With the Revelations 2.2.0 Patch, which has been deployed on Tuesday, the 28th of August, 2007 the Capital Industrial Ship named "Rorqual" was released.
Its main role should be giving gang boni and hauling and compressing ore.
For hauling it got the Capital Tractor beam, with a total range of 200km and a speed of 3000 m/s (Small Tractor beam: max. Range: 20km and maximum 500 m/s).
Yes, you heard right, it can compress ore to 5% or less of its original volume, 12,5% for Ice.
The compressed ore can be refined as the normal sized ore.
A new module has been added espaecially for this ship: the Industrial Core, some sort of Siege Module for the Industrial Capital.
That module gives Bonus to Capital Shield Transporters and Survey Scanner Range and requires Heavy Water as fuel.
Further it got a Corp Hangar, a Ship Maintenance Bay, a Clone Vat Bay able to fit 10 Clones at maximum skil level and a Jumpdrive.
These abilities make it a nice ship for Ninja mining ops in enemy space, just get 3 or 4 Hulks in the ship hangar, place your clones on the ship and jump into 0.0 space. Then mine there, compress the ore and jump back, until the ship is fully loaded.
For Jumping it needs Oxygen Isotopes, as the jumpdrive is borrowed from Gallente.
Greetings, Nico
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