Originally invented and supplied by the pirate organizations of New Eden, the 'Crop' and ‘Plow' Gas Cloud Harvesters once stood as the most advanced pieces of harvesting equipment available. Although they did not offer any improvement in their harvesting yield, the CPU reduction was valued by many who otherwise struggled to fit a full rack of harvesters to cruiser-class vessels. This one small improvement set the two harvesters above the standard, Tech I variant for many years.