While gathering materials on a planet on the Ross 775 system I stumbled on an automated mining operation. Has anyone seen this before? The defence skimmers scanned as Dangerous so could I have destroyed them? I overflew it in my DBX and got an Automated Defence warning so I buggered off quick. Strange really - or is it?
Automated mining
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Yes they appear randomly.
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Automated Mining Extractor
Automated Mining Extractors are found on planetary surfaces and can be destroyed by weapons fire. When destroyed, each extractor will release a single 1 ton mineral fragment that can be picked up with a cargo scoop. The mineral type of the fragment determines which 1 ton commodity cargo canister...
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Yes probably, unless it's an anarchy system.
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Yes, you'll see these not infrequently. I believe that the info shown for the installation or guarded area includes ownership/faction info. If you were to do something to skimmers, etc, that's who'd you'd likely end up getting a fine from. Even a logged trespass is just a fine, not a bounty.
Dangerous is a ranking. You could shoot/destroy them without much consequence if they're marked as wanted. You would actually get a small bounty reward, iirc. 1,000cr sounds familiar. In that case, I don't ever remember running into any trouble when destroying them.
The context for me doing that was mostly because I found occupied escape pods or other cartridges of goodies in their little area. You can pretty easily just swipe objects that you're interested in without even destroying the skimmers. They don't attack instantly when you breach the perimeter. They're also not very smart and will continue to patrol the (now) empty area if you relieve them of their stuff!
Dangerous is a ranking. You could shoot/destroy them without much consequence if they're marked as wanted. You would actually get a small bounty reward, iirc. 1,000cr sounds familiar. In that case, I don't ever remember running into any trouble when destroying them.
The context for me doing that was mostly because I found occupied escape pods or other cartridges of goodies in their little area. You can pretty easily just swipe objects that you're interested in without even destroying the skimmers. They don't attack instantly when you breach the perimeter. They're also not very smart and will continue to patrol the (now) empty area if you relieve them of their stuff!
