Timote: This is in fact exactly what I had in mind.
'daneside provides equipment and the initial trained workforce.
Rockhounds gets things rolling, pulls in rocks, and brokers everything.
Fen who want to try their hands at asteroid mining get training, a place to sell their haul, and a secure habitat to live in while they do it.
Diamondoid construction materials are probably going to be a big initial export to the 'daneside, as well as to other fen. They'll be /expensive/, 'daneside, so you won't see them used to huge extent at first... but you might start seeing it used as reinforcement for structural bits, especially in high-end luxury cars, military vehicles, etc.
Random thought: A supply of diamondoid-and-vacuum-forged-steel statues of Stellvia, mounted on polished asteroid rock, for said station's gift shop to sell to 'daneside tourists...![[Image: wink.gif]](http://www.ezboard.com/intl/aenglish/images/emoticons/wink.gif)
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"I give you the beautiful... the talented... the tirelessly atomic-powered...
R!
DOROTHY!
WAYNERIGHT!
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Sucrose Octanitrate.
Proof positive that with sufficient motivation, you can make anything explode.
'daneside provides equipment and the initial trained workforce.
Rockhounds gets things rolling, pulls in rocks, and brokers everything.
Fen who want to try their hands at asteroid mining get training, a place to sell their haul, and a secure habitat to live in while they do it.
Diamondoid construction materials are probably going to be a big initial export to the 'daneside, as well as to other fen. They'll be /expensive/, 'daneside, so you won't see them used to huge extent at first... but you might start seeing it used as reinforcement for structural bits, especially in high-end luxury cars, military vehicles, etc.
Random thought: A supply of diamondoid-and-vacuum-forged-steel statues of Stellvia, mounted on polished asteroid rock, for said station's gift shop to sell to 'daneside tourists...
-- "I give you the beautiful... the talented... the tirelessly atomic-powered...
R!
DOROTHY!
WAYNERIGHT!
--
Sucrose Octanitrate.
Proof positive that with sufficient motivation, you can make anything explode.