Chaser

Chaser is available to purchase in the store.

The chaser is one of the first ships you get in the game, and remains useful until much later in the game. While it is a close combat ship, like the frigate, it also has much better Core HP, and many more Cpu available. It is roughly 2/3 as fast as the frigate, but has enough max energy and Cpu to allow for two Subsystems, and maybe a third if you don't mind waiting for your energy to recharge sometimes.