The X3 XCavator

This Blueprint was updated 4/23 to Add Sentry turrets & and reshaping for a seamless transition from Mining, to combat ship. Resource cost and statistic photos have been updated. Kicks significantly more drone butt with the added sentries. Enjoy. - Art

The X3: Xcavator; something completely new.

The Xcavator is a completely Novel Starter design. Combining an Ultra-low cost, Ultra-low Spawn-in-timer, a spawn in Level of 12, with the ability to Drill effectively and easily at Level 15 with the acquisition of just 1 Power coil! ( 8 zascosium alloy ). The Xcavator is made specifically to deliver you the fastest, easiest progression through the game of any available starter CV.

Not just Cheap, Ultra-cheap AND full featured. With a Spawn-in-timer just over 2 hours, and abcolute minimal resource requirements, The Xcavator makes it easy & fast to salvage down your spawn-in-timer to 0 Minutes. The Xcavator is the lightest, least expensive, full featured upgradeable airframe available, featuring full Med bay, Compact Shield generator, A full hangar, Factory production with 4 Constructors ( including Advanced ), 2 Defensive Minigun turrets, Armored cockpit & monohull, and nearly 200k of Available upgrade CPU!

Progression Made Easy. Immediately take this ship to a Dead world to salvage a single advanced thruster from a Crashed Capital vesssel or Unfinished escape rocket and construct your CV Mechanical drill using the onboard Advanced constructor, to become a full-function CV miner with impressive harvest rates, opening the end-game and upgrade options fast and early in your playthrough. With Mounted drill, the Excavator can collect the materials for a full-bore Core-9 CV in just a couple hours, salvage what you happen upon and mop up the rest of what you need with its onboard drill as you level seamlessly via exploration with the onboard detector. No expensive kits & no breaking rocks for hours to achieve levels 15-25.

A Novel Driller design. The Xcavator is the first Single-bit CV driller for Reforged Eden, but more than that, The Xcavator integrates a proprietary & novel Drill housing design that makes the CV Mechanical drill easy and intuitive to use. No more 'spray painting' the outside of an asteroid, & no collision-model problems from getting too close to the targetted asteroid, the X3's drill mount allows you to press directly against an asteroid, functioning identically to HV and SV mechnical drills, not only is this the only Driller that functions easily & intuitively, it's also the only mechnical driller which can penetrate deep into an asteroids core quickly, and was built length-specific to get all the way to the center of those pesky Gold asteroids. Meaning you can immediately start mining all rare ore types from asteroids at just level 15! Circumventing the need to Level to 20 to mount a Mining turret or Mining lasers, Level from 15-25 matter-of-factly using your detector as you explore asteroids and salvage wrecks, gathering the resources for your Core-9.

The Xcavator was built specifically to give you the fastest progression through the game, combining a completely novel Drill housing design, single-bit low cost drilling ability, Ultra low spawn in time, full-featured construction including shield, and factory production, this is revolutionary starter design built specifically to make your progression through the game simple and Lightning-fast!

Drill baby Drill! Art

Thank you to my good friend Shandril for helping me design & playtest this ship.