Starfield The Datura – How to get The Datura ship

The Starfield The Datura ship is a secret ship that players can obtain through one of the Ryujin Industries faction quests. However, if you miss it the first time around, you won’t be able to get it until your next new game plus playthrough. That’s why we’ve got a guide to help you get it so you won’t have to worry about missing out on this ship.

Check out our Starfield tips and tricks for some handy advice. And if you’re in need of some gear upgrades, our Starfield best weapons and Starfield best armor guides will help you out. For now though, let’s take a look at The Datura ship in Starfield and how to unlock it.

How to unlock The Datura in Starfield

First things first, you can only find The Datura through the Top Secrets mission in the Ryujin Industries faction questline. Join the faction on Neon and progress the questline until you reach this quest, during which you meet Ularu Chen who, along with Imogene, will send you to meet with a man named Simon Ryzcek in Cydonia on Mars to obtain the Project Dominion files.

Talking to him, confirm your identity by selecting the ‘Razor derby is the only real sport’ option. He will offer you some information, but only if you’re either willing to pay 10000 Credits or complete a side job for him. You must select to hear about the side job. You’ll then receive a new objective telling you to head to The Datura in Saturn’s orbit in the Sol system.

Once in the orbit of Saturn, The Datura will send you a transmission. In order to board the ship, you need to choose the following dialogue options in this order:

1. Are you looking for a man named Simon Ryczek?
2. I’m here to save your life.
3. I can stop Simon Ryczek from hunting you.
4. Simon will stop if he believes you’re dead.
5. Simon wants your gun as proof of death.

After this, the NPC on The Datura, Malai Liskova, will invite you to dock with the ship to collect the Ember pistol as proof of her death. You can use the persuasion skill to take the gun from Malai to complete the quest, but to steal The Datura, you must attack and kill her. Once dead, simply sit down in the cockpit and pilot to a nearby planet to register the vessel at a Ship Services Technician, and bring the gun back to Simon to finish this Ryujin Industries mission.

Is The Datura worth getting?

As far as free ships go, The Datura is certainly no pushover, and is a fair bit better than the Frontier if you’re still using that. But saying that, you won’t be missing out on much if you choose not to steal it. It can hold four crew members, has 17 grav jump range and fairly average combat stats, making it a slight upgrade on your original ship, but it’s easy to find much better ships out there.

That’s all you need to know about how to get The Datura in Starfield. For more ship guides, check out our ship manufacturers, best ships, best ship parts, best reactors and starship weapons guides. If you’re after quests, our Sabotage, Delivering Devils, Surgical Strike, Operation Starseed, Absolute Power and Alternating Currents guides have you covered. And if you need crafting materials, we have guides on how to get adhesive, lubricant, adaptive frames, high tensile spidroin and microsecond regulators too.