How do we gather ore quickly?

[Warnoise]

I am at a point in the Campaign where they ask me to do a bunch of research. The cumulative cost of the research is like 150k< ore.

It took me like half a day to father 50k in order to upgrade the hub, but 150k? this is ridiculous.

I am a stage where I can pretty much solo anything with my ship.I just want to finish the campaign because nothing else is happening.

The other factions fleets are hilariously weak and just wandering around forever (except the occasional 3k armies attacking outposts) And i grinded enough missions to buy my late game ship....so the game is now boring as hell since there is no challenge or any other goal whatsoever.

So what is the fastest way to gather ore because i am not really willing to wait like 10h+ to gather half of the ore reuquirements.

[sfcwoc]

If you've built out your Station - Trade feature (level 1 at least), you can trade materials and gas for ore with other factions. Sending your commercial fleets to gather ore depends too much on the RNG to give you the opportunities needed. Elsewise - grinding the mining feature may help as some credit is given for the ores farmed.

[Raziel]

Trading is the best option, for sure. Sell materials and gas for ore.