Oolite Bulletins

Make sure you have some nice shields before you start this.

Shoot up a few asteroids until one of them splits up into boulders.
Get to about 0.5 km of one of the boulders
Ram it at about .75 full speed!
Scoop about 6 tons of minerals!
Scoop any splinters that are left over

Not that a cargo hold of minerals is worth much,
but it makes a change from shooting people and keeps the galaxy tidy

I wonder if this is cost effective. Would this maneuver hastens the appearance of the dreaded Maintenance Overhaul?

Would this maneuver hastens the appearance of the dreaded Maintenance Overhaul?

that's the first thing I thought of, since shields don't protect you 100% (or they don't seem to for me, maybe that's just an illusion) and minerals always have a low price I don't think it would be that cost effective. I would appear to me that just trading minerals from planet to planet would be more cost effective.