Siege Breaker

Fleet engineers spent three design cycles trying to build a better mining laser before realizing the extraction system wasn't the bottleneck — the targeting was. The Siege Breaker's dual lasers operate on a synchronized firing pattern that hits the same fracture point from two angles, pulling thirty-five percent more usable ore from each rock than sequential extraction. The cargo hold is smaller than competing designs because the engineering committee refused to sacrifice hull integrity for storage. Crimson mining doctrine: bring home less per trip, but bring home more per rock, and make sure the ship comes home at all.