Ships

Drake Vulture

Drake Interplanetary · Light Salvage · Small

The Drake Vulture is a small ship by Drake Interplanetary. Its role is light salvage. One person flies it, and it carries 12 SCU of cargo. It is sold for 2,513,700 aUEC at New Deal Lorville in Stanton, the cheapest of 5 shops. It can be rented for 69,457 aUEC a day at Teach's Levski in Nyx. On RSI's pledge store it is $175.

Answer to no one, cut out the middle man, and throw caution to the wind. Rip wrecks like a pro and carve out your own place in the great big empty behind the stick of this rough, rugged salvage machine from Drake Interplanetary.

Where to buy it

Stanton

• New Deal Lorville (Hurston · Lorville) — 2,513,700 aUEC, reported 18 Oct 2026

Pyro

• Buy and Fly Checkmate (Monox · Checkmate Station) — 2,646,000 aUEC, reported 12 Oct 2026
• Buy and Fly Orbituary (Bloom · Orbituary) — 2,646,000 aUEC, reported 13 Oct 2026
• Buy and Fly Ruin Station (Terminus · Ruin Station) — 2,646,000 aUEC, reported 20 Oct 2026

Nyx

• Teach's Levski (Levski) — 2,778,300 aUEC, reported 12 Oct 2026

Where to rent it

What one day costs, as players reported it.

Nyx

• Teach's Levski (Levski) — 69,457 aUEC a day, reported 12 Oct 2026

Stats

• Length: 34 m
• Beam: 16 m
• Height: 9 m
• Mass: 189,009 kg
• Hull HP: 43,700 HP
• Shield HP: 4,320 HP
• Shield regeneration: 546.7 HP/s
• Shield type: Bubble
• SCM speed: 200 m/s
• Top speed: 1,100 m/s
• Boost speed: 350 m/s
• Pitch: 55°/s
• Yaw: 55°/s
• Roll: 125°/s
• Quantum speed: 219,200 km/s
• Quantum range: 155.17 Gm
• Quantum spool time: 5.3 s
• Quantum fuel: 0.9 SCU
• Hydrogen fuel: 4.8 SCU
• Insurance claim: 9 min
• Expedited claim: 3 min
• Expedite cost: 3,040 aUEC

Default loadout

Weapons

• 2 × VariPuck S1 Gimbal Mount (S1)
• 2 × CF-117 Bulldog Repeater (S1)

Components

• Surveyor-Lite (S1)
• 3 × Bulwark (S1)
• 2 × Thermax (S1)
• 2 × Fortitude (S1)
• Goliath (S1)
• Explorer (S1)
• ComfortAir (S1)

Utility

• Self Destruct Unit (S1)
• drak_vulture_salvage_arm_right (S1)
• 2 × Baler Salvage Head (S2)
• 2 × Cinch Scraper Module (S1)
• Abrade Scraper Module (S1)
• drak_vulture_salvage_arm_left (S1)
• ReadyGrip Tractor Module (S1)
• Aegis Gladius - Decoy Launcher
• Joker Defcon - Noise Launcher

Propulsion and fuel

• Flight Blade (S1)
• 3 × Internal Tank

On RSI's pledge store

• Standalone: $175
• Last warbond price seen: $165

Shop prices are reported by players to UEX Corp and may be out of date: each says when it was last reported.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.