The Star Barge is a small freighter from Syndicated Shipyards. It is one of the three ships available at the start of the game, along with the Sparrow and the Shuttle.
Description[]
The Syndicate CT-50 Star Barge is little more than a cluster of cargo containers with an engine at one end and a cockpit on the other. It is a slow and ugly ship, but it can carry enough cargo to earn its captain a steady income even in parts of the galaxy where it is hard to find passengers to carry or courier missions. Because they often carry valuable cargo, and because they are too slow to evade any attackers, Star Barges are a common target of pirates.
Location[]
Star Barges can be purchased at the following ports:
- Ada, Aldebaran
- Chiron, Alpha Centauri
- Clark, Seginus
- Delve, Scheat
- Foundry, Achernar
- Freedom, Almaaz
- Glaze, Aldhibain
- Hephaestus, Markab
- Luna, Sol
- Mainsail, Alhena
- Midgard, Aludra
- New Boston, Rutilicus
- New Britain, Dabih
- New Tortuga, Misam
- Reunion, Caph
- Rust, Kraz
- Shangri-La, Polaris
- Sunracer, Mirfak
- Tinker, Diphda
- Valhalla, Epsilon Leonis
- Wayfarer, Tarazed
- Zug, Zubeneschamali
- Geminus, Castor (before the bombing)
- Greenwater, Fah Soom (Available 180 days after completing the Expanding Business mission chain)
Outfits[]
These are the standard outfits initially equipped on a Star Barge.
| Guns |
|---|
| None |
| Turrets |
| Anti-Missile Turret |
| Secondary Weapons |
| None |
| Systems |
| D14-RN Shield Generator Hyperdrive |
| Power |
| nGVF-BB Fuel Cell LP036a Battery Pack |
| Engines |
| X1700 Ion Thruster X1200 Ion Steering |
Performance Information[]
The price of the Star Barge is in between the cost of the other starter ships, and the player should account for this when choosing the player's first ship. A Star Barge has the largest cargo hold of the three options and it has three bunks, which leaves it tied in passenger capacity with the Sparrow. With that being said, its passenger capacity lags behind the six bunks of the Shuttle.
The barge allows the player to move cargo for a very low price. The drawback to this ship is that a Star Barge has the worst speed, turning and acceleration of the three starting ships, giving it difficulty outrunning pirates. The player can scrap the anti-missile turret and shield generator in exchange for more bunk rooms in order to double up on profits by being a passenger transport. This will, however, make the Star Barge even more fragile than it already is at first purchase.