This is a desperate attempt to explain how I see the future of mining in ED.
Please bear with me, fat fingers and a not so smart phone can mess up the wording.
Scenario:
The sound boom from the ship entry into the atmosphere could be heard from miles away. CMDR X looked at his HUD a checked the temperature, yeah only 115% heat, no worries this time. The resource drone was close by and still transmitting it's coordinates to the ship.
20% gold
5% titanium
12% platinum
Well, it's always a start. The signal was located in the crater of an old Vulcan. Scanning for life forms, nothing, CMDR X decent into the crater and landed at the bottom. The heavy ramp slammed the ground with loud noise that could wake the whole neighbourhood, who cares it's dead here anyway. Out goes the mining excavator, drive it to the drone and connect it with the resource extractor.
He hits the power up button, power low, WHAT? Damnit I'm sure I recharged it on my way here.
Later after recharging the equipment, it fires up and start to extract the mineral from the site.
CMDR X fire the last drone, "I really hope it hit the jack pot this time" he mumble, check the equipment a last time before he takes off away from the site. Incoming message, the computer voice breaks the day dreaming, he check the message. Wow that was too good to be true, he heads towards the signal.
What is that, the life form scan is going crazy, he check the drone, no signal? Nothing to see down there, he scans again, nothing no life form signal nada.
The drone are visible, the ship hover above it. He try to find a place to land and set it down.
As he leaves the ship, a strangers sound cut though the landscape, he reach out for his weapon a tiny pistol, after all his a miner and not a soldier.
To be continued
Now, this is all something that could be done, the big question is will it ever be?
Let me hear your points of view, am I crazy and live in the clouds or could we do this one day.
Please bear with me, fat fingers and a not so smart phone can mess up the wording.
Scenario:
The sound boom from the ship entry into the atmosphere could be heard from miles away. CMDR X looked at his HUD a checked the temperature, yeah only 115% heat, no worries this time. The resource drone was close by and still transmitting it's coordinates to the ship.
20% gold
5% titanium
12% platinum
Well, it's always a start. The signal was located in the crater of an old Vulcan. Scanning for life forms, nothing, CMDR X decent into the crater and landed at the bottom. The heavy ramp slammed the ground with loud noise that could wake the whole neighbourhood, who cares it's dead here anyway. Out goes the mining excavator, drive it to the drone and connect it with the resource extractor.
He hits the power up button, power low, WHAT? Damnit I'm sure I recharged it on my way here.
Later after recharging the equipment, it fires up and start to extract the mineral from the site.
CMDR X fire the last drone, "I really hope it hit the jack pot this time" he mumble, check the equipment a last time before he takes off away from the site. Incoming message, the computer voice breaks the day dreaming, he check the message. Wow that was too good to be true, he heads towards the signal.
What is that, the life form scan is going crazy, he check the drone, no signal? Nothing to see down there, he scans again, nothing no life form signal nada.
The drone are visible, the ship hover above it. He try to find a place to land and set it down.
As he leaves the ship, a strangers sound cut though the landscape, he reach out for his weapon a tiny pistol, after all his a miner and not a soldier.
To be continued
Now, this is all something that could be done, the big question is will it ever be?
Let me hear your points of view, am I crazy and live in the clouds or could we do this one day.