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  hull_stats:
    hp_armor: 500
    hp_shield: 1000
    hp_structure: 1500
  name: Pioneer
  race: Unknown
  skill_requirements:
  - level: 1
    skill_id: 89241
  type_id: 89240
  velocity: 200
image: /89240.png
last_updated: '2026-04-19T17:44:50.349463'
source: eve-university
source_stats:
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  cpu: 320
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  extraholdtype: Mining
  faction: Outer Ring Excavations
  grouping: Standard Destroyers
  highlights1: ''
  highlights2: ''
  highlights3: ''
  highlights4: ''
  highs: 4
  hulltype: Pioneer Class
  inertia: 3.0
  info: 'Towards the end of YC127, new frontiers of opportunity opened up for the
    miners of New Eden. To help them rise to meet these opportunities, ORE''s design
    division began work on a reliable and effective ship that could outperform the
    Venture without the demands of other, more advanced, vessels.


    The result was the Pioneer, a ship designed to extend the reach of the nascent
    miner as they build towards ever greater success.'
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  lows: 2
  mass: 1600000
  maxlockedtargets: 6
  maxvelocity: 200
  mediums: 3
  powergrid: 50
  quote: Build for success, reach for adventure.
  quote_attribution: ORE marketing division
  reqskills: '* {{RequiredSkill|Mining Destroyer|I}}

    ** {{RequiredSkill|Mining|IV}}

    ** {{RequiredSkill|Industry|III}}

    ** {{RequiredSkill|Mining Frigate|III}}

    *** {{RequiredSkill|Spaceship Command|I}}'
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  sensortype: Magnetometric
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  shieldem: ''
  shieldexp: 50
  shieldhp: 1000
  shieldkin: 40
  shieldtherm: 20
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  shipimg: ''
  shipname: Pioneer
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  targetrange: 40
  tech: ''
  totaltraintime: 1145330
  turrets: 3
  variations: '{{Ship|Outrider}}, {{Ship|Pioneer Consortium Issue}}, {{Ship|Perseverance}}'
  volume: 55000
  warpspeed: 4.5
  warptime: 6.65
  wikireferences: ''
source_url: https://wiki.eveuniversity.org/Pioneer
title: Pioneer
type_id: 89240
validation_score: 1.0
---

<img src="/89240.png" alt="Pioneer" width="300" style="float: left; margin-right: 25px; margin-bottom: 10px; width: 300px;" />

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## Summary

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The Pioneer is an mining destroyer, serving as a bridge between the smaller Venture mining frigate and the larger Mining Barges. Like those ships, it receives bonuses for both mining and gas cloud harvesting. Like the Venture, the Pioneer is also usable by Alpha clones.

Compared to the Venture, the Pioneer offers a higher harvesting yield, with a third turret and stronger mining yield bonus. It can also carry a spare flight of drones that the Venture cannot. However, the Pioneer lacks the inherent warp core strength bonus of the Venture.
## Skills
A Pioneer can be used with starting skills on day one.

To improve mining yield
 Mining: Improves mining laser yield by 5% per skill level.
 Mining Destroyer: Improves mining yield by 10% per skill level (hull bonus).
 Mining Upgrades: Allows use of Mining Laser Upgrade low slot modules, boosting yield.
 Mining Drone Operation: Allows for use of mining drones to further boost yield (requires Omega clone status).
 Mining Precision: Improves mining laser critical success chance by 10% per skill level.
 Mining Exploitation: Improves mining laser critical success bonus by 5% per skill level (requires Omega clone status).

To improve survivability
 Evasive Maneuvering: Reduces align times.
 Spaceship Command: Reduces align times.
 Shield Management: Grants a 5% bonus to shield hit points per skill level.
 Shield Upgrades: Reduces shield upgrade powergrid needs by 5%, and allows for better shield extenders to be attached.

To improve self-defense against belt rats
 Drones IV: To be able to operate four drones, the amount that the Pioneer has bandwidth for.
 Light Drone Operation I: Allows use of light combat drones.

To harvest gas
 Gas Cloud Harvesting III: Allows for use of three gas cloud harvesters to maximize the harvest potential of the Pioneer.
## Tactics
Like other ORE mining ships, the Pioneer is not an ideal ship for combat, and any threat more dangerous than belt rats is best avoided rather than confronted. Paying good attention to D-Scan and/or local chat can bring notice to potential threats before they catch a Pioneer, particularly in riskier areas of space.

Orbiting an asteroid can help mitigate incoming damage from belt rats, but can also increase the time required to escape if a player threat nears.
## Notes
A Pioneer is the reward for completing the Fractured Legacy epic arc that was released with the Catalyst expansion. It is estimated to be completable in the length of a normal session.
## Patch History