Mines

While the term 'Mine' isn't entirely misleading when it comes to what a Mine does, it isn't quite as all-encompassing a term as it should be. Mines are usually all encompassing for metallurgy, meaning that they handle the ores that they mine from the point of being in the dirt to an almost-finished product. This means at least rudimentary manufacturing capability, massive metal refineries, mining equipment, and a slew of other technologies are usually housed in these mines. As such, they are extraordinarily valuable to the economies of worlds which they are housed on, and are usually rather well-defended by private military forces.

On worlds like Arkar, where all order has more or less simply fallen, mines are one of those rare few things which allow a person income and a chance off the planet. Of course, this means that positions in a mine are highly sought after and often fought for. It also means that those same private military forces which are 'hired on' in most cases are nonexistant on Arkar, and are replaced by mercenaries and bandits in many cases. This means that there are almost incessant conflicts over the ownership of mines, the 'taxes' imposed upon miners by their protectors being constantly fluctuating, and that anybody and everybody on the planet would steal from them if they could.