Merc-TBM

(SV CPU Tier 4, Class 1, Unlock Level 20)

Primary roles: Tunnel Boring Miner, Heavy Shield, harvest storage, some defense, utility, Reforged Eden only

The Merc-TBM (Tunnel Boring Miner) is a specialty miner meant to be able to get precious ore in hostile areas. This however is not done by engaging the enemies, but by ignoring them and burrowing in the ground staying mostly out of harms way. It is set up with a heavy shield with 6 shield capacitors allowing you to take some hits while boring in the ground near enemy bases etc. It is not designed for hit and run tactics as the shield will take awhile to recharge and does not have much in offensive weapons. It however does come with 4 gatling guns and 3 minigun turrets. The TBM also has 21K harvest storage, 1K ammo storage, fridge, O2 and dispenser, armor locker, constructor, wifi, detector, and spotlights. It also has P menu controls for activating mining drills, spotlights, and a high performance flight mode. It also comes with a fairly powerful thruster set up for drilling as well as moving a full load of ore.

Tunnel Boring

As the name suggests, the Merc-TBM was made to create clean tunnels underground. It has the clearance to not get obstructed mining in a forward direction and uses 10 laser drills to allow for the body to pass thru the hole created easily. Because of this, I could not add much in extra blocks past the outer drill locations, however the central locations of mounted turrets does not hamper moving thru self created tunnels which can be made fairly quickly.

Offense and defense

The hull is made with hardened steel. All cargo extensions are behind either hull blocks or thrusters leaving none exposed on the exterior. It comes with a SV Heavy shield (1500 HP) + 6 shield capacitors (500 HP each) bringing the total shield to 4500 HP. This is to allow for some hits while boring underground in hostile areas.

Features Summary:

1. CPU Tier 4, Size Class 1, Player unlock level 20, Reforged Eden Only 2. Hardened steel hull, no exposed cargo extensions 3. Heavy SV shield + 6 shield capacitors 4. 21K Harvest storage, 1K ammo storage 5. 4 gatling guns, 3 minigun turrets 6. Detector, Wifi, O2 and dispenser 7. Armor locker, Fridge, constructor 8. P menu controls for spotlights, mining drills, and thruster performance mode 9. Extra CPU available stock.

I hope you enjoy!

Notes: Do to the parts used such as SV advanced generators, shield capacitors, etc, it will not work in vanilla game play.