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The problem is that larger/tougher internals get hit more often than the smaller/weaker ones. The colony module is 20x the size and strength of the engine components, so you'd need hundreds of mines to get a lucky hit on something other than the colony module.
I'm pretty sure you don't need "hundreds" of mines, because I recently had a convoy fleet of two colony ships and two frigates encounter a minefield; the frigates were destroyed, and both colony ships lost a control component, several engines, and a cargo bay. I don't think my opponent had the time to deploy hundreds of mines.
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The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the
human mind to correlate all of its contents. We live on a placid
island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was
not meant that we should go far. -- HP Lovecraft, "The Call of Cthulhu"