Orbital Assimilator

Some ships are large and autonomous enough to house an on board tractor beam site known as an orbital assimilator. 
== Functions ==
The assimilator can execute the same basic functions of a tractor beam site such as mining asteroids for materials, creating satellites or even keeping an asteroid in a geolocalized orbit around the ship for future use as an offensive weapon.
Only truly large spaceships can house orbital assimilators, such as the Steward or Mothership/Unfathomable sized space worthy ships.
For example, the Steward can harvest gas from its position. It can also harvest meteors and asteroids using celestial body analysts and tractor/repulsor beam technology.
Category:Asteroid Mining
Category:Dalmer Technology
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