Pilot notes:
Welcomed by Krugers in their part of Wuppertal Refinery. They prepared specialistic Behemoth-class transport, outfitted with advanced scanning and surveying systems. First we took off and headed to their mining field, with scanners showing promising results. Their Koeln mining operation is undermanned and under-funded, but with some investment it'd appear the scale of mineral extraction would expand and pay off relatively quickly.
Next stop were asteroid rings around planet Steinfurt. Although our earlier scans did not show promising results on the planet's surface, Krugers resorted to ingenuity and concentrated on the rings surrounding the planet. It appears meteors intercepted by the gravity well and caught in the ring system could be a good and easily accessible source of ores. More field tests will be conducted later.
As we had only 1/3 of fuel left after hours of surveying, before returning to the base we quickly surveyed local part of Walker Nebula in the system. Meersburg's scanners were heavily reduced in range within, and mine nearly didn't work. Scans didn't show any significant resources in our proximity, and we were met with relatively strong resistance from pirate tertiary forces. This was a quick and fruitless scanning operation. After consultation with Meersburg, we decided to end the first phase of initial survey operation and return to the base.
More scanning of the system's resources will follow.
