"This quickly?" Arastia asked her niece with a raised eyebrow. "You know human civilization has a limited mining rate, right? It might be more prudent to limit the rate at which you find infected worlds."
There were even greater limitations during war, where risks and insurance premiums were at all-time highs. The cost of transporting extracted esoteric ores from distant star systems and back into human civilization would undoubtedly rise, making it that much more difficult to do.
Ria understood this rationale, of course. She knew that it was going to be very difficult for her civilization to mine if they were under the threat of invasion, but she knew that the benefit was worth it.
