Drill (Mineral) Vanguard (ship)

Towards the end of the last era, the Plutarch Mining Corporation called for a shift away from static station-based asteroid mining towards the far more efficient method of using ships to identify and break down asteroids and bring them to refineries in far less time than it took for a refinery to be attached to a much bigger asteroid. Though it is now different from the PMC's original design, the Drill has been in service ever since, inspiring a train of different mining ships to be released all across the old and new Jump Gate network.