People say mining isn't a dangerous job, but every time you take a barge into a dense 'roid cluster it's like flying through a flak field made of rock. When the rush is on to strip a fresh belt, the mining modules tear the big lodes up so bad you've soon got tonnes of waste rock spraying around at orbital velocities.

If you don't have a competent engineering crew and you get a hole in your shield coverage, even a small chunk of rock moving at a couple of kilometers a second can punch a hole in the side of your ship big enough to suck out all your air and freeze it into nice little crystals for you...

-Audio extract 115.07.03.2237 from the 'Iridium Late Night Bar and Lounge' CPF Security Monitoring System