I went from the noob ship , to a Cobra III and mined with that for a while , however the cargo was not enough so I saved for a Type 6 . I stuck in a decent limpet controller 5 A and 64 T of storage . I have two mining lasers and really it ' s a case of run away if someone comes a knocking . It ' s easy enough to escape NPC but if I ' m mining ice rings then they tend to not want to pirate me anyway . Also I made friends with the outpost people in that system so in the High RES the NPC ' s usually look after me . I ' m new too and enjoying mining . My next goal is to do a rare item trade run . Currently I run with this . CerrnlP 4 . Iw 1 kA . Aw 1 kA ? bnType % 206 % 20 Mining Here ' s a Keelback for mining I ' m not sure what weapons would be best to add though 2 l 2 l 0404 C 0401 nP 4 . Iw 18 UA . Aw 18 UA ? bnKeelback % 20 % 3 F % 20