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A fine gray dust rose from the gaping maw cut into the lithosphere of the newly acquired planet. Heavy black machines moved the soil here and there. The constant whine of engines filled the air. What once were a green meadow, a stand of forest trees, a few small lakes, were now mounds of rock, dirt, and boulders. The quest for metals under the topsoil led to the desecration of Rondian.
Banff stood next to a hovercraft surveying the progress of the third shift of laborers. The land scans and samples told where the veins were that held what was highly sought after. The Vancurelians were always ones to take advantage of an opportunity. When he devised a way to identify where the metals were located in a galaxy, it became a matter of removing that which stood in his way. The demand for me
