AK-47 | Orbit Mk01 (Factory New)

The AK-47 | Orbit Mk01 in Factory New (FN) is the top wear of the red-and-black rifle from Operation Hydra. It is a Restricted skin that enters the game from the Operation Hydra Case. The float band runs from 0.00 to 0.07, which is 13% of a scale that ends at 0.55. The other four wears are cheaper by a factor of 2.7 to 3.4.

What the AK-47 | Orbit Mk01 looks like in Factory New

Dark and red zones divide the rifle between them. The receiver cover and the top of the handguard are graphite. The lower handguard and the side of the receiver are red, and the number 01 reads clearly there. The magazine is dark red, and a bright red stripe along its ribs gives it the look of being backlit. The grip is black; the stock is black with red.

Valve's description is short: a hand-painted design in red and black, with flavor text saying the weapon was found on COLONY01. Angular dark patches on the red run across the handguard, magazine and stock, and they are part of the artwork.

In Factory New the paint lies in an unbroken layer. The receiver edges, magazine ribs and buttplate are untouched, and the red stripe on the magazine burns evenly.

Where the AK-47 | Orbit Mk01 came from

Nozza, an author on the Steam Workshop, is behind the skin. The submission was titled "COLONY01 AK.r.V2" and appeared on April 17, 2017. All that is left of the working title in the game is the 01 on the receiver and a line in the description. In Valve's catalog the skin is number 656. The Operation Hydra Collection opened in the game on May 23, 2017, and the skin was in it from the first day. Valve presented the operation as a set of events: 2v2 and a mode about owning every weapon.

What to check before buying

Before taking an AK-47 | Orbit Mk01, look at these points:

• float: the closer to 0.00, the cleaner the red edges;


• the red stripe on the magazine ribs, which on a clean copy runs even along its whole length;


• stickers on the body of the AK-47 | Orbit Mk01, and a name tag if there is one.

Every copy carries the same pattern. The band here is a narrow 0.00 to 0.07, so one copy hardly differs from the next.

What the AK-47 | Orbit Mk01 costs in Factory New

No other wear of this skin costs as much. Minimal Wear and Well-Worn are cheaper by about 2.7 to 2.8 times, Field-Tested and Battle-Scarred by a little over 3.3 times.

Count the Restricted AK-47s priced in Factory New and there are nine; this skin is second from the top. Only AK-47 | First Class is higher, at almost three times the price. The nearest below, AK-47 | Rat Rod, is a tenth cheaper, and the next one down, AK-47 | Blue Laminate, is more than three times cheaper.

Getting the AK-47 | Orbit Mk01

The AK-47 | Orbit Mk01 drops from the Operation Hydra Case, the only case that carries this finish.

The skin also comes out of a contract fed with ten skins of the rank below. If they all come from this collection, which holds five Restricted skins, the output is one of five.

StatTrak and Souvenir

A StatTrak version of the AK-47 | Orbit Mk01 exists. Souvenir packages were not issued for this finish, because those covered only the tournament map collections. You can still assemble a souvenir copy yourself: the Souvenir-O-Matic applies gold tournament stickers and a player autograph to an ordinary skin from your inventory.

Stickers and craft on the AK-47 | Orbit Mk01

Red and graphite share the body equally, so red stickers merge into the handguard. White and light blue stickers read well on the dark receiver cover. Leave the red-lit magazine alone: a sticker there would cover the skin's brightest detail.

Who this wear suits

The AK-47 | Orbit Mk01 in Factory New makes sense if:

• you want an AK-47 for CS2 with the red stripe on the magazine untouched;


• you need a clean base for a craft in CS2, with no scuffing on the edges;


• the top of the quality range matters: the 0.00 to 0.07 band is the cleanest the skin gets.

If the red glow and the graphite matter more than untouched edges, the lower wears remain, at a price 2.7 to 3.4 times lower.