Anubis

Lore & Background

In the shipyards that stock the Anubis, the marketing copy leans hard into the 'apex predator' angle. The design team clearly wanted a fighter that felt less like a dart and more like a wolf—compact enough to slip through a station's defense grid, but heavy enough to turn around and bite back with dual beam lasers and a missile rack that makes medium-ship pilots check their armor readouts nervously. The angular, faceted hull plates are not merely aesthetic; they channel heat and deflect incoming fire in ways that give the Anubis a survivability edge over its lighter siblings.

Among the pilot community, the Anubis has earned a reputation as the 'serious' large fighter. It is the ship you buy when you have saved up credits and you are done with the novelty of a small fighter's twitchy handling. It rewards a different skill set: heat management, armor rotation, and the patience to let a target close before unleashing a full broadside. Pilots who master its rhythm describe a feeling of being inside a fist that never quite lets go.

The ship also finds a niche in the less glamorous corners of the galaxy. With the right module configuration, an Anubis can double as a credible mining or exploration platform, its fighter frame carrying enough cargo and range to make a solo run to a distant asteroid belt viable. It is not the fastest way to get there, but it is the way that lets you defend yourself when something with teeth shows up at the extraction site.

In Their Own Story

The station was a dead-weight hulk, half its rings spinning lazily in the void, and the Anubis sat in the only working berth with its engines ticking over. Mara had been running this route for three cycles—jump in, scan the debris field, extract the isotopes, jump out. Clean. Boring. Paying.

Then the proximity alarm sang, and a pair of medium corvettes peeled out from behind the station's shadow, their running lights painted in the cold blue of a corporate security fleet. They wanted the isotopes. They wanted her to turn off her engines and open the hold.

Mara did neither. She kicked the throttle to full, feathered the yaw to bring the starboard beam laser into line, and felt the familiar weight of the Anubis's armor plates settle around her like a second skin. The first volley caught her port shield and the cockpit shuddered, but the hull held. She rolled, let the missiles arm, and fired a single, ugly, beautiful spread that bloomed against the lead corvette's engine housing.

The second corvette broke off. The first was already listing, venting atmosphere in a slow, iridescent ribbon.

Mara exhaled, dropped the guns to safe, and set a course for the next jump point. The Anubis hummed beneath her, patient and hungry, already calculating the next fight.

Reader's Guide

Large Fighter class. The Anubis sits at the top of the fighter tech tree, the natural graduation point for pilots who have outgrown small and medium fighters and want a single-seat warship with real staying power. It carries four weapon hardpoints, giving it a full broadside of beam lasers, pulse lasers, or missile launchers depending on your loadout, and its armor envelope is the thickest you will find in the fighter class. It fits the aggressive, close-to-mid-range combat role: get in, lock on, and let the heat build while you manage your shield rotation.

Compared to a small fighter, the Anubis is slower to accelerate but vastly more durable. You will not be dodging in tight spirals; you will be trading hits, managing your reactor output, and using your armor as a tactical resource. The four hardpoints mean you can mix and match—say, dual beam lasers on the forward arc for sustained DPS and a missile pair on the rear for a finisher or a desperate escape. In PvP, this flexibility is the Anubis's greatest strength: you can adapt your loadout to the meta without changing ships.

In PvE, the Anubis excels in solo medium-ship engagements where a small fighter would be glassed in two hits. It is also a credible, if not optimal, choice for solo mining and exploration runs, where its fighter frame keeps the ship light enough to be maneuverable while the armor keeps you alive when a pirate or a hostile fauna decides your extraction site is theirs. The playstyle shift is real: where a small fighter is a needle, the Anubis is a hammer, and you swing it with intent rather than speed.

Did You Know?

• The Anubis is the largest ship in the Fighter class, sitting above small and medium fighters in size, armor, and hardpoint count.
• Its four weapon hardpoints allow a full broadside configuration, meaning all guns can fire simultaneously in a single arc—a significant advantage in close-range duels.
• Despite being a combat-focused design, the Anubis is a popular solo mining and exploration choice among players who want a fighter that can defend itself against medium-ship threats.
• The Anubis's angular, faceted hull design is a deliberate aesthetic and functional choice, giving it a distinctly predatory silhouette that sets it apart from the rounder profiles of other large fighters.