I installed a rocket pod today, for fun. I scavenged the launcher from a corvette derelict and got hundreds of missiles as a bonus. I'm not gonna raid any cargo ship, too risky, but I know how I'd use it... Today, Airday.
I blown the asteroid outer shell off easily, not as effective as using the modded large drill, but it's twice as fun!T The explosion vaporized a large chunk of ice but it was worth it. I could feel the heat inside the cockpit. The strings of stone and ice debris flows in a beautiful pattern. I readied the rocket pod, wanting to dig deeper. But the stones seems to block the pod opening, BAM! The pod blew up, took off a section of the armor plates. Depressurized the hull almost instantly and blew up my ears drum (again). It was a ridiculous sequence of events that led to me almost dying. My vision blurred, I shook my head, put on my helmet, facepalmed, cussed twice, and went to sleep in my EVA suit. I'll patch the damn hole later.
I awoke to the oxygen alarm in my suit. A steady, obnoxious beeping that eventually roused me from a deep and profound desire to just ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ die. Checking out my ship, I saw the debris had plowed through my comm'-monitor computer. It would only take five minutes to fix if I has the Radio-comm part. Without it, I can't scan for derelict. There are two options: First is continue my journey and see if i could come across any asteroid with silicon. The second option is I could backtrack to the corvette I've taken the rocket pod from (I've marked it in gps). It's two hundreds Kilometer away.
I'm too lazy to even turn my ship around. I patched the hole with simple catwalk plate, gather as much ice as possible, and proceed with the first option..