---
esi_data:
  fitting_stats:
    cpu_output: 1200
    high_slots: 8
    low_slots: 4
    med_slots: 7
    powergrid_output: 420000
    rig_slots: 3
  group: Capital Industrial Ship
  hull_stats:
    hp_armor: 60000
    hp_shield: 90000
    hp_structure: 300000
  name: Rorqual
  race: Unknown
  skill_requirements:
  - level: 1
    skill_id: 28374
  - level: 2
    skill_id: 20533
  - level: 1
    skill_id: 3456
  type_id: 28352
  velocity: 60
image: /28352.png
last_updated: '2026-04-19T21:58:36.361903'
source: eve-university
source_stats:
  armorem: 50
  armorexp: 10
  armorhp: 60000
  armorkin: 35
  armortherm: 35
  bandwidth: 125 Mbit/sec
  bonuses: "'''Capital Industrial Ships bonuses (per skill level):'''<br>\n5% bonus\
    \ to Mining Foreman burst effect strength and duration<br>\n3% bonus to Shield\
    \ Command Burst effect strength and duration<br>\n5% reduction in fuel consumption\
    \ for Capital Industrial Core<br>\n10% bonus to Drone hitpoints and damage<br>\n\
    10% bonus to Drone ore mining yield<br>\n6% reduction in Drone ice harvesting\
    \ cycle time<br>\n'''Industrial Commandship bonuses (per skill level):'''<br>\n\
    5% bonus in Mining Foreman Burst range<br>\n'''Role Bonus:'''<br>\n400% bonus\
    \ to Capital Remote Shield Booster optimal range<br>\n90% reduction to effective\
    \ distance traveled for jump fatigue<br>\n\u2022&nbsp;Can fit Capital Industrial\
    \ Core<br>\n\u2022&nbsp;Can fit Clone Vat Bay<br>\n\u2022&nbsp;Can operate 'Excavator'\
    \ Drones<br>\n\u2022&nbsp;Can fit 3 Command Burst modules<br>\n\u2022&nbsp;Can\
    \ fit one Pulse Activated Nexus Invulnerability Core module<br>\n50% bonus to\
    \ command and mining foreman burst area of effect range<br>\n5x penalty to Entosis\
    \ Link cycle time<br>\n200% bonus to Cargo Scanners range<br>\n\u2022&nbsp;Can\
    \ connect to Mobile Phase Anchor deployables, providing 100 points of power"
  capacitor: 67,500 GJ
  cargohold: "40,000 m\xB3"
  class: Capital Industrial Ship
  cpu: 1200
  dronebay: "8,800 m\xB3"
  externallinks: ''
  extrahold: "300,000 m\xB3"
  extrahold2: "1,000,000 m\xB3"
  extrahold2type: Ship Maintenance Bay
  extrahold3: "40,000 m\xB3"
  extrahold3type: Fleet Hangar
  extrahold4: "10,000 m\xB3"
  extrahold4type: Fuel Bay
  extraholdtype: Mining Hold
  faction: Outer Ring Excavations
  grouping: Capital Industrial Ships
  highlights1: Can Use Command Bursts
  highlights2: "1,000,000m\xB3 Ship Maintenance Bay"
  highlights3: "40,000 m\xB3 Fleet Hangar"
  highlights4: Can Compress Ore
  highs: 8
  hulltype: Rorqual Class
  inertia: 0.07
  info: 'The Rorqual was conceived and designed by Outer Ring Excavations in response
    to a growing need for capital industry platforms with the ability to support and
    sustain large-scale mining operations in uninhabited areas of space.


    The Rorqual is notably capable of using a capital industrial core to substantially
    increase its industrial capabilities, while empowering its defenses during deployment
    in a static configuration. A key element of the industrial capacity unlocked by
    activating an industrial core is the ability to use compressor modules, with the
    Rorqual able to use the powerful and logistically impressive capital compressors.


