DUST Search - Why would you create and train elite mercenaries to mine?

2-Ton Twenty-One wrote:

Alaika Arbosa wrote:

2-Ton Twenty-One wrote:

DUST Fiend wrote:

TERMINALANCE wrote:

maybe if you mine in the 3rd world country today. not in 50 years from now and certainly not in a future where you have giant spaceships.

If the technology is so great, and machines are doing everything, why even have cloned soldiers?

Apparently it's all machines. Mining would still be plenty dangerous because planets can be unpredictable, especially ones that aren't Temperate. You try mining on a Lava planet and tell me how safe that is.

By that logic you would be using capsuleers already to mine on planets and operate the mining machines/ships , as that would still make far more sense then using clone soldiers.

Pods don't fit into subterranean mining equipment that well and Trit (a main component of Pods I assume) blows up or otherwise reacts seriously negatively to oxygen so they would be ill-suited to stripmining as well.

This is why we have squishy barges in space doing the heavy lifting for mining.

Ah ic, then wouldn't they just put the pods in a sealed container or something? and wouldn't it depend on how big the equipment was? I mean they would be far better at piloting a 10000 ton mining drill, wouldn't they?


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Alaika Arbosa Matari Combat Research and Manufacture Inc. Interstellar Murder of Crows 742	Posted - 2013.07.25 14:29:00 - [1] - Quote Who has brought up mining from a Pro-mining stance (aside from those playing devil's advocate to your Anti-mining stance)? Is this in response to people want more from Dust than JALS? Why are you so afraid of Dust being more than JALS that you need to create a ridiculous strawman?
Alaika Arbosa Matari Combat Research and Manufacture Inc. Interstellar Murder of Crows 742	Posted - 2013.07.25 14:32:00 - [2] - Quote 2-Ton Twenty-One wrote: DUST Fiend wrote: TERMINALANCE wrote: maybe if you mine in the 3rd world country today. not in 50 years from now and certainly not in a future where you have giant spaceships. If the technology is so great, and machines are doing everything, why even have cloned soldiers? Apparently it's all machines. Mining would still be plenty dangerous because planets can be unpredictable, especially ones that aren't Temperate. You try mining on a Lava planet and tell me how safe that is. By that logic you would be using capsuleers already to mine on planets and operate the mining machines/ships , as that would still make far more sense then using clone soldiers. Pods don't fit into subterranean mining equipment that well and Trit (a main component of Pods I assume) blows up or otherwise reacts seriously negatively to oxygen so they would be ill-suited to stripmining as well. This is why we have squishy barges in space doing the heavy lifting for mining.
Alaika Arbosa Matari Combat Research and Manufacture Inc. Interstellar Murder of Crows 742	Posted - 2013.07.25 14:40:00 - [3] - Quote 2-Ton Twenty-One wrote: Alaika Arbosa wrote: 2-Ton Twenty-One wrote: DUST Fiend wrote: TERMINALANCE wrote: maybe if you mine in the 3rd world country today. not in 50 years from now and certainly not in a future where you have giant spaceships. If the technology is so great, and machines are doing everything, why even have cloned soldiers? Apparently it's all machines. Mining would still be plenty dangerous because planets can be unpredictable, especially ones that aren't Temperate. You try mining on a Lava planet and tell me how safe that is. By that logic you would be using capsuleers already to mine on planets and operate the mining machines/ships , as that would still make far more sense then using clone soldiers. Pods don't fit into subterranean mining equipment that well and Trit (a main component of Pods I assume) blows up or otherwise reacts seriously negatively to oxygen so they would be ill-suited to stripmining as well. This is why we have squishy barges in space doing the heavy lifting for mining. Ah ic, then wouldn't they just put the pods in a sealed container or something? and wouldn't it depend on how big the equipment was? I mean they would be far better at piloting a 10000 ton mining drill, wouldn't they? They tried that though, the capsuleers went insane from the claustrophobia. The stripmining didn't work out either, seriously, when the trit that goes into one pod goes critical inside an atmosphere, catastrophic things happen. Thankfully, when the Titan crashed on Caldari Prime, most of the trit burned up on entry, otherwise it would've ended much worse for all those poor civvies there.