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Freighters and You: the definitive guide to playing with really big toys.

First, before the question is even asked, Freighters do NOT have a jump drive, and thus warp and gate-jump perfectly normally just like any smaller class ship. What this also means is that should you want to, you can warp a freighter to an asteroid belt or planet, or basically anything in deep space just like any other ship normally could.

HOWEVER, there is a caveat with freighters. You can only ever load the cargo bay while in a station. So for mining operations they are all but useless unless you wanted to haul the yields from a mining operation from one station to another, then their capacity is tremendously useful as it would take nearly 30 hauls in an iteron 5 with perfect rig of expanders to match what an Obelisk could do in one haul with default skill bonuses.

Another use that Freighters are aligned towards is of course outpost building. Without the freighter, it’s just not in the cards.

Freighters are really intended for the necessities of the largest operations. That’s not to say that solo players and small groups can’t or couldn’t find use for them, but larger operations are where they really shine since they will likely need hauling of many hundreds of thousands of M3 in “stuff” daily, and so the freighters perfectly fit the need.