I am SO SO stupid. So, I have my Kestrel a corpmate gave me (actually...he gave me 9 for some reason). And it doesn't have any turret slots and I got a mining mission, so I figured, HEY! I'm gonna need a badger II anyway, I'll get those skills up right now. Because I needed 1800 units and 12 million jumps back and forth from deadspace is not appealing. But in the mean time I head to try this mission.

I head out to dead space and target the first thing I see, completely ignoring my system overview. And I end up targetting some red rock mineral thingie, but trying to use my basic miner on it gives me a "This item can only be used on asteroids" message. WTH! I run back and try putting the miner on the Kestrel but shockingly it still doesn't have any turret points. So I ignore the mission. I don't turn it down, but I just work on not killing myself because I can't figure it out!

So I got the skills up for a Badger II. Finally 3 days later, I stuck a miner on my badger and went out to do the mission, only every time I targetted it said this wasn't an asteroid. So I'd re-read the mission, made myself sure, and tried again. It never worked!!!! So I ran all over, got my ibis (starting ship) back out.....and then realized...what I was targetting was indeed NOT the mission objective. I could have finished this mission days ago.........

Here's to reading what the mission actually says, and watching your system overview instead of targetting directly in space!