We specialize in selling luxury and Original Concept (NOT CCU) ships for the true collector. We do this because some people like to be able to melt and rebuy their ships as many times as they like, which you can only do with an OC (NOT CCU) ship.

If you don't know what a CCU is, in a nutshell, it is an upgrade from one ship in SC to another using an upgrade certificate. You can buy a certificate on the SC website to upgrade one ship to another. This also has the side benefit of being able to save money by buying upgrades at a discount and applying a chain of multiple upgrades from a cheap ship (often with LTI) to an expensive one. Sounds great right?

The problem is that once you buy a ship upgraded via CCU, you can not resell it or even give it to anyone else. If you 'melt it' you would get the value of the original upgrades used to make it, but you will likely get less $ as credit than you paid for the ship and more importantly, you will only get the ability to 'rebuy' whatever cheap ship it was originally upgraded from, not the final ship that you melted. 

But with Original Concept (NOT CCU) ships, like many that we sell, you will be able to 'melt' the ship, get credit back for it, and then at any time buy it back from the melted ships section of the SC website for exactly the same amount that it credited you. You can do this any number of times, and if you do this at least once, you can then gift or resell the ship to someone else.

Both of these things can not be done with ships purchases that are a CCU chain. Our ships marked NOT CCU can be melted, repurchased, and even be resold. They are yours to do with as you like as many times over as you like!*

*CIG game rules may change in the future