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Bestla

Traits

Type Bonuses

Minmatar Cruiser bonuses per level

Heavy Assault Cruisers bonuses per level

Role Bonuses

Basic

Mass:
11,650,000 kg
Packaged volume:
10,000 m3
Portion size:
1
Capacity:
660 m3
Volume:
96,000 m3
Mass:
11,650,000 kg
radius:
88 m

Cargo

Capacity:
660 m3

Rigging

Rig Size:
medium
Calibration:
400 points

Navigation

Maximum Velocity:
300 m/sec

Drones

Drone Bandwidth:
20 Mbit/sec

Insurance

Type Info

Type ID:
74316
Base price:
141.90m ISK
Capacity:
660 m3
Faction ID:
500002
Graphic ID:
25815
Meta group ID:
4
Published:
true
Race ID:
2
Radius:
88 m
Sof faction name:
tournament-xviii
Sof material set ID:
3103
Sound ID:
20076
Volume:
96,000 m3

Description

The Bestla was originally the product of a development program that involved the eccentric and often clashing talents of Tapio Histvaari, Core Complexion's Chief of Missile Systems Development, and Hildara Rostavik, Core's Lead Designer of Autonomous Weapons. The program was an effort to cram as much missile firepower as possible into the Bestla heavy assault cruiser, and its Geri assault frigate counterpart, while also supporting the sophisticated control routines and bandwidth to operate stasis webification drones with massively uprated systems.

Despite serious personality clashes between the Caldari missiles expert Histvaari and Minmatar drone designer Rostavik, the Bestla was brilliantly redesigned from its basic Rupture-hull format into an incredibly advanced, and incredibly expensive, heavy assault cruiser. While the performance of the Bestla's missiles and stasis drones was far above anything achieved in combination in such a compact format, the Republic Fleet balked at the prospect of paying for whole squadrons made up of the Bestla and the similarly expensive Geri.

Although a few Bestlas are maintained by elite special tasks units of the Republic, a significant number of the initial production run were donated as prizes to the Independent Gaming Commission's Alliance Tournament XVIII by the Minmatar when the Republic became the principal sponsor of the event in YC124.