Ships/Hammerhead

Hammerhead

Your initial ship, and definitely the weakest available to you. The Hammerhead really can't handle much in terms of combat without significant equipment upgrades, so try to avoid combat to begin with and gain money through trading or mining instead. You want to get into at least a Mastadon as quickly as possible.

Although there are only 2 turrets, they are decently placed and it is easy to position yourself to bear both turrets on the same target. The Alpha turret is located top center and has next to no obstructions and can shoot a full 360 as long as fighters don't dive below it's horizon of fire. It may lose tracking on a low flying fighter directly in front of you as the nose of your ship blocks its line of fire but that shouldn't be much of a problem. The Beta turret is located under the nose of the ship. Due to the zig-zag profile of the ship, this turret can't shoot directly behind you because the body of the ship itself blocks this area. This turret still has decent coverage even with this blind spot.