Regular freighters

What shapes can a regular freighter have? This page puts a regular freighter together from its parts. Searching for a system is not built yet. Every shape here is one the game makes: the game takes one part from every list on its own, so no pick is a ship that cannot exist.

How to use it

Pick the hull first. Click a part of the ship, or a name under it, to see its choices; each tile draws its part. A freighter's colours are its system's, not its hull's, so they are not part of the shape: pick a hull and a trim colour from the game's own palette to see the ship in them, or leave them open and it stays grey.

A regular freighter has a box hull, with stacked cargo sections and an upper or lower row of single sections behind them, or a spine hull, a long tube of sections that ends in a bridge, a disc, a sphere, or a ring. A ship shows one kind of container in every section of one place, the first the game picks: twin tanks, crates, spheres, or a covered hangar on a spine, and discs, boxes, or cylinders on a box hull, picked apart for the lower and upper halves of its sections, for its row, and for its end. A box hull always shows at least two sections, because its shortest form closes the first one with an end section that carries containers too. The length also sets the size: a regular freighter is small, except a box hull of five or six sections and a spine of five, which are medium.

Getting a regular freighter

A regular freighter is bought from a fleet. Fleets warp into every kind of system, so you can look for your shape anywhere: look over each fleet that arrives until you see it. The same fleets sell frigates, and each new fleet brings new ones.

Shape and class

The class is rolled again each time a fleet arrives, so the shape tells you nothing about the class. How often a regular freighter comes at each class depends on the wealth of the system. the capital freighters page shows the shapes of the freighters a space battle saves, and the Sentinel Interceptors page the shapes of crashed Sentinel ships.