So, theres a great comet in my system. Started out fairly close, fairly slow moving body. If the comet orbit period is given by the length of the orbital path, then it appears this comet will head about 200 billion kilometers out before returning.
Unfortunately, this baby is a monstrous source of materials and I loaded a buttload of automated mines and a driver on it post haste. (ill have upwards of 60 or 70, with available install base of 70 more, if I should so choose to use).
What are the practical limitations related to deep orbit packet flinging? Once it heads way out, if I want to pick those mines up, i'll have to have a special fleet of hyperdrive capable freighters. On the other hand, it shouldn't greatly affect production; it will happily fling packets back from deep space, resulting in a lonnnnng train of minerals on their way to my homeworld.
What do you think?