Ships & Modules

Entirely different ships for entirely different purposes.

You'll generally get more mileage out of the viator, though. The deep space transports are honestly too slow to do their job properly.

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Anyhow, I use both, living out of a C1 with LS static. Basically the Viator gets used all the time. It will fly through almost anything. It can fly full speed cloaked, over 1000m/s with MWD. Can be setup to align as fast as a stock frigate. I imagine in null with bubbles you will have close to the same survivability as a covert ops.

The DST aligns slow as ****. It can be setup with enough EHP to usually survive a small camp while burning back to the gate.

Basically we only use the DST when we get an exit in a quiet part of LS close to HS. In general I'd say the blockade runners see use 15+ times a month. The DST maybe once every couple of months.

both are viable if you use proper scouting.

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Blockade Runners are superb, and useful in hisec, lowsec, and nullsec.

I have a viator on my alt. For hisec I use a shield buffer and either nanos or cargo expanders. I can fit 3 giant containers for about 12k m3, while still moving through hisec extremely fast due to fast warp speed and high agility. Short of being exceptionally unlucky, you are immune to suicide ganks or the other dangers of hisec.

If you don't need the full cargo, you can fit nanos or warp stabs. If you swap the LSE and MSE for a mwd you can go exceptionally fast. Combined with your cloak you can run almost any lowsec camp unscouted, or cloak +mwd back to your entrance gate and escape.

You can move about nullsec with near impunity. However, if you are lazy and warp into a drag bubble, you will die.


Deep space transports have a much smaller role. They aren't good for moving high value cargo in hisec, they can be caught much easier in lowsec. Much of their role is taken by that of a freighter. The advantage is having 3x the cargo space. I'd say its ideal for moving large volumes distances of a few jumps, or moving ore to a pos or refinery, or fueling poses. Places where you're unlikely to get caught, you need the versatility of an industrial, but a freighter doesn't work, and a blockade runner isn't big enough. Somewhere where the +2 warp strength will save you from that afk cloaker that becomes active as you move through doing your stuff.