One of the people I play with showed me this awesome ship today. I had already past beyond it but next server this will SURELY be my first mining CV. Those 4 drills mean I can tunnel without even thinking about it, without maneuvering. And all the really needed equipment is in place: shield, drive. I always go 1) simplest ship ("Atom") and a mechanical drill to get the cobat then 2) Scarab SV 3) mechanical drill mining CV (Pallas Mk2). This Miner69 will take that 3rd role. Also I get back what I invest in less than 1h... so upgrading to whatever I prefer later is not an issue, not at all (i.e. by using this ship I mine 2x the speed of my previous choice, so I make WAY more mins thus making "lost investment" not an issue, even if I don't bother dismantling it later!).
Thank you Movado for this awesome design!!!

Awesome. Cheap, fast, with a shield, defenses and a lot of charge. It eats asteroids in a surprising way. For me it is the quintessential mining ship for asteroids. And the first-person view spans the ENTIRE window. Few things to change, except adding an auxiliary CPU and changing the detector for a more powerful one, but it is totally optional. I remember my first cobalt asteroid, getting on a small ship and mining manually to get a handful of minerals... I took revenge later and reduced the asteroid to rubble in a minute. Fabulous. Congratulations, finally a mining ship that is worth starting with. The ones I tried were SV and they were worthless for almost nothing, taking into account that when starting out there are certain minerals that you can't get easily.