Are there any plans to allow ships besides the small minority (I think the Prospector, the Reliant, the Terrapin, maybe the Reclaimer) to search for mineable resources, even if they can't mine them themselves?

Definitely, yes. It should not be something that is restricted to a ship. It is right now because those ships come equipped with a specific radar that can find resource signatures. The goal is eventually for any ship that has the power requirements, or the size of slot needed for that radar, to be able to equip the radar. But there will be a downside. A radar that is very good at detecting these resource signatures will be not so good at detecting ships. So you're probably going to be able to detect something to mine from, let's say, three kilometers, but then you'll also lower your ship detection from, whatever, 10 kilometers to about half of that. So there's a trade-off. If you want to be good at finding resources, you're not going to be so good at finding enemies. So it's up to the player to configure their ship how they want, based on what function they want to serve. It might be that I have a ship that I use for fighting a lot of the time, but my buddy needs me to scan ahead of him and find mineables for his Prospector, or her fleet of Prospectors. And you just go, yeah, I'll equip this one, I'll do this job now. But if we're getting attacked, I'll be a bit blind.