Crusader Ares Star Fighter Ion
Crusader Industries · Heavy Fighter · Medium
The Crusader Ares Star Fighter Ion is a medium ship by Crusader Industries. Its role is heavy fighter. One person flies it. It is sold for 4,725,000 aUEC at New Deal Crusader in Stanton. On RSI's pledge store it is $250.
Spark fear in the corridors of the most formidable gunships and frigates with the Ares Ion. This laser-equipped variant delivers extremely powerful shots to quickly disable the shields of even the biggest enemy vessels.
Where to buy it
Stanton
- New Deal Crusader (Crusader · Orison) — 4,725,000 aUEC, reported 26 Oct 2026
Stats
- Length: 30 m
- Beam: 27 m
- Height: 6 m
- Mass: 372,569 kg
- Hull HP: 38,600 HP
- Shield HP: 21,120 HP
- Shield regeneration: 4,012 HP/s
- Shield type: Bubble
- SCM speed: 205 m/s
- Top speed: 1,050 m/s
- Boost speed: 385 m/s
- Pitch: 36°/s
- Yaw: 36°/s
- Roll: 105°/s
- Quantum speed: 203,194.3 km/s
- Quantum range: 284.89 Gm
- Quantum spool time: 6.6 s
- Quantum fuel: 5.9 SCU
- Hydrogen fuel: 8.6 SCU
- Insurance claim: 10.3 min
- Expedited claim: 3.43 min
- Expedite cost: 7,311 aUEC
Default loadout
Weapons
- SF7E Cannon (S7)
Missiles and bombs
- 2 × MSD-543 Missile Rack
- 8 × Viper III Missile (S3)
- Ares Star Fighter Missile Launcher (S7)
- 12 × Arrester III Missile (S3)
Components
- 3 × Arctic (S2)
- 2 × FullStop (S2)
- Crossfield (S2)
- Excelsior (S2)
- Epier (S2)
- 2 × Maelstrom (S2)
- ComfortAir (S1)
Utility
Propulsion and fuel
- 2 × Internal Tank
- Flight Blade (S1)
Editions
On RSI's pledge store
- Standalone: $250
Shop prices are reported by players to UEX Corp and may be out of date: each says when it was last reported. Ship and item data from the Star Citizen Wiki; concept ships from RSI's ship matrix.