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Mobile Drilling Platform - Gaius mk II

A highly-improved version of an earlier rig designed by ST Enterprises. Plant you feet, swing the drill arm into place, and bore a gigantic hole in the planet. Just be careful. Gaius mk II can become unstable and rip itself apart if you try to move while drilling, or attempt to move the arm too quickly.
--A massive drilling arm with the full power of four large drill bits at the tip. It all pipes to a conveyor and large cargo container.
--Six wheel drive, four wheel steering, and a stiff suspension capable of 75% vertical travel. Gaius will rock and roll over nearly any terrain.
--The catwalk at the rear allows easy loading and unloading for engineers, without having to consume hydrogen.
--Cab seats four engineers, including the operator.
--Carries a three-tank o2 storage system, piped to pressurize the cab with stock OR air drawn in from outside. A must-have feature for use on Alien-type worlds!
--Extendable landing gear allows you to bite into the ground behind Gaius, and prevent the drill from moving you around.
--Gyroscope-based stabilization system minimizes drill shake. A camera and spotlight are also available to help the operator spot ores when drilling.
--Rotating amber lights above the cab allows nearby engineers to spot Gaius at a distance and steer clear while the drill is in action. Safety first!
--Equipped with medical supplies in the event an engineer gets hurt on the job.
--Built-in ore detection eliminates the need for additional craft on-site, AND cuts down on "running in circles with a drill in hand" time. Those suits just don't have enough range!
--Battery powered, with a charging port at the rear. Charging port will also allow you to unload Gaius mk II with a few simple keystrokes.

NOTE: Due to an unforseen flaw in the design of the drilling arm, copy-pasting this ship into a world will cause the pistons in the arm to bounce hard enough to tear the entire arm off, damaging the cab and much of the upper body in the process. Our engineers are hard at work to solve this problem, in order to provide our customers with the high quality products they've come to expect from ST Enterprises.
In the meantime, however: using projections and welders seems to circumvent the drill arm problem.
NOTE NOTE: We've been tinkering with the design of Gaius mk. II. As of 2/24/16, the above problem seems to have been corrected.