AEA-500
designed and manufactured by the Tagge Mining Company, the AEA-500 was a 20-meter-long prospecting craft developed during the height of the New Order. It required a pilot and dig operator to run, and could carry up to ten metric tons of mineral and ore samples. A series of tri-beam lasers were used to scrape up samples of rock from asteroids and planetoids, while internal plasma units filtered out the valuable materials for storage.