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== Tabletop Games ==
* In ''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'', the alien race called the Demiurg mostly live in massive ''Stronghold''-class cityships, and tend to survive by asteroid mining. Quite fitting, as they are basically [[Our Dwarves Are All the Same|Dwarfs]] [[Recycled in Space|IN SPACE!]]
** Ironically, they are replacements for the last Dwarves In Space, which were [[retcon]]ned and became the [[Unperson|unmentionables]].
* The ''[[Star*Drive]]'' fluff mentions asteroid mining as a common (though dangerous) source of income, especially in frontier regions.
* One of the career options in the sci-fi [[Role -Playing Game|RPG]] ''Traveller'' is "Belter", their name for asteroid miner.
* ''[[GURPS]]: Spaceships'' has a bunch of asteroid mining ships in the Industry book. Asteroid miners also show up in their ''Transhuman Space'' setting.
* Present in [[Traveller]] . Glisten, one of the most important mining colonies in the traveller universe subverts the trope of the wild frontier asteroids, being a cultured and civilized place and the home of important grandees. Several other belts play this straight.
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* A viable, but boring career path in ''[[EVE Online]]''.
** At least until one of the [[Space Pirates]] shows up to ruin your day.
* ''[[LegoLEGO Rock Raiders]]'', and the sets it's based on, features a team of miners who are on their way home from another planet when their ship gets hit by an asteroid [[It Got Worse|and]] ''sucked into a wormhole to another galaxy''. They then have to mine a nearby [[Death World]] for Energy Crystals to power their ship and get home. It's essentially a fun [[Troperiffic]] take on the whole Asteroid Miners concept, with some [[Space Western]] elements thrown in.
* Also featured in ''[[Freelancer]]'', where it's not quite so boring.
* ''[[Homeworld]]'' had you doing this as well.
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