I meant to ask this in the Eyes of Amber entry

[james_davis_nicoll]

Why is so much SF concerned with resource extraction?

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[rbos.livejournal.com]

or EVE, in which mining asteroids is one of the primary means for money.

[scifantasy.livejournal.com]

EVE is the MMO with corporations, right?

[rbos.livejournal.com]

yep. It's fantastically complex to play.

For instance, my corporation is an industrial corporation working out of Empire space; last week we landed a contract from a PVP corporation working out of null-security space (waaaay out on the edge of the star cluster) to manufacture some 20 million rounds of ammunition. It's taken a few weekends of intensive mining in 5-man teams to extract enough ore to fill the contract.

Our client is going to make the pickup in a few days; a convoy has to be arranged with *significant* muscle to survive the trip from out nullsec, through lowsec, to Empire space.

[rbos.livejournal.com]

Pardon; last month we landed the contract.