Star Citizen ship: Drake Vulture, light salvage

The Vulture is a rough, rugged salvage machine: answer to no one, rip wrecks like a pro and carve out your own place in the great big empty.

📜 Its history

On 9 August 2895, the freighter “Empire Slipper” crashed into an irradiated asteroid field near a red giant, carrying precious metals and artworks. Found eight months later, the wreck was out of reach for conventional salvagers. Drake, then a young manufacturer, modified a Cutlass prototype, the VLT-3, with manipulator arms that avoided spacewalks, and recovered flight recorders and containers over thirty-six missions. The operation boosted its reputation, despite a row over copying the flight data. In 2932, a profitable salvage job by the Reclaimer “General Dogsbody” revived interest in the trade: the VLT-3 became the Vulture, officially launched in 2938.

📐 Specifications

🔫 Stock armament and equipment

Components:

• Shield: 3 × Bulwark (S1)
• Power plant: 2 × Fortitude (S1)
• Cooler: 2 × Thermax (S1)
• Quantum drive: Goliath (S1)
• Jump module: Explorer (S1)
• Radar: Surveyor-Lite (S1)
• Life support: ComfortAir (S1)
• Hydrogen tank: 2 × Internal Tank
• Quantum fuel tank: Internal Tank
• Utility item: 2 × Baler Salvage Head (S2)

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Sources: the official Roberts Space Industries Ship Matrix (specs, stock loadout and description, checked 19 October 2026), the Star Citizen Wiki for the ship’s history. Text rewritten by Beacon Mag. Official values may differ slightly from the current game, which is rebalanced every patch. Official images © Cloud Imperium Games. Star Citizen® is a registered trademark of Cloud Imperium Rights LLC.