Quick note before I dive into answers, not all the mining operations have started. I will be starting many more today. So it should be easier to find them.

Some quick answers for all the questions:

Yes you can loot their ore from them should you kill them to try and take it from either miners or haulers.

Attacking them will affect standings towards that corporation.

They will only appear in static asteroid belts.

We are aware of the standings colors for the overview, thank you very much for the feedback. We'll investigate this further.

Positive interactions towards the NPCs is absolutely on our sights. And you'll hear more on that from us soon.

All of the ships have the SKINs of their empire to distinguish who they belong to, take a look at them

They will flee under attack, but right now they instant-warp. This will be balanced in the next day.

Directional Scanner is interesting, thanks for raising that up!

Their aim is asteroids, and will not be venturing through wormholes.

They won't loot player wrecks, but if this is something you're interested in please let us know how you would feel about it.

They're not selling ore on the market, they use it for their own production purposes.

The default overview for General and All will be updated with all the new ships in the coming days.

All the factions have bought mining permits for all their industrialists. After intense negotiations, even the NPC's have decided to fly compliant. That being said, they can suck up as much of James 315's ore as they like. Every unit of veldspar they get is one less for a non-compliant criminal. It's a win-win. But then again, the CODE. always wins.

Always.