Description
As a key member of the Upwell Consortium, the Outer Ring Excavations (ORE) corporation has been keen to locate and exploit hidden reserves of rare ice containing valuable and rare deposits of Hyper-Isomorphic Strontium Clathrates (HISC). This rare, highly symmetrical, complex yet compact form of Strontium Clathrates is hard to extract and process but has high utility and value in the space industries. Much like standard Strontium Clathrates, HISC can be used to power structure defense systems and forcefields but with greater efficiency and theoretically much greater resistance to incoming damage.
Due to the rarity of the ice variants containing HISC (such as Geodesic Krystallos and Supersymmetrical Gelidus), and the extreme difficulty of processing the dense and molecularly complex ices into useful fuel, ORE has set up special central ice repository and refinery facilities in convenient ice fields. These facilities send out ice mining expeditions to seek more of the rare, fleeting fields of ice that contain the HISC-bearing ice variants and bring the raw materials back to the Ice Refinery for processing into the highly useful and extremely valuable HISC-99 fuel. To attain 99% purity, the raw HISC ices are cracked and refined in a special facility that pumps the high-value HISC-99 into special storage tanks.
The Ice Refinery controls a number of special Automated HISC-99 Tankers which ferry the refined fuel from the refinery to a remote spaceship loading dock under strict computer control. This safety precaution is designed to prevent any accidents involving spaceships that might lead to the catastrophic liberation of the tremendous amounts of energy that HISC-99 can unleash.
