Mining Station

East Mining Station
The asteroid is the primary workplace for the brave Shaft Miners.

The largest and best established base on the asteroid, the mining station spans the fracture through the asteroid, and is roughly split into living quarters (west) and ore processing/EVA (east). Most doors require Mining access. Mining Station access is required for external airlocks and EVA. After your flight on the mining shuttle, you arrive on the eastern half of the mining station and can walk to the western half via a glass-walled walkway.

The northeast and northwest outposts both have ore pipelines that lead back to the main ore processing area. The disposals unit leads to a 3x3 tile airless cavern that is impossible to escape without mining or teleportation equipment.

As the mining asteroid exists on a different Z-level from the station, it is often used as a place of exile for Heads of Staff and Head Revolutionaries. It is also spared annihilation in case of a nuclear explosion or self-destruct. Mining station is also often a hive of scum and villainy.

The mining station is reachable via the mining shuttle, which can be embarked upon from the Mining Dock. It is your lifeline to and from the station. Without use of it, you will have to float through space to get back to the station. The shuttle can still be used, despite damage, provided the console is intact.

Production
Across from the mining shuttle airlock passages, this is where most of the action occurs will never occur. This room contains an ore sorter, a furnace, and a stacking machine, as well as the consoles for their operation. They are all made obsolete by cargo's ore redemption machine.

The coin press in the upper left corner can be used to manufacture coins of all kinds of materials. Frankly, this room has a higher chance of being used to store corpses rather than coins.

EVA


Contents (for those of you who can't count):
 * 3 suit storage units containing full mining (ZIS) hardsuits (suit, helmet, mask).
 * A pickaxe.
 * A mining satchel, for collecting ore.
 * A mechanical toolbox.
 * A tank dispenser, which has 10 pure O2 tanks ready for use.
 * A fuel tank to recharge jackhammers.
 * 2 ore boxes in the airlock.
 * GPS devices for when you die so telescience can retrieve you.

West Mining Station


This little complex serves as the combined kitchen, dormitory and bar for the outpost. Apart from the vending machines, the only source of food readily available is a box of donk pockets and the microwave. If you're feeling particularly ambitious, you could ask cargo or botany to ship you some additional foodstuffs.

On this section of the station are a telecommunications room (so you can scream for help when a goliath or traitor on the asteroid), a small medbay with basic medical supplies and a maintenance room to refill oxygen tanks or operate a portable generator. Also available are mining lockers and mining voucher machine in case you suck at your job and forgot to do all that back at the Mining Dock.