[Jester's Trek] Bonus FOTW: Iteron Mark V
Bonus FOTW: Iteron Mark V
Oh, very well. Damn, you people are pushy.
For less paranoid applications, the Itty V should be fit as just a really big blockade runner using the same rules I laid down for those, minus the warp core stab...
[Iteron Mark V, Less Paranoid]
Expanded Cargohold II
Nanofiber Internal Structure II
Nanofiber Internal Structure II
Nanofiber Internal Structure II
Nanofiber Internal Structure II
10MN Afterburner II
Kinetic Deflection Field II
Adaptive Invulnerability Field II
Adaptive Invulnerability Field II
Medium Shield Extender II
Small Tractor Beam II
Salvager II
Medium Cargohold Optimization I
Medium Cargohold Optimization I
Medium Cargohold Optimization I
It holds about 13k of cargo with Gallente Industrial II, aligns in seven seconds, and tanks reasonably well against a casual gank. If you feel like you're going to be the subject of a gank (you're seeing a lot of Catalysts or Thrashers heading toward you), overheat the whole mid-rack, then activate them all and use the afterburner to try to get back to the closest stargate before you die.
As with BRs, do not fit Inertia Stabilizers! Align time rounds up. Unless you are willing to fit five Interia Stabilizers to reduce your align time to six seconds, don't bother fitting even one. But I pity you if you do that because it increases your sig to 320 meters. At that sig, you'll be taking nearly full damage from large weapons. Ouch.
Replace Nanofibers as needed with Expanded Cargoholds, keeping in mind that the first Nano you replace will increase your align time to eight seconds, and the third Nano you replace will increase it to nine seconds. But your cargo capacity will increase and increase beyond any other hauler.
But nah, you desperate people aren't asking about the high-sec fit, are you. You want the paranoid fit, right? OK, here it is.
[Iteron Mark V, More Paranoid]
Expanded Cargohold II
Expanded Cargohold II
Expanded Cargohold II
Reactor Control Unit II
Reactor Control Unit II
Experimental 10MN Microwarpdrive I
Adaptive Invulnerability Field II
Kinetic Deflection Amplifier II
EM Ward Amplifier II
Thermic Dissipation Amplifier II
Improved Cloaking Device II
[Empty High slot]
Medium Ancillary Current Router I
Medium Cargohold Optimization I
Medium Cargohold Optimization I
This takes some good skills to fit those RCU2s. But you can get the exact same effect using either more T1 Reactor Control Units, or you can fit a pair of Navy Micro Auxiliary Power Cores and a 2-3% grid implant. The critical thing you're trying to fit is that Microwarpdrive. And if you don't have Shield Upgrades V, you may have to remove some of the mid slots. Take them off from the bottom up (so remove the Thermic resists first) until you can fit everything, even if the "everything" you end up fitting is only the MWD and the cloak. Those are the important bits.
In this configuration you can carry 18k m3 with Gallente Industrial II or 20k with Gallente Industrial V (less if you need to use T1 RCUs). If you need to carry less cargo, remove the Expanded Cargoholds and replace them with Nanofiber Internal Structures to improve align time.
This is a ship that you will want to learn and practice the 10-second cloaked version of the insta-warp trick. Here's my guide on it, and here's the Eveopedia's guide on it. Practice it in high-sec until you've got it down to an art. On the rare occasions I've flown this ship, I've set auto-repeat on the MWD to OFF, I've moved the cloak to F1 and the MWD to F2 and I use hot-keys for everything. It takes some practice to build up the muscle memory to pull off an MWD-warp every time. Once you've mastered it, you can fly this boat straight through a low-sec gate-camp, no problem. Almost nobody will be on the ball enough to decloak you before you're away, and if you're at all concerned about it replace one EC with a Warp Core Stabilizer. Blockade runners are obviously superior, of course, but if this is all you have...
Happy hauling!
Source: Bonus FOTW: Iteron Mark V