That day, a shockwave spread throughout the entire mining industry, one that brought a lot of relief and ecstasy to its highest leaders. The discovery of a new infected world meant that they would finally have the opportunity to mine esoteric ore, which would keep their mining capital busy.
After all, the equipment and technology needed to mine esoteric substance was very different from the kind of equipment that was used to mine regular matter. The mining technology for esoteric matter was composed of esoteric matter. It was expensive, scarce, and was only profitable if used to mine esoteric matter due to the tremendous amount of capital expenditure that went to acquiring and operating such technology.
That meant that in order for the mining industry to remain profitable, they needed a steady supply of infected worlds that they could mine for esoteric matter. It was one of the reasons that the industry to find infected worlds was as large as it was.
