The Fleet Register

The Donut Harvester carries little fuel and grinds a fixed dividend yield from RWA stocks. The Arbitrage Cruiser is quick, medium-capacity, and lives off cross-exchange price gaps. The Wall Street Dreadnought drinks fuel and earns it back by lifting every ship around it. Mixed fleets outperform monocultures in the simulation, largely because launch cost scales with tank size while the Dreadnought's fleet bonus does not.

Each plate carries the class code, the base fuel draw, the cycle it flies, the perk in the wording the model actually implements, and the sector the hull was shaped for. Nothing is rounded up in the hull’s favour: the Dreadnought prints its fuel bill at the same size as its aura.

The same three hulls with the marketing removed. Launches per month is the figure that decides most fleets: a Cruiser turns around in four hours and a Dreadnought in thirty, so a hull that earns three times as much per flight can still finish the month behind.

Fuel is not a flat price per launch. Each hull pays its base fuel draw multiplied by one plus the destination sector’s volatility times that hull’s surcharge coefficient. The coefficient is the whole mechanic: it is the number that converts a region’s temperament into extra $DONUT off your balance before the ship has left the rail. A quiet sector barely moves the figure. A wild one moves it a lot, and it moves it most for the hull with the steepest coefficient, which is why the same fleet can be cheap to fly into SPY Galaxy and expensive to fly into NVDA Sector on the same afternoon.

The Arbitrage Cruiser carries the highest coefficient on the board at 0.55 — more than twice the Harvester’s and the Dreadnought’s. That is deliberate, and it is not a penalty for being fast. The Cruiser is the only hull whose payout rises with volatility, so it is the hull that has a reason to fly into chaos, and the surcharge is what makes that choice cost something. Send it somewhere calm and it burns nearly nothing extra and earns nearly nothing extra. Send it into the loudest sector on the map and both sides of the ledger move together. Every one of these figures is model output at the stated reference conditions, not a price.

A captain sits above the hull and changes how the whole fleet behaves. The Bull reads the closing tape and pays out when the session ends green. The Bear contributes nothing to yield and everything to survival when it ends red. The Quant AI Pilot ignores the tape entirely, refuels on its own, and repeats expeditions for twelve hours while you sleep. Rarity decides who you can crew. The market decides who was right.

A captain is a bet on the state of the tape, not an upgrade you fit once and forget. The matrix below prints what each seat is worth in a green session, a flat one and a red one, including the seats that are worth nothing at all in that column. A neutral cell stays neutral here rather than being dressed up as a perk.

Two rare parts drop off completed expeditions. Engine Parts come off wreckage the fleet strips on the way home; Plasma Cannons come off whatever the pirates left behind, at roughly half the Engine Part rate. Both are salvage, and salvage pays better at night.

Every completed expedition rolls the table, inside the US session — 09:30 to 16:00 ET — as well as outside it. What changes after the bell is the rate: After-Hours Raids run against the same table multiplied by 3, so a session-only fleet assembles the same parts on the same recipe and takes about 3 times as many flights to do it. The faster route is not free. Raids carry a higher pirate failure rate and a floor under it, so the parts are paid for in ships that do not come back.

The parts craft one thing. 8 Engine Parts and 4 Plasma Cannons combine into a Launchpad Ticket, and a Wall Street Dreadnought is specified to carry a guaranteed ticket on a fixed cadence of its own flights without crafting anything. Under the planned long.xyz integration those tickets become front-of-line access to IDOs of tokenized stocks. That integration is intended, not built and not agreed, and the rates below are design assumptions rather than measured drop data.

You now have the hulls, the captains, the fuel curve and the salvage table. The simulator is where those four stop being separate numbers: assign the seats, set expeditions per month, and read the monthly $DONUT burned, the projected dividend fragments and the $LONG accrual for the exact fleet you just picked. Its output is a simulation of design assumptions still being balanced — never a forecast, and never a return being promised.