Talk:Core/@comment-212.219.32.226-20110328143828/@comment-3998950-20120113212701

You can do it without any special blueprints! If your low on money and ship power/defense, start by minining Orchazine and doing Garbage clean-up, and when you get to the required amounts, simply buy a Hiroto Protoscan, a IMT 4.0, a Beamshield, a E6 D-X Plating, and Hire 3 Wingman. The only requirement is at least 4 energy cells and the Khador Drive. Make sure your ship has at least 130 armor and 1 weapon. No Automatic Turrets! Also required for your ship is 4 Equipment Slots and 55 Cargo Space. If you successfully mine a Void Essence, Your going to need 50+1 space! A Sight Suppressor and Mael also might help. Leave an extra slot for each of them if you choose to. I successfully mined with just a Badger ship, the Beamshield II, an E6 DX Plating, and an IMT 4.0. If you want more accuracy, Try the Kyuul. It's cheeper too. But you can't beat Gunant's Drill... but it's even expensive and hard to build, not to mention the price of the drill. A better approach at this is to grab it when you enter their system on your terms (When you choose to) before you blow up the mothership. Otherwise, you'll face an army most likely.