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I have reverse-engineered the Mining Platform from the Beltstrike Belter's Handbook (p.8) in both Book 2 and High Guard formats.

Book 2 design

High Guard design

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Book 2 design

Mining Platform, TL15, Type: NS

This is an attempt to reverse engineer the Mining Platform described in the Beltstrike Belter's Handbook (p.8). The original design is in a Book 2 type paragraph description:

Mining Platform (Type NS): using a 5000-ton hull, the mining platform is a non-starship intended for resource exploitation operations. It has no jump drive, but mounts maneuver drive-W and power plant-W, giving a performance of 1-G acceleration. Fuel tankage of 1700 tons supports prolonged independent operations by the ship and its support vessels and vehicles. Adjacent to the bridge is a computer Model/5. There are 175 staterooms and no low berths. The ship has 50 hardpoints, and mounts 50 single turrets fitted with pulse lasers used for mining; 50 tons are allocated for fire control. There are fourteen ship's vehicles; one shuttle, one launch, two pinnaces, and ten prospecting buggies. Up to ten 100-ton seekers can also be accomodated on board. Cargo capacity is 30 tons. A 25-ton mass driver system and a 400-ton processing bay are also installed. The hull is unstreamlined.

The mining platform requires a crew of seven for interplanetary travel (pilot, navigator, three engineers, two medics); it also carries ten administrative and management personnel, and 132 workers, technicians, boat crewmen, and others. Quarters for 175 are provided, allowing 36 passengers (crewmen from the seekers, company officials, etc.). The ship does not engage in commercial passenger service. The mining platform costs MCr1330.7 (including the 1% naval architecht's fee, but not including costs for ten seekers, which are optional) and takes 36 months to build.

Mining platforms are transported from one sytem to another in bulk carriers. Once they arrive in a system, they usually remain there for the rest of their useful service life, and are eventually sold to interested parties or broken up for spares and scrap.

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High Guard design

Ship: Termite
Class: Termite
Type: Mining Platform
Architect: Joseph Kimball
Tech Level: 11

USP
         NS-E701153-000000-10000-0 MCr 1,416.698 5 KTons
Bat Bear                   Z       Crew: 139
Bat                        Z       TL: 11

Cargo: 30 Passengers: 36 Fuel: 1,700 EP: 50 Agility: 0
Pulse Lasers Craft: 1 x 95T Shuttle, 1 x 20T Launch,
2 x 40T Pinnaces, 10 x 4T Prospecting Buggys,
10 x 100T Type J Seekers Fuel Treatment: On Board Fuel Purification
Substitutions: Z = 50

Architects Fee: MCr 13.222   Cost in Quantity: MCr 1,152.259


Detailed Description
  (High Guard Design)

HULL
5,000.000 tons standard, 70,000.000 cubic meters,
Dispersed Structure Configuration

CREW
Pilot, Navigator, 8 Engineers, Medic, 50 Gunners, 8 Flight Crew,
70 Other Crew

ENGINEERING
Jump-0, 1G Manuever, Power plant-1, 50.000 EP, Agility 0

AVIONICS
Bridge, Model/5 Computer

HARDPOINTS
50 Hardpoints

ARMAMENT
50 Single Pulse Laser Turrets organised into 50 Batteries (Factor-1)

DEFENCES
None

CRAFT
1 95.000 ton Shuttle (Crew of 2, Cost of MCr 33.000),
1 20.000 ton Launch (Crew of 2, Cost of MCr 14.000),
2 40.000 ton Pinnaces (Crew of 2, Cost of MCr 20.000),
10 4.000 ton Prospecting Buggys (Crew of 0, Cost of MCr 0.750),
10 100.000 ton Type J Seekers (Crew of 0, Cost of MCr 0.000)

FUEL
1,700 Tons Fuel (0 parsecs jump and 28 days endurance,
plus 1,650.000 tons of additional fuel)
No Fuel Scoops, On Board Fuel Purification Plant

MISCELLANEOUS
175 Staterooms, 36 Middle Passengers, 30 Tons Cargo,
286.500 Tons of Waste Space

USER DEFINED COMPONENTS
1 Mass Driver (price incl. w/ Proc. Bay) (25.000 tons, Crew 0, Cost MCr 0.000),
1 Processing Bay (400.000 tons, Crew 0, Cost MCr 286.700)

COST
MCr 1,335.420 Singly (incl. Architects fees of MCr 13.222),
MCr 1,057.759 in Quantity, plus MCr 94.500 of Carried Craft

CONSTRUCTION TIME
148 Weeks Singly, 118 Weeks in Quantity

COMMENTS
This is an attempt to reverse engineer the Mining Platform described in the 
Beltstrike Belter's Handbook (p.8). The original design is in a Book 2 type 
paragraph description.

In adapting this to High Guard, some adjustments have been made.
1. Book 2 doesn't deal with energy points, so there are not enough to run all 
the lasers and the computer at the same time.  In a game I would allow this to 
represent having 3 of the lasers at a time being scheduled down for 
maintenance and repair.  In other words, even though this ship has 50 
batteries of lasers on paper, only 47 of them can actually be brought online at 
the same time.
2. Book 2 crew rules are followed, even though High Guard rules normally 
apply above 1000 tons.  The original crew listing totalled 185 instead of 175 as 
written, so I have assumed that the 10 administrative personnel are part of the 
132 "other" crew listed.  There are 8 engineers instead of the 3 listed in the 
Book 2 description because of the larger size of High Guard drives.
3. The cost of the ship is somewhat higher than the Book 2 description, mainly 
because of the higher cost of High Guard drives.  On the other hand, High 
Guard doesn't charge for hardpoints or turrets where Book 2 does.

Original description:
Mining Platform (Type NS): using a 5000-ton hull, the mining platform is a 
non-starship intended for resource exploitation operations. It has no jump drive, 
but mounts maneuver drive-W and power plant-W, giving a performance of 
1-G acceleration. Fuel tankage of 1700 tons supports prolonged independent 
operations by the ship and its support vessels and vehicles. Adjacent to the 
bridge is a computer Model/5. There are 175 staterooms and no low berths. 
The ship has 50 hardpoints, and mounts 50 single turrets fitted with pulse 
lasers used for mining; 50 tons are allocated for fire control. There are fourteen 
ship's vehicles; one shuttle, one launch, two pinnaces, and ten prospecting 
buggies. Up to ten 100-ton seekers can also be accomodated on board. Cargo 
capacity is 30 tons. A 25-ton mass driver system and a 400-ton processing bay 
are also installed. The hull is unstreamlined.

The mining platform requires a crew of seven for interplanetary travel (pilot, 
navigator, three engineers, two medics); it also carries ten administrative and 
management personnel, and 132 workers, technicians, boat crewmen, and 
others. Quarters for 175 are provided, allowing 36 passengers (crewmen from 
the seekers, company officials, etc.). The ship does not engage in commercial 
passenger service. The mining platform costs MCr1330.7 (including the 1% 
naval architecht's fee, but not including costs for ten seekers, which are 
optional) and takes 36 months to build.

Mining platforms are transported from one sytem to another in bulk carriers. 
Once they arrive in a system, they usually remain there for the rest of their 
useful service life, and are eventually sold to interested parties or broken up for 
spares and scrap.

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