Corona Class Orbital Miner

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Corona Class Orbital Miner
Corona Class Orbital Miner Prerequisites Tech Level 4 Cost 2,000 MC Duranium 150 Tritanium 100 Molybdenum 250	Personnel Crew Size 800 Guests 20 Cargo Max. Cargo 10,000 Max. Fuel 2,000 Max. Ord 8,000 Max. Repair 5,000 Cargo (Extended) Pod Bays 2 Fighter Bays - Tractor Beam 3,000	Ship Parts Large Weapons 4 (800kt) Small Weapons 5 Super Weapon - Point Defense 8 Generators 4 Armor Limit 200 Shield Limit 350	Warp Movement Engines 8 (110LY) Warp Drag Factor 925 Hyperjump Class - Range - Scanning Scan Range 300 Warp Signature 150 Cloak (Fuel) - Dry Dock Size -	Space Combat Attack Bonus 40 Evasive Bonus 0 Power Bank 5,000 Damage Modifiers Hull Mass 500 Parts 80 Control System 100 Engines 160 Hyper Drive 100 Life Support 40 Soft Spot 2

[edit] Overview

[edit] Primary Purpose

Travels from planet to planet (preferably towed by a Prominence Class Cruiser as the Corona is a fuel hog), draining all resources and Ground Chunnels them back to ship yards. This ship is the only method to extract minerals from the planet core. Lays minefields blocking off travel lanes and protecting worlds. Also seeks out the hottest stars for the home base to Chunnel to.

[edit] Secondary Purpose

A stationary Corona, over a non-farming world, often forms a transfer point for all nearby farming worlds to ship their surplus food to for transfer to the home base. Such transfer points are minor bases with no structures, as it must be rebuilt after each Chunnel.

[edit] Special

• It is subject to the special rules applying to ships of the Solorian Unity.

[edit] Ship Devices

• Gravitonic Mine Dropper
• Barbitic Mine Dropper
• Mine Sweeper Array
• Laser Mining Drill
  • Mines 10,000 metal per turn.
• Scalar Wave Damper
  • HD Stress cannot be reduced below 0.
  • HD Stress only reduced by 5 to 30 points.
  • Delta stress is NOT actually reduced, though the amount of HD Stress created by it is reduced by 4.
• Ground Base Chunneler
• Stellar Targeter

[edit] Starheat Coefficient

• 5.556 (Multiply by starheat for new fuel)
• NOTE: Starheat 45 generates 250 fuel and takes 8 turns to fill tank. Make use of the Solar Collection Array to refuel.

[edit] Special

• The Laser Mining Drill mines 10,000 mineral rather than 1,000.
• The Scalar Wave Damper has only half the normal effect and cannot reduce delta stress below 0.
• It is subject to the special rules applying to ships of the Solorian Unity.

[edit] Useful Configurations

[edit] Dirt Cheap

Large Weapons	Small Weapons	Point Defense	Engines	Hyper Drive	Generators	Shield	Armor
3 Merculite R. 1 Sand Caster	5 Pulsed Laser	8 35mm Vulcan	8 FTL-1	-	-	Corber 350	-

Mostly stays in orbit as a transfer point.

[edit] Explorer

Large Weapons	Small Weapons	Point Defense	Engines	Hyper Drive	Generators	Shield	Armor
3 Anti-Matter Gun 1 Sand Caster	5 Positron	8 Turbo Laser	8 FTL-4	-	-	Corber 350	400

Can be a threat to outlying enemy bases, especially with a Prominence Class Cruiser escort.

[edit] Fully Outfitted

Large Weapons	Small Weapons	Point Defense	Engines	Hyper Drive	Generators	Shield	Armor
3 Ionic Gun Array 1 Sand Caster	5 Plasma Gun	2 MML 6 Turbo Laser	8 Transwarp Drive	-	-	Corber 350	400

Buy the Large Weapon Overcharger and/or the Small Weapon Overcharger Exotic Tech to rapidly strip shields and allow the Ionic Guns to do their thing.

[edit] See also

• [1] Official Ship Stats