I will be using the Outrider as the model. At the aft of the Outrider is a large, cargo hold looking section. When the cargo hold is full, the Capsuleer has the option to dock and empty or jettison the cargo hold. When the cargo hold jettisons, another ship, the cargo hold tug would deploy drones capture the cargo hold, place the cargo hold in a new type of Orca designed to attach the cargo hold to its hull. The cargo hold drones, operated by AI, would then remove a new cargo hold from the Orca, place the cargo hold near the aft of the Outrider. The Outrider would then tractor the cargo hold into place so that mining could resume.
There would be obvious advantages and disadvantages but the overall goal is to develop an AI system around moving and stacking.
The better the AI programming that is skilled up the faster the extraction and replacement of the cargo hold.
There would also be the possibility of AI simply traveling off into space due to faulty AI programming.
