Those spider miners we saw last week were amazing, but they got me thinking: how would we manage to transport such a contraption without a ship as big as or larger than an Idris?asked by Infamous
TL;DRSpider miners are too big for small ships or an Idris; they would probably already be on-site, owned by corporations, though bigger transport ships might possibly come later.
I don't know. How big are they?
They're really big.
I mean, the scale on that demo of the guy running across the platform, it's like a Hornet is very small compared to one of those things. I saw one. They had one on a test level in the dogfighting test, and so I flew up right next to it, and it was just sort of like staring up in awe.
So probably not, right, Rob?
Not on the small ships, no. You're going to need a bigger ship. I don't know how big.
No, we can't fit one in an Idris. There's no way. It's just too big. And they'll already be there, so there'll be corporations that own those, and they'll be there on the things that you can then get when you're there.
Yeah, those are like real high-end things.
And maybe there's bigger ships that transport them later. I mean, we just showed a Destroyer the other day. We just showed that off to everybody, so that's kind of cool.