DU5-7Y "Hegemon" Asteroid Miner

Mining Ship
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Ship Class	Transport
Built by	Civilian
Technical information
Guns/Turrets	0 / 10
Opt. weapon class	7
Max. weapon class	7
Other equipment	1xCD 1xCM
Hull strength	145,000
Max. shield class	7
Cargo space	2,750 units
Nanobots/Batteries	600/600
Max. impulse speed	80 m/s
Max. thrust speed	140 m/s
Max. cruise speed	350 m/s
Power output	70,000 u
Power recharge	6,000 u/s
Additional information
Ship price	$17,500,000
Package price	$22,364,750

The mining corporations and their holding companies built this class of ship to extract ore and other valuable mineral deposits from rock and ice.

Reviews

The Mining Ship has been built for one purpose : to mine. The priorities for a mining ship are

• Ability to mine
• Massive cargo hold - to maximise its autonomy
• Heavy armour - to maximise its territory of operation
• Defence infrastructure - to reduce the likelhood of being hijacked

All these requiements were admirably satisified in the ship design. The Miner has a tremendous armour rating of 145,000 which is far beyond any transport with comparable capactity can offer. The cargo bay is also very large, offering an excellent value. These properties make the Miner an attractive proposition for ferrying goods, with good reason. However, it's primary purpose is to mine -- that is to stand still, in a hostile environment, and be able to take whatever circumstances throw at it.

Potential buyers of the Miner should keep this in mind: it will do a mining job very well, but it has not been designed as a freighter or transport.

If you are considering the purchase of the Miner for goods transport, you need to know this:

• These ships were made for minining, and mining's what they do.
• The maneouvreability of this ship is terrible. The thick hull has a lot of inertia. Fast turns are impossible, evasive flight maneouvres are not an option.
• This ship is huge. (both on the inside and the outside). It's size requires very precise alignment when docking to trade lanes and gates. The auto-dock system struggles severely with the bulk of the ship, and manual intervention is frequently required to prevent locking up against trade rings and even jump gates.
• This ship is noisy. No effort was made to silence or even dampen the internal machinery. The hydraulic hiss of the pneumatics is always there, even when the mining mode is disengaged.

In some people's opinnion, the benefits outweigh the drawbacks and the miner is occasionally used as a transport ship. I am one of those people, so I can't recommend against using the Miner as a cargo ship. However, it comes with a strong sanity health warning.

Prolonged exposure to the noise level produced by the mechanical workings of the ship is very wearing. Take long breaks between assignments.

--Halogen 04:12, 9 September 2009 (MDT)

Weapons

• 10 Class 7 Turrets

Availability

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