He was an asteroid miner, from what little I knew of him.

Encapsulated, as I remember it, and found by some asteroid miners.

Even that hot-tempered asteroid miner you left me for last year?

Asteroid miners dig deep for fear of solar storms and meteors.

After all, except for the asteroid miner the Moties have never visited a human ship.

His capsule floated into a solar system that had been colonized less than a hundred years ago and a gang of asteroid miners found him.

Have you spent a hundred yearsŔ aboard a starship, or fought off a team of angry asteroid miners?

Acorna had been raised by human asteroid miners.

Probably just stuff from the asteroid miners.

"Imagine my pure, unsullied, young self thrust among hardened asteroid miners."