--- esi_data: fitting_stats: cpu_output: 725 high_slots: 5 low_slots: 6 med_slots: 5 powergrid_output: 700000 rig_slots: 3 group: Carrier hull_stats: hp_armor: 69500 hp_shield: 55500 hp_structure: 83500 name: Thanatos race: Unknown skill_requirements: - level: 1 skill_id: 20533 - level: 1 skill_id: 24313 type_id: 23911 velocity: 80 faction: Gallente Federation faction_group: Empire image: /23911.png last_updated: '2026-04-20T03:46:37.680371' ship_class: Carrier source: eve-university source_stats: armorem: 50 armorexp: 10 armorhp: 69500 armorkin: 35 armortherm: 35 bonuses: "Gallente Carrier bonuses (per skill level):
\n5% bonus to Fighter\ \ damage
\n2.5% bonus to Fighter hitpoints
\n5% bonus to Siren Support Fighter\ \ warp disruption range
\n2% bonus to Siren Support Fighter warp afterburner\ \ speed bonus
\n1% bonus to Armored Command and Skirmish Command burst strength\ \ and duration
\n'''Role Bonus:'''
\n\u2022 Can fit Networked Sensor\ \ Array
\n\u2022 Can fit Capital Micro Jump Drive and Capital Micro Jump\ \ Field Generator
\n\u2022 Can use two Command Burst modules
\n200%\ \ bonus to Command Burst area of effect range
\n\u2022 Can launch Light\ \ and Support Fighters
\n\u2022 Can lock at extended ranges
\n\u2022\  Conduit Jump Capable
\n5x penalty to Entosis Link duration" capacitor: 55,000 GJ cargohold: "2800 m\xB3" class: Carrier cpu: 725 externallinks: '' extrahold: "3,000 m\xB3" extrahold2: "2,000,000 m\xB3" extrahold2type: Ship Maintenance Bay extrahold3: "10,000 m\xB3" extrahold3type: Fleet Hangar extraholdtype: Fuel faction: Gallente Federation fighterbay: "75,000 m\xB3" fightertubes: 4 grouping: Carriers highlights1: "10,000 m\xB3 Fleet Hangar" highlights2: "2,000,000 m\xB3 Ship Maintenance Bay" highlights3: '' highlights4: '' highs: 5 hulltype: Thanatos Class inertia: 0.039 info: 'Sensing the need for a more moderately-priced version of the Nyx, Federation Navy authorities commissioned the design of the Thanatos. Designed to act primarily as a fighter carrier for small- to mid-scale engagements, its significant defensive capabilities and specially-fitted fighter bays make it ideal for its intended purpose. The Thanatos is capable of generating a Jump Conduit Portal which allows it to instantaneously transport itself and nearby fleet members to a target cynosural beacon. Ship classes that can be moved via conduit: Frigates, Destroyers, Cruisers, Battlecruisers, and Battleships.' launchers: 0 lightfightersquadlimit: 3 lows: 6 mass: 1220000000 maxlockedtargets: 14 maxvelocity: 80 mediums: 5 powergrid: 700000 quote: The best pilots deserve the best support. quote_attribution: CreoDron marketing division reqskills: '* {{RequiredSkill|Capital Ships|I}} ** {{RequiredSkill|Advanced Spaceship Command|V}} *** {{RequiredSkill|Spaceship Command|V}} * {{RequiredSkill|Gallente Carrier|I}} ** {{RequiredSkill|Capital Ships|IV}} *** {{RequiredSkill|Advanced Spaceship Command|V}} **** {{RequiredSkill|Spaceship Command|V}} ** {{RequiredSkill|Gallente Battleship|III}} *** {{RequiredSkill|Spaceship Command|IV}} *** {{RequiredSkill|Gallente Battlecruiser|III}} **** {{RequiredSkill|Spaceship Command|III}} **** {{RequiredSkill|Gallente Cruiser|III}} ***** {{RequiredSkill|Spaceship Command|II}} ***** {{RequiredSkill|Gallente Destroyer|III}} ****** {{RequiredSkill|Gallente Frigate|III}} ******* {{RequiredSkill|Spaceship Command|I}} ** {{RequiredSkill|Drone Interfacing|V}} *** {{RequiredSkill|Drones|V}} ** {{RequiredSkill|Jump Fuel Conservation|IV}} *** {{RequiredSkill|Jump Drive Operation|III}} **** {{RequiredSkill|Navigation|V}} **** {{RequiredSkill|Warp Drive Operation|V}} ***** {{RequiredSkill|Navigation|I}} **** {{RequiredSkill|Science|V}} ** {{RequiredSkill|Jump Drive Calibration|III}} *** {{RequiredSkill|Jump Drive Operation|V}} **** {{RequiredSkill|Navigation|V}} **** {{RequiredSkill|Warp Drive Operation|V}} ***** {{RequiredSkill|Navigation|I}} **** {{RequiredSkill|Science|V}}' scanres: 65 mm sensortype: Magnetometric sensorvalue: 76 points shieldem: 0 shieldexp: 50 shieldhp: 55500 shieldkin: 40 shieldtherm: 20 shipid: 23911 shipimg: Thanatos.jpg shipname: Thanatos sigradius: 9,960 m structurehp: 83500 supportfightersquadlimit: 2 targetrange: 300 km tech: '' totaltraintime: 147d 13h 43m 40s turrets: 0 variations: '' volume: 13095000 warpspeed: 1.5 AU/s warptime: 65.960 s wikireferences: '' source_url: https://wiki.eveuniversity.org/Thanatos tech_level: Tech 1 title: Thanatos type_id: 23911 validation_score: 1.0 --- Thanatos
## Summary
The Thanatos is the Gallente carrier. Like the other carriers, the Thanatos was rebalanced in the April 2016 update to become a mobile long-range damage dealer with squadrons of launched fighters. Its 6 low slots allow the Thanatos to field a respectable armor tank, though not on par with the Archon. The Thanatos is popular in PvE due to its high fighter damage bonus, allowing players to quickly complete missions and combat anomalies. In PvP, the Thanatos reigns supreme as the standard armor carrier, as its larger fighter bay and more damaging, highly survivable fighters allot it the high damage expected from carriers.
## Skills
Further information about additional or recommended skills to pilot Thanatos for a specific or its common role(s) can be written here.
## Tactics
The Thanatos is often used for ratting NPCs in lowsec and nullsec space. For that reason, fleets that are large enough will often try an hunt a Thanatos if seen on D-scan. For that reason, the Thanatos is sometimes used as bait to lure in a fleet so that a larger or more capable fleet can then cyno in and destroy the fleet that has been successfully baited.
## Notes
In ancient Greek mythology, Thanatos was a personification of death; the word itself (Θάνατος) was also simply the ancient Greek word for death in general. Some writers grouped Thanatos with other personifications of negative experiences and emotions as siblings, treating him as a brother of (among others) Eris, Moros, Nemesis and Charon; in some accounts, Thanatos was distinguished, as peaceful death, from the Keres, associated with violent death. ## Patch History