Making Mountains of Molehills (1 of 10)

Objectives

“Mine the Veldspar ore in the asteroid field your agent sent you to and bring 999 (99.9m³) units to your agent. “

Mission Type: Mining Encounter

*no enemies*

Overview

This is a very simple start for the beginning of this career arc. All you’re tasked with doing is mining some veldspar ore from a lone asteroid at a mission encounter. Your agent only requests that you deliver the unrefined ore itself in a small enough quantity that it can be easily mined in a rookie ship. If you don’t have access to one, you can dock your pod in a station where you have no other active ships, and a rookie ship will be gifted to you, complete with a civilian weapon and mining laser.

Since there are no hostile enemies here, you can swap in another mining laser, forgoing any offensive weaponry for a quicker (slightly) harvest.

If you’re looking to make extra isk, you can continue to mine the entire asteroid, though doing so in a rookie ship may be a bit of a pain. Since there is no acceleration gate limiting what ships you can bring to the encounter, it is totally possible for higher trained characters to bring in mining barges to quickly strip the resources.

Alternate options also include mining from the asteroid belts that exist in most systems, which are more like public access spots for mineable ores. However, the belts in the rookie systems, especially the higher trafficked ones, tend to be stripped pretty early on in the day.

You can also just buy some from the market and turn it in to your agent for a quick completion, as some merchants usually sell items required for the career arc objectives in the systems where the arcs take place. Finally, the business-minded might find they want to sell some veldspar they’ve mined themselves in these systems for the very same reason.

Note: You must harvest at least one partial cycle from the asteroid in your mission encounter to complete the objectives. You don’t need a full cycle, so turning your mining laser on and off real quick still counts.

Note 2: Having extra Veldspar from this mission, enough to refine into 750 units of Tritanium, will allow you to complete the next mission’s objective instantly.

Mineable Asteroids

1 x Veldspar – 50,000 Units (5,000m³)

Rewards:

• + 0.3142 % corporation standing
• 1 x Miner I (Granted)
• 121,000 Isk
• 102,000 Isk bonus (2 hours, 52 Minutes)