The Metenox Moon Drill is a deployable structure that was introduced in the Equinox expansion. It can be deployed at moon mining points in lowsec, nullsec, and wormhole space, and is a fully automatic way of extracting raw moon minerals from minable moons. The Metenox Moon Drill is a less efficient extraction method than manual extraction by players using an Athanor or Tatara. Instead, it slowly collects raw moon minerals over time. Players can control who has access to take the moon materials it harvests with an Access Control List.
Only a single Metenox Moon Drill, Athanor, or Tatara can be at the same moon mining location at any time. Metanox Moon Drills will require an Integrated Moon Drill Armature to be built, and will always drop it at a 100% rate. This functions as a built in Upwell Quantum Core. The cost of the core is 300 million ISK in Upwell Consortium member stations
The Metenox Moon Drill features a unique reinforcement flow. Once it has been deployed, the Metenox Moon Drill will not have automatic repairs like other Upwell Structures. Instead, players will need to manually repair the shield and armor if it gets attacked. The Metenox Moon Drill has a single reinforcement cycle in Hull, once it leaves reinforcement, it will need to be repaired to 100% Shield OR 100% Armor HP in order to fully repair itself and gain the reinforcement cycle back and be able to have the service module turned on again. This means that while it is reinforced, the Metanox Moon Drill will not extract ore and the ore inside of the Drill will not be accessible. Unlike other Upwell Structures, the Metenox Moon Drill does not have a damage cap.
The Metenox Moon Drill provides no defenses, weaponry or tether ability.