Rune

Build rating: 2,270
Effective health: 2,953
Max velocity: 305m/s
Turn rate: 29.8°/s
Signature: 3km
Cargo slots: 24

An interceptor (carry). Its grid has 28 cells: 4 battery, 2 subsystem and 4 propulsion hardpoints, and 18 core slots. Build rating 2,270 bare.

Fitting grid

Battery hardpoint (turrets and missile launchers)
Subsystem hardpoint (active modules such as ECM and repairers)
Propulsion hardpoint (drive modules)
Core slot (passive modules and conduits, any cell)

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Stats

Fitting

Build rating: 2,270
Battery hardpoints: 4
Subsystem hardpoints: 2
Propulsion hardpoints: 4
Core slots: 18
Cargo slots: 24
Safety hold slots: 4; Beta Patch 2: four cells on every ship, a fixed 2×2 square at the top left of the cargo grid.

Defense

Effective health: 2,953; The wiki's figure, worked out from its armor 1,838 (the community ship guide gives 1,638).
Armor: 1,638
Hull: 400
Kinetic resist: 24%; Beta Patch 2: the armor base value.
Explosive resist: 20%; Beta Patch 2: the armor base value. Modules and modifiers can't raise it above this.
Acid resist: 40%

Reactor

Max heat capacity: 450GJ
Heat dissipation: 4.5/s

Agility

Mass: 3.9t
Thrust: 140N
Acceleration: 85.9m/s²
Turn acceleration: 71.4°/s²
Turn rate: 29.8°/s
Max velocity: 305m/s

Targeting

Sensor range: 4km
Signature radius: 3km; The wiki listed a smaller figure in metres; see earlier values.

Sources: Community ship guide by sturmer.one (kekbur.net), Beta Patch 2; Citadel Wiki, fetched 3 Oct 2026, Beta 1 (wipe 1); Official patch notes, Beta Patch 2. Values with the double tick agree across sources. Quality scales armor, hull and heat capacity (Faction −15% per the wiki). Flawed is disputed: see the conflict.

Earlier values

Values we held before (7)

Safety hold slots: 2Citadel Wiki · Beta 1 (wipe 1) · Replaced in Beta Patch 2
Kinetic resist: 22%Citadel Wiki · Beta 1 (wipe 1) · Replaced in Beta Patch 2
Explosive resist: 22%Citadel Wiki · Beta 1 (wipe 1) · Replaced in Beta Patch 2
Armor: 1,838Citadel Wiki · Beta 1 (wipe 1) · Replaced by the community ship guide (sturmer.one, 4 Oct 2026)
Max velocity: 305.1 m/sCitadel Wiki · Beta 1 (wipe 1) · Replaced by the community ship guide (sturmer.one, 4 Oct 2026)
Sensor range: 4.01 kmCitadel Wiki · Beta 1 (wipe 1) · Replaced by the community ship guide (sturmer.one, 4 Oct 2026)
Signature radius: 1,250 mCitadel Wiki · Beta 1 (wipe 1) · Replaced by the community ship guide (sturmer.one, 4 Oct 2026)

Blueprint

Building cost

Materials to build a Rune, by blueprint rarity
Material	Normal	Advanced+10%	Prototype+20%	Artifact+50%
Veskar	99	109	119	149
Pirite	94	103	113	141
Helspar	91	100	109	137
Solstine	12	13	14	18
Dark Triton	32	35	38	48

Normal blueprint costs: Community ship guide by sturmer.one (kekbur.net), Beta Patch 2. Rarer blueprints need more of every material; their columns add that percentage to the Normal cost, rounded to the nearest unit (the game's own rounding isn't documented). Forge upgrades can offset some of the extra. Blueprint and earlier values.

Quartermaster: 800 Merits, 5 uses.

Builds

Sample

Rune marksman kiterBR 4,212

Artifact version

Not documented yet.

Developers name Tek Resonance as one of its artifact stats: see What does Tek Resonance do?.

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Comments 2 Sample

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Checked against the team-hosted wiki table: armor 1,838, max velocity 305.1 m/s, 18 core slots. Older screenshot readings floating around are wrong.
tamsin.vyre · 1 Oct 2026 · Beta 1 (wipe 1)
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Faction blueprint is 800 Merits for 5 uses at the Quartermaster. Pairs well with Marksman if you like staying alive.
nullsig · 2 Oct 2026 · Beta 1 (wipe 1)