Project Vague is a sandbox MMO environment in which players pilot space ships and travel a universe full of procedurally generated planets. Players will be able to harvest resources from asteroids as well as deposits located on the surface of planets and moons, which can then be used to construct bases and space stations.
Here's some progress on mining lasers. It still needs work but it is a huge step up from the avatar standing there idle as a UI progress bar fills on screen.