Low Temperature Diamond Mining Operation Report
25 Jun 2020Wayyu
Date: 19th June 3306System: Col 285 Sector XA-M a37-0
Vessels: Hammer (WA-06P), Mafuta (WA-20G)
On 16th June 3306 at 21:13, our fleet carrier Deepship (Q6Z-3VN) arrived at the system Col 285 Sector XA-M a37-0, approximately 15 light-year away from the designated low temperature diamond mining site at Col 285 Sector CC-K a38-2, code-named 'Icebox'. The primary objective of this operation was to extract at least 5000T of low temperature diamond in 3 days to ensure the fleet carrier could be kept operational for at least 10 years.
Hammer (WA-06P), carrying 48 seismic charges and 192 sub-surface displacement missiles, was the main vessel assigned for the operation. Mafuta (WA-20G), with triple class 2 mining lasers and 64 sub-surface displacement missiles, was the backup mining vessel.
During the first 36-hour, the effort was being focused on laser and core mining, the yield was good initially but as time went by, there were lesser and lesser asteroids with low temperature diamond core. Relying solely on laser mining to fill the cargo hold was just too time consuming, and not more than 2000T of diamond were extracted at the end of 2nd day. When prospects started to look grim, a random commander broadcasted a detailed map system wide, showing the location to a legendary asteroid unfathomably rich in sub-surface low temperature diamond deposit.
Since continuing laser mining would not improve the situation any further, I quickly moved to the vicinity indicated by the map. It took me nearly an hour to finally pinpoint the location of the legendary asteroid. The asteroid was egg shaped, ordinary looking and did not seem impressive. Everything changed after I fired a prospector limpet onto it, at least four sub-surface deposits were detected, and it took less than 30 minutes to fill the mining vessel's 200T cargo hold.
Eventually, after multiple trips to the legendary asteroid, the fleet carrier Deepship was able to leave Col 285 Sector XA-M a37-0 on 19th Jun 3306 at 14:00 with approximately 5200T of low temperature diamonds!
