562 Cr
[Mamba]:			 80,498 Cr
[Moray]:			 91,178 Cr
[Sidewinder]:		 	 77,352 Cr
[Shuttle]:			 85,581 Cr
[Transporter]:		 	 48,577 Cr
[Viper]:			 70,460 Cr
[Viper Interceptor]:	        109,032 Cr

On sale with valuations exactly as quoted at our Lave, Tionisla, and Anarlaqu showrooms. Small Ships with no additional equipment - apart from the Advanced Space Compass, Injectors, and Hyperdrive installed as standard - are labelled 'standard customer model'.

Matters Technical

For those curious as to how we derived and applied the three weightings algorithmically, we present the Javascript function that returned the above prices.


// Calculate a rationalized price for any ship, using cobra3 as a baseline
this._rationalizedPrice = function(shipSize, cargoCapacity, shipMaxSpeed) {
    const COBRA_SIZE = { x: 130, y: 30, z: 65 };   
    const COBRA_CARGO = 20;
    const COBRA_MAX_SPEED = 350; // LS
    const COBRA_PRICE = 150000;

    const shipVolume = shipSize.x * shipSize.y * shipSize.z;
    const cobraVolume = COBRA_SIZE.x * COBRA_SIZE.y * COBRA_SIZE.z;

    const volumeMultiplier = shipVolume / cobraVolume;
    const cargoMultiplier = cargoCapacity / COBRA_CARGO;
    const speedMultiplier = shipMaxSpeed / COBRA_MAX_SPEED;

    // Current weighting: 25% volume, 30% cargo, 45% speed
    const combinedMultiplier = (volumeMultiplier * 0.25) + (cargoMultiplier * 0.3) + (speedMultiplier * 0.45);

    return Math.round(COBRA_PRICE * combinedMultiplier);
}