And now, the Four Mining Methods of the Empires.
GALLENTE: Pack your biggest, baddest weapons and a Miner I. Make sure you know that you're the biggest, baddest, and prettiest around. Warp to a belt, see a rat, and immeadiately surrender.
CALDARI: Refuse to buy drones. Instead hire some street urchins for the cost of room and board, strap jetpacks on their cheap, shoddy EVA suits, and hand them pickaxes. Occasionally shoot one to convince the others to work harder.
AMARR: Continue the grand tradition of the Holy Empire by burning away the impurities of the roids with your blessed mining lasers. Later blame infidels for the clouds of dust and debris choking the belts.
MINMATAR: Strap weapons and a warp drive to the roid. Fly it into Amarr space on a screaming kamikaze mission. Blame the Empire when your ship gets mined out of existence when passing through Caldari space in an attempt to be sneaky.