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== Combat ==

There is a risk of combat in mining missions from two different sources.

First, the mission itself may be scripted by CCP to spawn hostile NPCs. These spawns will generally be the same faction, type, and number of hostiles every time the mission is run with little variability; they are typically much weaker than NPCs fought in equal-level Security missions. These spawns should be recorded in the specific mission report for that mining mission.

Second, the use of mining equipment anywhere in a solar system can cause hostile NPCs to spawn; mining in a mission location is not exempted from this. These spawns will be the same faction, type, and number of rats that also spawn in that solar system's [[Mining#Asteroids_and_belts|asteroid belts]] and thus will vary~~<ref>At time of edit, 2023-12-28, the UniWiki does not yet have articles dedicated to documenting the different asteroid belt pirate, or "belt rat", spawns.</ref>~~ depending on region, security level, and whether or not an [[Incursion]] is affecting that solar system at the time of mining. Running a level 1 mining mission in 0.9 or 1.0 security (when no Incursion is in effect) is perfectly safe from NPC hostiles, but running that same mission in Null Security could result in a fight with an NPC battleship.

Second, the use of mining equipment anywhere in a solar system can cause hostile NPCs ([[belt rat]]s) to spawn; mining in a mission location is not exempted from this. These spawns will be the same faction, type, and number of rats that also spawn in that solar system's [[Mining#Asteroids_and_belts|asteroid belts]] and thus will vary depending on region, security level, and whether or not an [[Incursion]] is affecting that solar system at the time of mining. Running a level 1 mining mission in 0.9 or 1.0 security (when no Incursion is in effect) is perfectly safe from NPC hostiles, but running that same mission in Null Security could result in a fight with an NPC battleship.

Given the above factors, it is advisable to have some offensive capability (like a set of combat [[drones]]) or have a strong enough [[tank]] that you can ignore any hostiles that show up and start shooting at you.

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 == Combat ==
 There is a risk of combat in mining missions from two different sources.
 First, the mission itself may be scripted by CCP to spawn hostile NPCs.  These spawns will generally be the same faction, type, and number of hostiles every time the mission is run with little variability; they are typically much weaker than NPCs fought in equal-level Security missions.  These spawns should be recorded in the specific mission report for that mining mission.
-Second, the use of mining equipment anywhere in a solar system can cause hostile NPCs to spawn; mining in a mission location is not exempted from this.  These spawns will be the same faction, type, and number of rats that also spawn in that solar system's [[Mining#Asteroids_and_belts|asteroid belts]] and thus will vary<ref>At time of edit, 2023-12-28, the UniWiki does not yet have articles dedicated to documenting the different asteroid belt pirate, or "belt rat", spawns.</ref> depending on region, security level, and whether or not an [[Incursion]] is affecting that solar system at the time of mining.  Running a level 1 mining mission in 0.9 or 1.0 security (when no Incursion is in effect) is perfectly safe from NPC hostiles, but running that same mission in Null Security could result in a fight with an NPC battleship.
+Second, the use of mining equipment anywhere in a solar system can cause hostile NPCs ([[belt rat]]s) to spawn; mining in a mission location is not exempted from this.  These spawns will be the same faction, type, and number of rats that also spawn in that solar system's [[Mining#Asteroids_and_belts|asteroid belts]] and thus will vary depending on region, security level, and whether or not an [[Incursion]] is affecting that solar system at the time of mining.  Running a level 1 mining mission in 0.9 or 1.0 security (when no Incursion is in effect) is perfectly safe from NPC hostiles, but running that same mission in Null Security could result in a fight with an NPC battleship.
 Given the above factors, it is advisable to have some offensive capability (like a set of combat [[drones]]) or have a strong enough [[tank]] that you can ignore any hostiles that show up and start shooting at you.