Ronan knew that after the Aberration Era, the Deep Blue World was Earth's most important source of mineral resources... bar none.
The Origin Mother used universally by Deep Blue Walkers for energy storage, as well as the Ghost Stone indispensable to the modern world, both came from this mine.
The Origin Mother was the primary ore, while Ghost Stone was an associated ore.
Human society's great leap into the "Fusion Era" and the "Superconducting Era" had not come from groundbreaking advances in relevant technologies, but from the discovery, extraction, purification, and use of Ghost Ore, this Room-Temperature Superconductivity material.
Naturally, this technological path was unhealthy, especially when both its source and pillar were tied to one place. To put it harshly, it might as well have been called the "Mining Era"... or the "Deep Blue Era."
And the first to come into contact with those mineral resources that dominated human society—and, in a sense, those standing at the very "forefront" of this era—were the Miners laboring in the High-Energy Radiation Mine.
In Mora's data set, this group was mentioned in the section titled "Tracking the Living Environment of Test Participants." In fact, it was impossible to talk about the Deep Blue World without mentioning them.
At present, more than 99% of the Deep Blue World's population were Miners, numbering somewhere between four hundred thousand and six hundred thousand.
Among them were professional teams deployed and rotated through official channels, as well as "permanent residents" who had been brought here by various means ten, twenty, or even thirty years ago.
These two groups essentially had nothing to do with each other until they died.
Around the Stone Shell Sun, the cruel ecosystem created by highly complex vortices and vast numbers of deformed creatures divided an operating area of roughly one million