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I'm Sorry Dave
"The meek shall inherit the Earth, but not its mineral rights."
- Intent: An asteroid miner extraordinaire for the Open Market.
- Image Source: Terran Capital Ship by Tobias Frank
- Canon Link: N/A
- Permissions: N/A
- Primary Source: RM-103 Mining Drone
- Manufacturer: Corex Trading Company
- Affiliation: Open-Market
- Model: RM-501 Superminer
- Production: Mass-Produced
- Material: Duramentium-reinforced Durasteel Hull, Shutters, and Blast Doors; Transparisteel Viewports; Agrinium Radiation Shielding.
- Classification: Superminer
- Length: 2000 metres
- Width: 640 metres
- Height: 385 metres
- Armament: Very Low
- [12] Heavy Dual Turbolaser Turrets
- [4] Starfighter-grade Missile Batteries
- Defences: Very High
- Hangar Space: Extreme | 20
- Hangar Allocations:
- Starfighters: 3 Squadrons
- Support Craft: 17 squadrons
- Standard Loadout: 3 Squadrons of VH-101 Light Interceptors, 16 Squadrons of RM-103 Mining Drones, and 1 Squadron of Generic Civilian Shuttles. Does not have the facilities required to carry Support Craft in a combat capacity.
- Manoeuvrability Rating: Very Low
- Speed Rating: Low
- Hyperdrive Class: Slow | 5 (Primary) & 20 (Backup)
- The RM-501 is outfitted with all the features and facilities one would expect from a vessel of its size and purpose, among these:
- Standard Communications Suite - HoloNet & Subspace Transceiver
- Omnidirectional Tractor Beam Array
- Automated Refineries & Foundries
- Fully-Stocked Medbay
- Rocksniffer Mk. V Sensor Package: Specialised sensor package manufactured specifically for Corex; excellent at detecting even trace amounts of minerals through even the thickest of rock formations but suboptimal at best when used in combat or for scouting functions.
- RM-501s are outfitted with a pair of massive front-facing mining lasers for when the much, much smaller variants mounted on the ship's mining drone complement won't do the trick - while immensely powerful, their long spool-up time and general sluggishness make them completely unviable as weapons unless dealing with an incapacitated enemy - and at that point, you've already won.
- Locust Swarm: Normally holding no less than three hundred and twenty mining drones within its cavernous frame, the RM-501's ability to rip wealth from asteroid belts (or, for that matter, derelict starships) resembles a swarm of locusts descending on crops.
- Dependable: Robust beyond belief and crammed full of redundancies, the RM-501's ability to take a beating and keep mining is the stuff of legend - it might not be quick in any sense of the word, but by the Force will it get its cargo to port.
- Noncombatant: Despite its impressive hangar capacity, extensive refits would be required to field significant quantities of Starfighters and its sensors are not designed for combat scenarios; its glacially slow Hyperdrive only further lowers its already limited military potential.
- Graceless: The RM-501 is only slightly more manoeuvrable than a boulder rolling down a hill.
The largest and most important component of Corex's Rockmaw-series mining vessels, the RM-501 is a veritable juggernaut of exploitation, its cavernous halls housing swarms of mining drones and massive refineries alike, the open space at the centre of its forward structure designed specifically to dock with and transfer refined materials to various freighters, such as the cargo landers used by Arctrus' BFT-1.
Though intended for Corex's mining fleets first and foremost, the RM-501 is also sold on the private market, either through normal channels or as one-ship stocks corporations, typically with the number of shares fixed at a mere one thousand.
NB! By the standards of the Factory, the RM-501 is technically a Military Vessel.
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