Black Masa is committed to providing people with a supply of ores

Deep-space Mining is the process of harvesting minerals, metals and elements from asteroid belts, planetary surfaces and debris floating in deep space. The technique behind the process were pioneered by the Guardians, Tasnicans and Esperians in order to support their colonization efforts, and is still employed by those Great Powers to this day in order to support their increasingly expensive dimension-spanning empires.