So, if you are going to do that, why not just make it so that the boosting Rorqual is not locked in place by the Industrial Core? In other words, get rid of the mining boost bonus on the Industrial Core. Then make it so that mining boosts no longer work inside the POS shields. It would be nice if the next step after that was to make it so that boosts only worked on grid (or as a targeted module, as you and I have discussed elsewhere).

The next step after that is to give a Rorqual pilot a real reason to expose his ship and lock it in place for five minutes at a time. Various ideas have been kicked around. You could make it so that the Rorqual could tractor beam asteroids to bring them closer to the mining ships. You could also make the Rorqual do something else to the asteroids to make them easier to mine.

Perhaps if there were mining complexes, which had to be scanned down, and inside of them there were very valuable ores, but also very volatile ores, and the only way to keep the miners alive was to remote repair them with capital remote shield reps? Then, people hunting miners would at least have to bring probes. If the Industrial Core increased sensor strength considerably and made it hard to scan down the Rorqual, then it might have a fighting chance. Still, I admit, I'm stretching.

I don't really have any great ideas on this topic, because although I have owned a Rorqual for several months, I have never used it for mining. I'd like to see it become more useful, because it is a great looking ship.

Make the Industrial Core do the same thing as the Triage Module for carriers; more than triple the tanking power and double the RR power.
Fiddle with capacitor capacity/recharge rate accordingly to deal with this newfound ability.

This way, when paired with Procurers/Skiffs, it becomes a true force to be rekoned with.

The only danger is that its Jump Fatigue bonus would have to be removed to prevent it from becoming a "better" Chimera/Nidhoggur.

I don't fly Rorq or know anything about Industrial Core thing, so I can't speak to this idea specifically..

but +1 to making more ships on grid and not in station/ in POS, however you want to do that.

A capital industrial cloaked whilst running its industrial core (which is similar to siege / triage / bastion)
How about we give it a Doomsday device as well?

#deletetheindustrialcore