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UBMC 'Pebble' Improvised Asteroid Miner (3-Slot)

Mining operations in remote systems have infrequent resupply opportunities, often being forcing engineers to make do with only what they have on hand. In high-radiation environments, rocky asteroids can be adapted to provide natural shielding, and they are sometimes hollowed out and given maneuvering drives to create makeshift vessels. Miners throughout the galaxy call these ships "pebbles," a term that is thought to originate with the Ulysses Belt Mining Conglomerate's "UBMC Pebble," These ships are slow, heavy, and unglamorous, but can be built on-site in a few days with only minimal equipment.

The "UBMC Pebble" itself is permanently housed at UBMC headquarters above Yumel Secundus. Historical records indicate that it was not the first ship of its kind, but it is one of the rare few improvised mining ships that have been preserved. The overwhelming majority of "pebbles" end up stripped and abandoned after their job is done, left adrift in the same asteroid fields from which they were assembled.

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This build was primarily an aesthetic-focused AI miner. It was designed before the mining update, so it has no cargo hold - it's still usable, but it's not a good choice for use with R-mining lasers.

Turrets are custom and marked as "required" items for convenience (they're not actually required, though).