Robilliverse

Patreon Donate if you can, via The Animal and the Machine

Admin Home Legal Notice Feedback via Mastodon

Calculator Calculator

Writers Universe Recommends Kilopower Scale Swear Words Writers Notes

Meta Time Line Glossary People Places Brands

Physics Purpose Velocity Power Nuclear HydrOx Periodic Table

Fi-Sics Purpose Time Bubble (IE) Portals Time Travel

HA Government HA HAA HABIT HAED HAFA HAFO HAHA HAI HAJaR HAM HAP HAS HATTER

HA Law Asimov Convention 2020 MEIA 2024 Constitution 2087 EVIL Weapons Act 2088 Settlement Act 2109

Business Canicott Tec HydrOx REC Regal Calculus Rip Jack (Manga)

Groups Anarchismit Demostratus EI Die Fune Kaisha HANA Iron Wall Life Paramount Miners Guild Red Blood Rock Breakers Union Vigilantly League

Weapons Astry Missile Shot Fighter Drone Fligs Fusion Drill Stun Guns Swords Turrets

Tech The Chair Double Diamond Domes Defensive Net Drones Entangled Network Filterfuge Fission Pile Flash Welding Impossibility Engine Maglights Merlin Engine Parallelascope Sensory Augmentation Sneppelins Space Elevator Suits Superamic Temporal Scanner Weapons Platforms

Bio Oxgae Space Cows

Ship Types HAAS Chinese Class HAAS European Class HAAS Indian Class HAAS LatAm Class HAAS NorAm Class HAAS Russian Class Thors Hammer Aetherial Racers Mining Ships Narrowboats Lifeboats / Pods

Ships & Hubs Cuidightheach REC HAAS Shakespeare HASS Svarga

EI EI Defined The Return Imperative Constitutional Watchdogs Big Sister Hana Jobber The Electoral Register Professor Smith The State Attorney Doc Diplomat J Laissez-Faire Sol Tzu Aunty Uncle Doxy Operator Ship Prime Homer

Solar System Sol Belter Aetherial

Systems First Landings Elysia 2128 Initium Novum 2128 Mount Diju 2129 Lavano 2130 Plymouth 2130 Vaythuriaam Pitha 2131 Dragons Breath 2132 Xupanu 2135 Spero 2136 Poanha 2138 Pyrite Mons 2140

Misc. nmtsb TTLS

3rd Party Ray Cats

Mining Ships

Engineering Specifications

  • þ: 1,600,000,000W
  • Mass: 10,000,000kg
  • Length: 75m
  • Max Acceleration: 17.9m/s/s
  • Propulsion: 1 Mini Merlin Engine
  • Special Feature: Flig flight control
  • Crew: 8 Miners (Typically)
  • Ship Design Focus: The ship was built to mine. It’s its sole focus.

Combat Specifications

Mining ships are entirely made for mining, and so are very industrial on the inside. Primarily they use their fusion drill to melt and smelt asteroids, producing purified products such as iron. They are built around the length of the mini Merlin Engine as a bolt on chassis. Without an extended length like an Astry ship, mining ships are quite bulky. The ships are designed to have a parent warehouse ship so it has fligs to fling its product away from the mining area. A good miner will throw out metal in a way to offset some of the push from the fusion drill. The 8 fligs are located on the outside of the ship so they can be double up as magnetic thrusters when surrounded by mental objects. Piloting them into a transporter is therefore a lot easier and saves on HydrOx thruster fuel.

Despite its initial inception to work with a warehouse ship, many mining ships are bought by prospectors and become homes. With the product stored on the outside, mining ships can become bulky and slow, and during the great Belter gold rush of 2103, many mining ships looked like giant golden nuggets glinting in the sunlight.

The mining ships also have lasers to help with cutting, which might be on ore or on product. All the lasers, fligs and fusion drills can be repurposed to turn the mining vessel into a small attack ship. With this utility in numbers, Belter clans can successfully prevent piracy. It is also not unheard of these mining ships being turned into pirate ships praying on defenceless yachts and cargo ships.