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===Minmatar===
[[Chaotic Stupid|Tribal republic]] of dirt poor ex-slaves, fleet made out of rust and duct tape and armed with [[Shootas'an Dakkas|guns]].  Minmatar ships benefit from not needing to use capacitor power to shoot, allowing them to focus on engine boosting.  They also can apply all damage types by switching ammo.  Being fast and flexible, Minmatar ships are often the meta for their role, at least in the subcapital categories where costs are low enough that survivability isn't a serious consideration.  Their capital ships however are garbage and nobody pretends otherwise even ironically; they just don't have the toughness to slog it out.  

While the Minmatar have many ships of note, none are more iconic than the tiny, unassuming Rifter.  More rifters have been flown and lost in EVE than any other class of ship.  Small, fast, and cheap, they are built in the thousands and thrown onto the field to pin down other bigger ships and keep them from escaping.  Fly a rifter, die gloriously, and then grab another rifter.