Standardized equipment mounts of most civilian ships in 23th century allow wide variety of equipment to be mounted into any ship - provided it has power required to operate it.
Mining ships typically mount codex:railguns, codex:coilguns, codex:lasers or codex:microwave systems for their job, but hardpoint can be used to attach exotic equipment like codex:drone systems.
Hardpoints are used to modularly mount equipment.
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