# Elite Dangerous Elite Dangerous: Caspian Explorer | Update 1

- Product: Elite Dangerous (https://whatsnew.fyi/product/elite-dangerous)
- Vendor: Frontier Developments
- Date: 2025-12-11
- Original notes: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/359320/view/613182487250599966
- Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/elite-dangerous/releases/2025-12-11-elite-dangerous-caspian-explorer-update-1

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- **added** — Cap for engineering resistances to avoid values above 75% being achieved
- **changed** — Station weapons now deal plasma damage, improving effectiveness against target resistances
- **added** — Enabled Mk II Ablative Mirrored Surface Composite armour at markets for the Caspian Explorer
- **fixed** — Resolved a crash occasionally occurring when more than 9 ships were stored in the Squadron Bank
- **fixed** — Replaced low res images of the Caspian Explorer in Galnet

Greetings Commanders,

The Caspian Explorer Update 1 is now available. This update enables the Mk II Ablative Mirrored Surface Composite and introduces a cap for engineering resistance, alongside other changes.

**Features of Note:**

- Added a cap for engineering resistances to avoid values above 75% being achieved.

- Station weapons now deal plasma damage, improving effectiveness against target resistances.

- Enabled "Mk II Ablative Mirrored Surface Composite" armour at markets for the Caspian Explorer.

**Bug Fixes**

- Resolved a crash occasionally occurring when more than 9 ships were stored in the Squadron Bank

- Replaced low res images of the Caspian Explorer in Galnet.