Fyi , the VNI is king because it is able to fit a 100 MN afterburner , allowing it to speed tank the NPCs and still fit a repairer , and is able to use a full flight of any drones which is bullshit imo , said drones have excellent range 100 km with drone link augmentors and damage application at all ranges and on all targets . The former is really hard to achieve with turrets frigates orbiting you too close the speed of the 100 MN can ' t track , plus the frigate probably pointed you you ' re stuck here until downtime . The latter is hard to achieve with missiles all high dps missiles are bad at hitting frigates and even cruisers and have less effective dps than drones , or have a short range , or even a reload time that borks the dps . The drones have downsides too , like being destructible which is why they are balanced in pvp , but this is irrelevant in pve . As a bonus , drones attack automatically and do not need target locks , allowing the ship to afk . This is why drones are the king of pve , and the VNI has a ridiculous amount of bandwidth for a cruiser , not even speaking about a tech 1 cruiser which requires about 30 days of training to use properly . This thing has a firepower similar to the fking Dominix , which is 2 sizes bigger , for the same price after insurance . Tldr VNIs field a battleship sized flight of drones . No other cruiser can field a battleship weapon , and it happens to use the best pve weapon system .