Andrew Boulton
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Other than the Seeker, are there any?
Mining ships
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far-trader
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Official Canony ones? I do seem to recall a big mining/processing platform somewhere but it's a very vague impression.
If non-canonical is OK, I commend your interest to Issue 013, January 2011, of Freelance Traveller, wherein you will find the Vagrant-class X-Boat Service Hull, which has a mining variant.
Andrew Boulton
The Adminator
Canony is bettery 
Seeker..(canon)
Platform..(canon)
Free Trader/Far Trader conversions ..(semi-canon)
Other ships converted for mining ..
None built from the ground up with the prospector in mind that I can think of ..will dig thru stuff tonight and see ...
Vile
SOC-12
You're probably thinking of the tug. The picture showed it hauling asteroids (or big lumps of rock, anyway) in its "jump net".
Yes. FASA High Passage No. 4
Arzhent Class Prospector/Surveyor
CT Stats:
180t
Jump-2, Maneuver-2
Pulse laser
Crew of 1 (also listed as 8 in 4 staterooms)
60 dtons cargo
MCr 61.75
Cool little ship. The deckplan shows a GMV-10 General Purpose Grav Mining Vehicle that wont fit out the doors
Hope this helps.
-Swiftbrook
There was a 100T "Khazad-Class Seeker Starship" complete with deck plans in "White Dwarf" #23. I remember it clearly, but wouldn't you know that it's one of the issues that has gone missing from my collection. >>Sigh!<<
(Incidentally, the text implied that it was a modification of another design, but I've never seen the original and suspect that it didn't actually exist (in published form, that is). I could be wrong.)
It was by Roger E. Moore.
Hans
(Incidentally, the text implied that it was a modification of another design, but I've never seen the original and suspect that it didn't actually exist (in published form, that is). I could be wrong.)
It was by Roger E. Moore.
Hans
Andrew Boulton
The Adminator
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Well remembered, but none of these are the one I'm after. I suspect it's an original design.
Well remembered, but none of these are the one I'm after. I suspect it's an original design.
Black Vulmea
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Darkling Ship also gives us a grav scooter, essentially a grav bike for those who work in space.
IMTU, many rockhoppers - independent prospectors/miners - use small craft. LKW's 30-ton Ship's Boat book includes an "ore carrier" variant; couple this with a second-hand mining drone from White Dwarf 37 for a mining (pulse) laser and you have lower purchase and operating costs than a type J. ComStar Avenger's Golden Age Starships 5: Cutters and Shuttles gives us a "mining shuttle" as well as a cargo module capable of carrying ore for the modular cutter.
In my solo Beltstrike campaign, my intrepid belting couple used workboats to carry the ore they mined to the starport, then chartered a merchant ship to carry it to market. For subsequent trips to their asteroid mine, they purchased 300 dton shipping containers as described in Games Workshop's IISS Ship Files and filled those with ore instead; 50 dton "orbital tugs," as described in FASA's High Passage 4, were used to move the containers to and from the belt starport, whereupon chartered 300 dton "freight tractor vessels," also from IISS Ship Files, transported the containers to market. This proved less expensive than chartering workboats and freighters as they did the first time around.
The Judges Guild adventure Darkling Ship includes the "asteroid workboat," a 150 dton TL 9 non-starship - basically it's a barge for carrying up to 100 dtons of ore or supplies and gear. The adventure includes a deck plan for the workboat along with its High Guard stats. They're common IMTU, mostly operated by mining operations for hauling ore to the starport.
Darkling Ship also gives us a grav scooter, essentially a grav bike for those who work in space.
IMTU, many rockhoppers - independent prospectors/miners - use small craft. LKW's 30-ton Ship's Boat book includes an "ore carrier" variant; couple this with a second-hand mining drone from White Dwarf 37 for a mining (pulse) laser and you have lower purchase and operating costs than a type J. ComStar Avenger's Golden Age Starships 5: Cutters and Shuttles gives us a "mining shuttle" as well as a cargo module capable of carrying ore for the modular cutter.
In my solo Beltstrike campaign, my intrepid belting couple used workboats to carry the ore they mined to the starport, then chartered a merchant ship to carry it to market. For subsequent trips to their asteroid mine, they purchased 300 dton shipping containers as described in Games Workshop's IISS Ship Files and filled those with ore instead; 50 dton "orbital tugs," as described in FASA's High Passage 4, were used to move the containers to and from the belt starport, whereupon chartered 300 dton "freight tractor vessels," also from IISS Ship Files, transported the containers to market. This proved less expensive than chartering workboats and freighters as they did the first time around.
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Beltstrike module has a mining platform. Canonical.
