New mining technology and machinery

A 100k commercial shipyard is pretty easy to create. It’s the same cost and time as a 10k military shipyard. My commercial station designs are usually 125k to 140k tons (miner, harvester, terraformer, etc.) and all built in shipyards. For example:

The above mining design includes twenty-five mining modules, so you can already build a small, mobile orbital miner with cargo capacity that can be built from a brand new commercial shipyard with no capacity increase. I’m not sure why you would need to build smaller than that. The tiny cargo hold will hold up to twenty years of production from this ship.

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While inefficient a set and forget orbital mining fleet like sorium harvestors would be handy for clearing out systems with fewer resources. systems that arent worth the brain power or micro to set up the usual autominer,mass driver,hauler logistic chain.

If the system was ever to be attacked to you might stand a better chance pulling out a single mining fleet as opposed to the usual logistics chain of miners and co.

Edit: even just for the RP or completionist aspect.