The Settled Systems of Starfield are rich, vibrant, and full of life and activities. From various unique side characters to different interesting factions, the game does its best to immerse you in all of its worlds. This immersive experience is undoubtedly why the Settled Systems have a rich history, and even the fantastic weapons and incredible starships have genuinely interesting origins.
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Each starship has a manufacturing company that produces several different ship parts that serve different functions and try to outperform their competitors in the market, so naturally, there are some that are better than others.
19 Deimos
Deimos specializes in a variety of ship parts, including cockpits, habs, structurals, and, most importantly, ballistic weapons.
Some of their best products include the DS40.2 Ares Bridge cockpit, the Deimos Living Quarters 3x1 hab, the 120LD landing bay, the 110DP docker, and the 320CB landing gear.
18 Taiyo Astroneering
Taiyo Astroneering specializes in cockpits, habs, and landing gear, and they have a decent lineup from each category for you to choose from.
They have an incredibly extensive list of habs that can cover any ship build or style you may have in mind. They have the impressive Himeji Command Bridge on their list of cockpits.
17 Dogstar
Dogstar mainly focuses on reactors, fuel tanks, and shield generators, and they offer some outstanding ones. Dogstar’s 104DS Mag Inertial Reactor is one of the best ship reactors available in the Settled Systems.
In terms of fuel tanks, they’ve got some excellent ones, most notably the H40 Atlas He3 Tank. And for their shield generators, their 104D Guardian Shield Generator is among the best shield generators in the settled systems.
16 HopeTech
HopeTech is known for its quality structurals, landing gears, and dockers, which are all essential passive ship parts that you must have of the highest quality to get an utterly noteworthy ship.
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HopeTech also produces other impressive ship parts, like their Commander 500 Bridge cockpit and their HopeTech All-In-One Berth 2x1 hab.
15 Horizon Defense
Horizon Defense offers your ships a variety of energy and ballistic weapons, which, as you know by now, are essential if you’re going to be traveling through the treacherous solar systems of Starfield.
Their Hunter Mag-450 Missile Launcher is among the best ballistic ship weapons in the game. You can never go wrong with a good energy weapon in Starfield. Horizon Defense offers plenty; most impressively, they have the Dragon 251P UV Pulse Laser.
14 Light Scythe
Like other manufacturers, Light Scythe offers a range of ship parts to choose from. However, they are a step ahead of most of their competitors in the quality of their energy weapons.
Light Scythe’s Atlatl line of ballistic ship weapons are some of the best in the game. You could also make a strong argument for their Exterminator 95MeV Auto Helion Beam and a few other great energy, ballistic, and missile weapons that they have on offer.
13 Nautilus
Nautilus mainly focuses on shields for your starships, but they have some solid options for you to choose from in the ship fuel tank department as well.
Among their incredible list of shield generators, Fortress A3 is one of the best shield generators in the game. They also have other solid options, like the Tower N420 and Bastille S84 shield generators.
12 Reladyne
Reladyne focuses on ship engines and grav drives, two crucial parts for your ship's maneuverability, travel and power output.
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Reladyne’s J-52 Gamma Drive is the best grav drive for your ships in Starfield. Regarding ship engines, their White Dearf 3030, Nova 1050, and Supernova 2200 are some of the most impressive ship engines available in the game.
11 Slayton Aerospace
Slayton Aerospace mainly focuses on ship engines and grav drives and is a direct competitor of Stroud Eklund. Interestingly enough, during one of the main quest missions on the beautiful Neon, you will butt heads with the man in charge of Slayton Aerospace, Nicklaus Slayton.
Slayton Aerospace is behind the SDG 2300 grav drive, one of the game's most impressive grav drives. Their ship engines are also very impressive, and they are responsible for the SAE 5220 ship engine, which is up there with some of the best ship engines in the Settled Systems.
10 Amunn Dunn
Amunn Dunn is among the most easily recognizable and trusted names in the Settled Systems regarding tested and trusted ship reactors.
They have so many top-tier reactors for you to choose from, depending on how you want to build your ship. Most notably, they have the Amunn Dunn-X 300 engine and the Theta Pinch D9 reactor. They also have a long list of ship engines for you to choose from.
