given that miners do not have much to worry about i was thinking we should build a ship for them.

An ORBITAL DRONE

orbital drone costs
100k metal- 50k cry- 20k deut

this is how it should work- when sent on mission- orbit moon(acs def)- it should gather the metal and cry left around the planet- it should be able to gather 20k res/ hour and should have a storage capacity of 100k
deut consumption should be double than that of a destroyer because it should use advanced high energy systems to detect and gather nanobebries of debries sitting around the moon

the rec gets the big rocks
the drone the dust- this way it should gather a rather high amount of tes if in high numbers- the limitation will be the high deut use for fs

pretty good but would overpower them then xD
if you get like 20K then it would be impossible!!!
maybe you can make it while it is 'recycling' you set it to times and the longer the time is, the more deut it uses
and maybe higher price?