Buckunawa

The Buckunawa-Class Miner was one of the oldest running designs in the MercDragon fleet. While it was smaller than what most factions would consider a "heavy" miner, the Buckunawa was optimized to be able to gather resources at least as fast as most equivalent heavy miners designed by other factions.
== Description ==
The Buckunawa features the same MilSpec salvaging technology and electronics package as the smaller Asterion Miner.  Various field tests have shown that it was able to strip mine an average of 100 to 150 asteroids per hour while still having enough defensive countermeasures to evade pirates and protect its often very valuable loads of cargo.
While MercDragon made several attempts to design newer and better mining ships, all of the intended successor classes were outperformed by this old workhorse up until the release of power 2.0 reactors.
This ship was officially replaced by the smaller Basilisk-class miner in January, 2318; however, a number of them still remain in service.
Category:Ships
Category:Civilian Ships