100% agree with this most recent post from Fitzgerald.
My "Uber mining" idea is NOT supposed to be one place. its (I thought I was clear enough)
"got places like this all around Sirius" would be the idea, where in many far reaches of sirius, one could fly out 150K and mine valuable minerals in hostile space.
(How about highly radioactive space, giving way to REPAIR SHIPS which carry 4k each of the b/b's) you gotta have the repair ship using bots to keep itself in one piece, and also passing them to the other pilots, esp. fighters/bombers who are needed to keep those nasties (NPCs/Player, Pirate-types) at bay.