    Additionally, the Rorqual is able to fit a capital tractor beam unit, capable
    of pulling in cargo containers from far greater distances and at far greater speeds
    than smaller beams can. It also possesses a sizeable drone bay, jump drive capability
    and the capacity to fit a clone vat bay. This combination of elements makes the
    Rorqual the ideal nexus to build deep space mining operations around.


    Due to its specialization towards industrial operations, its ship maintenance
    bay is able to accommodate only industrial ships, mining barges and their tech
    2 variants.'
  lows: 4
  mass: 800000000
  maxlockedtargets: 7
  maxvelocity: 60
  mediums: 7
  powergrid: 420000
  quote: What you started with a single rock can end with an empire of our own.
  quote_attribution: CEO Afait Assette
  reqskills: '* {{RequiredSkill|Capital Industrial Ships|I}}

    ** {{RequiredSkill|Advanced Spaceship Command|V}}

    *** {{RequiredSkill|Spaceship Command|V}}

    ** {{RequiredSkill|Industrial Command Ships|III}}

    *** {{RequiredSkill|Spaceship Command|V}}

    *** {{RequiredSkill|ORE Hauler|III}}

    **** {{RequiredSkill|Spaceship Command|III}}

    *** {{RequiredSkill|Mining Director|I}}

    **** {{RequiredSkill|Leadership|I}}

    **** {{RequiredSkill|Mining Foreman|V}}

    ***** {{RequiredSkill|Leadership|I}}

    ** {{RequiredSkill|Capital Ships|II}}

    *** {{RequiredSkill|Advanced Spaceship Command|V}}

    **** {{RequiredSkill|Spaceship Command|V}}

    ** {{RequiredSkill|Capital Industrial Reconfiguration|I}}

    *** {{RequiredSkill|Advanced Mass Production|IV}}

    **** {{RequiredSkill|Mass Production|V}}

    ***** {{RequiredSkill|Industry|III}}

    * {{RequiredSkill|Capital Ships|II}}

    ** {{RequiredSkill|Advanced Spaceship Command|V}}

    *** {{RequiredSkill|Spaceship Command|V}}

    * {{RequiredSkill|Jump Drive Operation|I}}

    ** {{RequiredSkill|Navigation|V}}

    ** {{RequiredSkill|Warp Drive Operation|V}}

    *** {{RequiredSkill|Navigation|I}}

    ** {{RequiredSkill|Science|V}}'
  scanres: 75 mm
  sensortype: Magnetometric
  sensorvalue: 115 points
  shieldem: 0
  shieldexp: 50
  shieldhp: 90000
  shieldkin: 40
  shieldtherm: 20
  shipid: 28352
  shipimg: Rorqual.jpg
  shipname: Rorqual
  sigradius: 11,500 m
  structurehp: 300000
  targetrange: 200 km
  totaltraintime: 88d 20h 56m 54s
  volume: 14500000
  warpspeed: 1.5 AU/s
  warptime: 77.63 s
source_url: https://wiki.eveuniversity.org/Rorqual
title: Rorqual
type_id: 28352
validation_score: 1.0
---

<img src="/28352.png" alt="Rorqual" width="300" style="float: left; margin-right: 25px; margin-bottom: 10px; width: 300px;" />

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## Summary

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Before the Citadel Expansion the Rorqual was mostly a toy for Mining Foreman Bursts and ore compression in the field. Nowadays (As of April 2018) it's a serious weapon for the industrial backbone of major nullsec alliances and also sees use as a PvP ship as well, using its high drone damage and capital tank to good effect.
## Skills
Further information about additional or recommended skills to pilot Rorqual for a specific or its common role(s) can be written here.
## Tactics
Avoid using the Rorqual for mining command bursts - command bursts give the pilot a weapons timer, which inhibits his ability to refit off his Mobile Depot.
## Notes
Rorquals are a group of whales of the family Balaenopteridae though the name is commonly used for fin whale or Balaenoptera physalus species.

• Rorquals cannot enter High Security Space.