Making Mining Borgs useful again?

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Do mining borgs even need to exist at all anymore? Mining is a nice, easy job that doesn't need the extra manpower any more than hydroponics needs plant-watering borgs.

From a logistical point of view, you are correct. The way mining is currently set up, any borg could just use a pod and perform far better than a borg with a mining module. This stays the same even if the module was changed. I think the point of it is just to add gravy. More flavor and more freedom of choice for the player.

I could certainly see cyborgs trimmed down to 3 modules. Civilian, Engineering, and Scientific. The problem being the disparity of power between modules. And by power, I mean the ability to kill people, which is what most people use to rate modules. Which is dumb. Still, it's a thing. It's also a bit more boring.