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Miner Carrier

A simple miner ship, which gets around its low carrying capacity by being able to dock to dock with its carrier craft to offload ore and recharge.

When docked, it becomes one ship so that controls handle perfectly and you can use the full power of the extra engines on the carrier craft for the longer journeys.

General Handling:
- Everything you need when it's running normally should be on the hotbar
- The only timer blocks you want to be triggering manually are the Connect and Disconnect routines

Heads up:
- Be careful with hotkeys; 'park' especially can screw with the protocols. It may damage itself if it unmerges while the connectors are active.
- The docking procedure sometimes removes the block groupings, so a couple of hotbar items might get lost. The core protocols for the Miner get by without them, so everything should still work.

Extensions:
- It could use a better set of controls for setting up the carrier for docking with other ships / power management
- Generally, more stuff on the carrier. Proof of principle's there; bolt on more cargo or solar panels as you like.
- A lick of paint