Now hear me out, Upwell made haulers that could defend themselves while moving upwell structures, and other things.
What if they teamed up with ORE to make a line of mining ships, that could both gather ore and defend themselves to a certain degree? But ORE not wanting the new ships to fall under Upwell’s banner offers a compromise, a collaboration company between Upwell and ORE called Xzyca mining, Xzyca’s ship would have the sleekness and elegance of upwell, while having the utility of ORE.
“Nowadays Mining ore and ice is a dangerous gig with all the outlaws out there looking for a poor defenseless miner, but what if the poor defenseless miner wasn’t so… Defenseless?” - Upwell’s lead R&D researcher
Lore: After seeing the up-tick in High-sec miners being killed by wolves who wear the guise of a sheep, Upwell see’s a great new market Mining but they don’t have the know how to make mining ships so Upwell R&D reaches out to ORE to talk about a collab.
Ships: The ships or ship would fall under Upwell or ORE and maybe faction
They would get bonuses to Light missiles/rockets fire rate and dmg
something like 5% bonus to Light missile & Rocket damage per skill level
2.5% bonus to Mining hold per skill level
5% bonus to mining yield per skill level
5% reduction to gas cloud scoop duration per skill level
Role Bonus:
100% mining yield
Can fit 3 mining lasers
2+ bonus to warp core strength
This would be a Faction variant venture, it would have 3 high-slots with 2 missile hardpoints and 3 turret hard points for the 3 mining lasers. 3 med slots, 2 low slots, and 3 rig slots.
would be able to launch 2 light drones.
Its resist’s would be like
Shield: 10% em 20% thermal 25% kinetic 25% explosive
Armor: 25% em 22% thermal 12% kinetic 5% explosive
Hull: 16% em 16% thermal 16% kinetic 16% explosive
I know it seems far fetched But I think it would be pretty neat, other people are free to expand on this idea, I just thought it would be cool to have a true battle venture.