Deep Space Nine's Processor/Ore Refinery Spacedock notes

Dave, Jewel and I were talking over dinner about Deep Space Nine Station from Book the Cardassian book 1. Dave remarked that the Ore processors were not listed in the book or what the SU’s cost for them. This is what I came up with on the spur of the moment on the back of a napkin.

Processor/Ore Refinery
SU’s Cost: Size + 10 for processor, +2 for additional product produced, + 10 for a fully automated systems, +2 SU’s for the computer monitoring.

Power Cost: Equal to the SU’s for power.

Build much like the Terok Nor/Deep Space Nine space station in orbit of the home planet of Bajor, this is station was used during the Cardassian rule to strip mining the planet. Each of these processors required four crewmembers per 1 SU.

Example: The Cardassian Ore Processing Space Station, Terok Nor with its six ore processors and a single processors with 22 SU’s, would have 88 forced Bajoran laborers working the processors many functions. With six processors operating at the same time would bring the Bajoran laborers up to 528. For the processor operation of feeding the processor, monitoring the individual operations of the processor and handling the finished products and storing the materials into the cargo holds.

When active these processors could produce one kilogram of useable product per round per SU’s cost. This would allow production of over fifteen tons of processed ore per hour for Terok Nor for a single processor, with the three producing 45 tons. Oddly these Terok Nor Processors cold easily process over 1000 tons in a 24-hour period. One could estimate that at least once a day a cargo ship would arrive to haul off the product while others freighters would be arriving to deliver at least two loads of ore per day.

Processors can be processing only one kind of material at any time with an additional material made from the impurities taken from the ore with the cost of two SU’s. This dose not reduces the tonnage processed but GMs will decide on the percentage. If it was me I would say that each ton of ore processed twenty percent would be impurities in the ore that would have to be dealt with by removing and eight percent would be hazardous materials that would have to be stored and two percent for anything else that could come up to you.

The United Federation of Planets tends to use fully automated processor systems and requires only one person per 2 SU of processor. Example: If the Federation installed the automated processor in the DS9 at 32 SU’s would have a crew of 16 workers instead of the 88. This system can also be completely run by a computer system with the addition of 2 SU’s and then where no personnel would be needed.

The different types of processors can be processing everything from mineral ores to rare gasses, food processors converting animal and grown food from their raw forms to the eatable forms. In Alien the Commercial Starship Nostromo 180924609 a towing tug pulling a cargo pallet with automatic processors.

Here is the add in for the Terok Nor space station
Ore Processor: 3 processors units (15 kilos/round) [22 power/round] <22 x 3 = 66>

Let me know what you think.