Automated Stripmine

A large structure built around a planet, in order to strip mine the planet's surface, gathering large amounts of minerals.

Stages
Automated Strip Mine Construction Site

The construction site for a future Automated Strip Mine. It contains everything needed to construct the orbital mining apparatus as well as the planetbound factories.

Automated Strip Mine Orbital Apparatus

This large orbital apparatus is equipped with two enormous tractor beams capable of pulling large amounts of minerals into orbit. Those minerals will be extracted by a plethora of automated drilling units on the surface of the planet.

Automated Strip Mine

A large orbital construct pulling large amounts of mineral from a planet. The minerals are extracted by thousands and thousands of drilling units on the surface of the planet, peeling it away layer by layer.