Special · Heavy Assault Cruiser

Bestla

A Special Heavy Assault Cruiser focused on missiles and armor or shields. 4 launchers, 2 turrets, 3,000 shield. Omega-only.

FactionΩ Omega onlyMissilesCombatArmor or Shields

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Clone state

Ω Omega only

requires Omega

Needs Minmatar Cruiser V, which an Alpha can only train to IV.

CCP base price

141.90M ISK

reference price, not market

No blueprint in the SDE.

Hull stats

high / med / low6 / 5 / 5

rig slots2

CPU / powergrid500 tf / 1,300 MW

turrets2

launchers4

drone bay125 m³ 20 Mbit/s

shield3,000

armor3,000

structure1,500

capacitor1,500 GJ 200 s

max velocity300 m/s

warp speed4 AU/s

align time7.6 s

signature radius120 m

scan resolution340 mm

target range80 km

cargo660 m³

mass11,650 t

volume96,000 m³

Bonuses

Role bonuses

+500% bonus to Stasis Webifying Drone Stasis Webifier effectiveness

+500% bonus to Stasis Webifying Drone hitpoints

+50% bonus to Stasis Webifying Drone max velocity

Can fit Assault Damage Controls

Minmatar Cruiser — per level

+10% bonus to Light Missile, Heavy Missile and Heavy Assault Missile damage

+10% bonus to Shield Booster and Armor Repairer amount

Heavy Assault Cruisers — per level

+10% bonus to Heavy Missile and Heavy Assault Missile explosion velocity

+10% bonus to Light Missile, Heavy Missile and Heavy Assault Missile Launcher rate of fire

Skill requirements

I Heavy Assault Cruisers rank 6

V Minmatar Cruiser rank 5

V Energy Grid Upgrades rank 2

III Minmatar Destroyer rank 2

V Spaceship Command rank 1

V Weapon Upgrades rank 2

II Gunnery rank 1

III Minmatar Frigate rank 2

II Power Grid Management rank 1

I Science rank 1

Minimum plan Mastery V plan

Mastery

23Grade I

38Grade II

46Grade III

53Grade IV

55Grade V

Skills required for each mastery grade. Open the tree to see the full training plan against your character.

Description

The Bestla was originally the product of a development program that involved the eccentric and often clashing talents of Tapio Histvaari, Core Complexion's Chief of Missile Systems Development, and Hildara Rostavik, Core's Lead Designer of Autonomous Weapons. The program was an effort to cram as much missile firepower as possible into the Bestla heavy assault cruiser, and its Geri assault frigate counterpart, while also supporting the sophisticated control routines and bandwidth to operate stasis webification drones with massively uprated systems.

Despite serious personality clashes between the Caldari missiles expert Histvaari and Minmatar drone designer Rostavik, the Bestla was brilliantly redesigned from its basic Rupture-hull format into an incredibly advanced, and incredibly expensive, heavy assault cruiser. While the performance of the Bestla's missiles and stasis drones was far above anything achieved in combination in such a compact format, the Republic Fleet balked at the prospect of paying for whole squadrons made up of the Bestla and the similarly expensive Geri.

Although a few Bestlas are maintained by elite special tasks units of the Republic, a significant number of the initial production run were donated as prizes to the Independent Gaming Commission's Alliance Tournament XVIII by the Minmatar when the Republic became the principal sponsor of the event in YC124.