Daily Driver By Chad Tomlinson on 03-Sept-2025 in gaming

Unwilling to contribute more funds to CIG, unless purchased with aUEC earnt in game, I only have access to loaner vessels, a MISC Hull C, Crusader C2 Hercules and a Banu Defender, none of which could be considered a daily driver.

In Star Citizen, a daily driver is simply a vessel used frequently for tasks and missions across the ‘verse. Typically a medium or large vessel, with a good balance of flight characteristics, combat capability and cargo capacity. It’s the go-to vessel that balances versatility, reliability, and personal preference.

MISC Hull C

The MISC Hull C without any interior cargo capacity, unable to land when its spindles are deployed, is a one trick pony.

Large, slow and cumbersome the badly armed, vessel is impractical for everything apart from transporting bulk cargo from one space station to another. The MISC vessel is hardly daily driver material.

Banu Defender

Although well armed, considering it’s fragile nature, the Defender is aptly classified as a light fighter, and is unsuitable for extended combat. Lacking a cargo grid, the Banu Defender is incapable of anything more than box delivery missions, so impractical for hauling cargo.

Transporting goods, materials and vehicles in Star Citizen encompasses a large swathe of gameplay, so prevents the ship from being a daily driver.

Crusader C2 Hercules

Although a capable ship, the Crusader C2 Hercules is a hamstrung replacement for the Merchantman, lacking in every metric.

Able to haul an impressive amount of cargo or transport a variety of vehicles, the C2 is an excellent vessel, but it does have a couple of issues.

The less significant issue with the C2 is its size, the large hull causes is understandably slow and combersome, and can often limit where the vessel can go.

The major issue is the inflexible stance when landed when combined with the boarding ramps. The front an rear landing gear is too close, so even small terrain imperfections can cause either one or both boarding ramps to stand proud of the ground, or hoist the vessel of it’s landing gear making it unstable. Often it’s impossible to get vehicles on and off the C2, limiting what gameplay the ship can actually entertain.

Daily driver

Essentially a compact Crusader C2 Hercules, the Crusader C1 Spirit exchanges a smaller cargo grid for affordability, speed, handling and ergonomics.

The versatile cargo grid is large enough for either several small hauling missions or a medium hauling mission, whilst carrying Atlas power suits, or small vehicles for additional gameplay opportunities.

Although a little fragile, the medium freighter is able to hold it’s own in PVE combat. Swapping out the four M5A Cannon’s for CF-337 Panther Repeater’s and pumping unassigned power into weapons, shields and engines transforms the ship into a medium fighter easily able to handle starter missions.

Available for 3,118,500 aUEC from the Crusader Industries Showroom the C1 Spirit is an frugal purchase, only the Drake Cutlass Black offers comparible value, but the compact hull isn’t as spacious, and lacks crew facilities.