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The use of the ORCA is not limited to having large cargo and ORE bays. A mining tactic to use when in a can flipping area is to have frigates or cruisers stored in the Corporate Maintenance Bay and have your fleet swap your mining ships for one of these. A can flipper will look twice if, after he flips your can, several cruisers, a logi, and a tackler suddenly appear. To do this, the mining ship must be within 2500m of the ORCA. This coupled with a decent drone bay, will protect a mining fleet from random pirates, while allowing a decent time to get “The Cavalry” to protect your mining fleet. A note on ship swapping, Combat ships can have nothing in their cargo bays except ammunition. Miners can have nothing in their cargo bays except mining crystals. Prior to docking, miner should jettison all ore and other articles, and the ORCAs tractor beam can haul the cans to the ORCA and put the jettisoned cargo away.

Ships in the SMB will never drop. Modules fitted to those ships will never drop, and cannot be scanned. A tactic sometimes used to move expensive modules, such as those for an Incursion battleship, is to fit them to a ship (cheap frigates are the usual choice), and put that ship in the SMB, removing them from the consideration of anyone ganking for profit.

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 The use of the ORCA is not limited to having large cargo and ORE bays. A mining tactic to use when in a can flipping area is to have frigates or cruisers stored in the Corporate Maintenance Bay and have your fleet swap your mining ships for one of these. A can flipper will look twice if, after he flips your can, several cruisers, a logi, and a tackler suddenly appear. To do this, the mining ship must be within 2500m of the ORCA. This coupled with a decent drone bay, will protect a mining fleet from random pirates, while allowing a decent time to get “The Cavalry” to protect your mining fleet. A note on ship swapping, Combat ships can have nothing in their cargo bays except ammunition. Miners can have nothing in their cargo bays except mining crystals. Prior to docking, miner should jettison all ore and other articles, and the ORCAs tractor beam can haul the cans to the ORCA and put the jettisoned cargo away.
+Ships in the SMB will never drop. Modules fitted to those ships will never drop, and cannot be scanned. A tactic sometimes used to move expensive modules, such as those for an Incursion battleship, is to fit them to a ship (cheap frigates are the usual choice), and put that ship in the SMB, removing them from the consideration of anyone ganking for profit.
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