Resource Collector
“Resource collector” is a catch-all term for an automated silo, cache, hopper, or similar, used for collecting refined or unrefined resources, either alongside or instead of manual workers. Non-combat resource collectors can be up to building-sized, fully automated harvesters capable of aggregating numerous different substances.
Resource collectors utilized by combat zeoform teams are smaller, often deployed by pioneer teams, supply aircraft, or from orbit as part of combat operations, either on offense or defense. They are used to extend logistics chains to the battlefield where resources can be directly processed during actual combat, often to affect repairs. Given that many conflicts are over access to resources, possession of active resource collection sites is a major tactical boost to combatants.
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