The Trebler is a 534 ore crate capacity mining ship with three automated rotating laser drills for mining operations. It is designed to be a short range, high capacity and high efficiency miner used out of a capital ship.

Usage

To enter the ship, there is are buttons on either side of the cockpit of the ship that will open Doors. Once inside you can also open and close the cockpit glass Canopy. Buttons for these are available in the pilot left side console.

Flying the Ship

The left lever on the center console controls backwards thrust (braking) and the right lever controls forward thrust.

Mining

To approach an asteroid, point the center range finder at an asteroid and activate Approach. Once in range (optimum range is 16 to 20m on Distance), activate Lasers to turn on the mining lasers. Activating Rotate will rotate the laser drill.

The laser drill has three modes.

• Fixed mode will keep all lasers converged to the asteroid detected by the center range finder.
• Manual mode allows adjustment of the Drill Pitch. The pitch range is from -15 to 20 degrees.
• Auto mode will activate Rotate and progressively increase the drill pitch with the rotations

Drill Pitch can only be adjusted in Manual mode. Eco mode will only use two lasers to conserve power. Drill Count controls whether one, two or three drills are activated when mining.

Mine is a button which will activate automated mining. Point the center range finder at an asteroid and activate. It will activate Material Scanner and Approach, and once in range it will automatically activate Lasers.

Collect turns on the six ore collectors.

If batteries start running out of charge while mining, turn on Min Gen. Continous use of the lasers and collectors at the same time requires a Min Generator Limit of around 90%.

Ore Scanner

Activate using the Material Scanner button. The laser will try to adjust to point at the objects detected by the center range finder. Scan results will show on the Materials panel in number of stacks. It has a maximum range of 100m.

Managing Power and Fuel

Managing Power

By default the generator will only run and ramp up when the batteries need charging so there is minimum management needed. But you can set a minimum generate rate by setting the Min Generator Limit value using the switch for the minimum rate and turning on Min Gen.

Refueling Propellant

All four resource bridges can be used for refuelling propellant. To refuel from another ship, turn off Flow Out on the pilot right side console and leave Flow In turned on. Then connect a resource bridge to the other ship. To refuel another ship, do the opposite, Flow Out turned on and Flow In turned off.

Remember to turn Flow In and Flow Out back on if you are using the Endo to collect ore via any of the ship's resource bridges.

Other Stuff

Timer

On the pilot center console there is a Timer panel which acts as a timer. It will run when the ship is active and show total time in years, weeks, days, hours, minutes and seconds. To reset the timer, hold down the Reset Timer button on the pilot left console.

Odometer

On the pilot right console there is a Odometer panel which will keep track of the ship's estimated flight distance based on speed. To reset the trip odometer, hold down the Odometer Reset Trips button on the pilot left console.