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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|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 Orca's tractor beam can haul the cans to the Orca and put the jettisoned cargo away.

~~Ships~~ in the Ship Maintenance Bay ~~(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~~.

Before the Rhea release in December 2014, ships stored in the Ship Maintenance Bay could not drop and were simply destroyed if the Orca was destroyed. This is no longer the case and {{co|crimson|ships have a chance of dropping}}, just like any other ''"container"''. If a ship isn't destroyed, it'll drop fully intact (including everything fitted or carried in the ship; rigs, modules and cargo).

While the ships can drop, it is still impossible to scan past the first ''"layer"'' of the the Ship Maintenance Bay, so people can see what ships you have in there but are unable to see how those ships are fitted or what charges and ammo they might have in their cargo holds. As such it's possible to hide expensive modules on ships in the Ship Maintenance Bay. Just remember that they can still drop and will show up on your lossmail.

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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|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 Orca's tractor beam can haul the cans to the Orca and put the jettisoned cargo away.
-Ships in the Ship Maintenance Bay (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.
+Before the Rhea release in December 2014, ships stored in the Ship Maintenance Bay could not drop and were simply destroyed if the Orca was destroyed. This is no longer the case and {{co|crimson|ships have a chance of dropping}}, just like any other ''"container"''. If a ship isn't destroyed, it'll drop fully intact (including everything fitted or carried in the ship; rigs, modules and cargo).
+While the ships can drop, it is still impossible to scan past the first ''"layer"'' of the the Ship Maintenance Bay, so people can see what ships you have in there but are unable to see how those ships are fitted or what charges and ammo they might have in their cargo holds. As such it's possible to hide expensive modules on ships in the Ship Maintenance Bay. Just remember that they can still drop and will show up on your lossmail.
 ==Notes==