Fleet Carriers

• 5 billion credits to buy. Save about 7 billion so you can afford services, cargo, and a bank buffer.
• Weekly upkeep runs 5M with nothing installed, up to about 30M fully loaded.
• 500 ly per jump, always. The range never changes.
• 25,000 tons of cargo. 16 landing pads. One carrier per commander.
• Tritium is the fuel. The depot holds 1,000 tons. An empty carrier burns about 68 tons per 500 ly jump.
• A carrier does not make money. It makes everything else faster.
• Debt over 250M credits gets your carrier scrapped.

• Fortune, Nautilus, and Victory classes change only the look, the class name, and the klaxon sound. Performance is identical.

Install or uninstall only in a Fleet Carrier Administration system. Find them on Inara.

Key insight: as the owner, you already get refuel, repair, rearm, ship storage, and module storage for free. Those services exist for other people. If you fly alone, skip them and save millions a week.

Suspending a service costs about half its active upkeep. Turn off what you are not using. Bank buffer: keep several months of upkeep in the carrier bank. Debt over 250 million gets the carrier automatically decommissioned.

Warning: you can jump your carrier somewhere it cannot leave without help. Always plot your return trip before you go.

1. 1Open Fleet Carrier Management, Navigation tab. You can do this remotely.
2. 2Click Open Galaxy Map, find your target, and press Set Carrier Destination.
3. 3To pick a specific body, open the system map from the galaxy map first. You need system data for that.
4. 4A timer starts. It is never shorter than 15:06 and gets longer with server traffic.
5. 5You can cancel above 10 minutes.
6. 6At 3:20, lockdown starts. All services suspend, ships get pulled into hangars, on-foot passengers get seated. Nothing can land or launch.
7. 7After arrival there is a cooldown before the next jump.

• Your own ships in the shipyard
• Your own modules in outfitting
• Tritium in the fuel depot
• Odyssey materials on the carrier

• Installed services
• Ship and module stock packs you buy to sell
• Everything else

• Set buy and sell orders in Carrier Management, Commodity Trading, Manage Market.
• Buy orders cannot exceed 2 billion credits at once. Lower the price or renew later.
• Sell orders stay open after stock runs out, invisibly. To close one properly, set a buy order for 1 unit, then untick the commodity.
• Transferring is easiest from your ship's Inventory panel. "Transfer all from carrier" only works if your ship can hold everything.

Buy one when it makes something you already do faster. Not before.

A carrier does not earn money on its own. Its value is saved time.

1. 1Pick your services. Refuel and Repair are essential. Armoury for heat sinks and limpets. Cartographics, Vista Genomics, and Redemption Office so you can cash in without flying home. Shipyard and Outfitting only if others are coming.
2. 2Plot the route with Spansh, including the return trip.
3. 3Load Tritium in the bubble. Enough for out, back, and extras.
4. 4Emergency backup: STAR Carriers sell Tritium in deep space at high prices.
5. 5Do not plan to mine Tritium. It is a last resort.
6. 6First expedition? Try about 5,000 ly first. Carriers move slowly, and this style of play is not for everyone.

You get 5 billion back, minus a 150 million fee, plus whatever is in the carrier bank.

• Before you do it:
• Go to a Fleet Carrier Administration system.
• Sell all module and ship stock. You do not get credits back otherwise.
• Uninstall every service. Same reason.
• Sell or move all commodities. They are supposed to auto-sell at galactic average, but that behavior is unreliable.
• Tritium in the depot is lost.
• Decommission in an empty system so you do not block parking.
• Stored ships and modules can be transferred to any station with a shipyard or outfitting for free. You can cancel while the decommission is still pending, usually until the next weekly maintenance.

• Debt over 250 million means automatic decommissioning.
• Owner services are free. Do not pay weekly for refuel and repair if you fly alone.
• Tritium can only be loaded from a docked ship.
• Range is always 500 ly. Nothing increases it.
• One jump at a time.
• Redemption, Secure Warehouse, and Cartographics all take a 25% cut.
• You can strand your carrier. Plan the return trip.
• Power Security Force NPCs are aggressive at carriers if you are in Powerplay (Module 12).