EVE General Discussion

I was doing a little salvaging with my noctis and noticed the primae ship variant.
What on earth is this ship for?
It appears to have no ship traits which makes it almost unique in that regard. Two weird holds, one just for PI command centres, and another just for PI products, although so small if you are using it for this purpose then you are doing PI wrong.
The ship looks like a relic from a bye gone age of Eve.
It's a special edition ship, that serves no purpose, but didn't get converted to a skin.
Is it just one of those old relics that is there to remind us of days gone past, or an unloved forgotten artefact sitting dust covered on a back room shelf perchance to be discovered by future generations one day?
It's also missing from the in game Interbus Ship Identification System which makes me think it really has been forgotten. It could be a stealth ship :)

I get the Prima Nocta gag, but to be half of a gag seems to be the ship's greatest purpose.

Thanks for the info. I thought it might be something like that.
They are pretty cheap so I bought a few just in case they do decide to do something with them.
Very weird ship though, I bet most of CCP has forgotten it even exists.

at the moment it's only purpose appears to be half of a joke, it's not even a whole joke on it's own :)

I like the idea of giving the ship a purpose and with Fozzie sov making 0.0 a lot more dangerous it could very easily find a niche for helping PIers in 0.0 mitigate the new higher risk, however there's a problem.

Being a give away ship there is no way to manufacture more. It would have to be converted from a special edition to a standard ship that could be manufactured. Under normal circumstances this would upset current owners of the special ship because converting a ship from limited quantity status to manufacturable normally causes the price to go down. However these things are currently on the market for 7-8 mill each whilst the useful Noctis is worth 10 times that on the market. So a conversion from junk to useful wouldn't hurt existing holders.

I even tried to see if they could be reprocessed into minerals worth more than their buy price but they appear to have no reprocess list of materials.

"Every other ship does the Primae's job better than the Primae" - Saraell Tellon, 2012

That is the only entry on "Primae" in my brain rolodex.

Wasn't the Primae the first model to have moving parts? (The boom/ring around the center rotates.)

Its main purpose is to look cool while not doing a lot

The Primae is like Jamyl Sarum, both relics of a bygone era.

The Primae was never a good ship. It wasn't good when it was added, and it's not good now. But it was free. Would be nice if they buffed all the gift ships to be something nice, but I doubt it.. I mean the Zepher has it's uses, but the rest don't.

Yeah I remember those because I bothered to keep all the othe--what the **** is an Echelon