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Originally Posted by malloyd
About the same thing that's happening to the water, iron, oxygen or alumina. It's an ubiquitous resource anybody can gather in-system in any amount they want. It simply doesn't make sense as an article of interstellar commerce.
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Except that's not the case for everyone. Industrialised (or preindustrial) societies that aren't space-capable certainly can't get them on their own.
Maybe this is part of the problem of how the lower tech societies are supposed to fit in with the Imperium. If a world does not have the technology to travel into space, does it still have access to resources that are out there? Do traders ship it in to them? Does it have any claim to those resources in its system, or are they just plundered by everyone else because they have no means to stop them?