Exhumer

Exhumer is a mining ship. It is one of the fastest mining ship in the game along with miner hangar carrier. It is possibly the most dangerous ships (Second only to Ragnarok) in the game.

Properties
The ship is equipped with a rapid-firing, large mining-beam. Although the mining beam does 1 damage per hit, it also generates 2 metal per hit and does quintuple damage vs. fighters. Once spawned, Exhumer will mine the asteroid for 16 seconds before moving to attack the enemy.

Strategies

 * Try to bring Processor to help balance your metal/energy.
 * Strategies to maximize mining yield is similar to Miner. Place your stardock close to the asteroids and try to have your Exhumers circle around those asteroids.
 * Piranha Bay mod is very effective since the ship doesn't advance toward the enemy. Stacked Exhumers can generate large swarm of piranhas, especially when combined with Carrier Rack. This setup combined with self-destruct upgrade can turn exhumer into a dangerous offensive unit.
 * 50%+ firerate improvement will cause the ship to shoot a continuous beam, increasing the metal output greatly (nearly twice more than 40% firerate improvement)