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To: Venurian Prospecting Ltd

Dear Sirs,

As a Quantar, mining has always been a part of my life. I remember the
day my dear old dad gave me my first toy Bussard Mining Scoop. I slept
with it everyday until the day I was able to bronze it and hang it off
of my first Wayfinder.

Recently I've attained enough status in the Quantar ranks to purchase a
Hurricane, decked out with two of your fine Financiers. Truly, this is
a miner's dream. I flew out to Aman space and happily drained every
piece of rock I could find of it's soul. Besides a minor docking
incident, causing me to purchase a second Hurricane and set of
Financiers, business for me has been good.

However, sitting out in space staring at the hypnotic embers coming off
my lasers as the precious metals flow into my holds, my mind got to
wandering. Reaching over and opening another Quantar Ice, I decided
there has to be a better way.

For so long we have focused on bigger and faster ways to mine. If you
have a Cracker, you want a Broker, and so on. In many ways, I find this
more of a Solrain philosophy. Quantarians believe in purity of their
soul, as well as their ore. Mining Radioactive and Semifluxor roids for
their value leaves a lot of other unnecessary ore in your holds, when
your day is done.

What I propose is this: I, along with others in the mining community,
work with Venurian Prospecting Ltd on a study to develop more precise
mining lasers. Smaller, more precise lasers designed specifically for a
type of asteroid would be marketable.

Things to consider:
* Make a series of size 1 lasers, that "purify" the ore mined from
Rads, Semis, and Precious Metal roids. Ice roids are already fairly
pure, so a special laser would be unnecessary. They would need to be
smaller in size in order to be more precise.
* Study how the modified lasers affect the capacity and regeneration of
roids.
* Study what would occur to the remaining minerals in the roid, if only
a specific mineral is mined.

Sincerely,
Mentali Nikademus
Squad DDZ