While surfing the web I ran across this: http://m.space.com/23138-diamond-planet-super-earth-discovery.html
It turns out that white dwarfs when cooled have a diamond core! Makes sense given that at end of life main sequence stars produce carbon and the slowly cooling white dwarf environment is perfect for diamond formation. Given the many industrial and other uses for diamonds, there could easily be a demand at industrail, high tech and high pop wealthy systems.
I can see adding diamonds to the commodity list and then having some of the outposts produce it from surface mining. This would make the brown dwarfs and burned out stars much more interesting.
I can imagine some great GalNet articles about developing the tech and then mining the diamonds in almost unlimited supply.
It turns out that white dwarfs when cooled have a diamond core! Makes sense given that at end of life main sequence stars produce carbon and the slowly cooling white dwarf environment is perfect for diamond formation. Given the many industrial and other uses for diamonds, there could easily be a demand at industrail, high tech and high pop wealthy systems.
I can see adding diamonds to the commodity list and then having some of the outposts produce it from surface mining. This would make the brown dwarfs and burned out stars much more interesting.
I can imagine some great GalNet articles about developing the tech and then mining the diamonds in almost unlimited supply.
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