Lithosphere

The Lithosphere represents the Confederacy's conviction that mining is applied geology at industrial scale. Eight utility slots accommodate the most comprehensive geological analysis suite ever mounted on a mining vessel — real-time seismic modeling, spectral tomography, and core sample analysis that maps every ore deposit in an asteroid before the first laser fires. The result is extraction yields that approach theoretical maximums. One thousand six hundred eighty cargo capacity holds the results of operations that take longer but waste nothing. Solarian mining doctrine: the richest ore is the ore you don't leave behind.