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Gleso Industries

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Gleso began its career humbly enough processing the materials sent back by the automated mining drones of Deep Core Mining.

Gleso created four orbiting refineries to process the material brought back. Nothing was wasted. The ice was melted, filtered and refined. The different materials were sorted and smelted and then sold to the resource hungry earth.

Based on information from Deep Star Creations scout ships Gleso Industries quickly adopted the Arc-Light Projects Stellar Drive and began to equip vessels for large scale mining in the Kuiper Belt.

The first part of the project was to design and build habitation. They solicited Offworld First Colonies (OFC) to design the habitation while they began designing the mining rigs.

Everything had to be modular in design and mobile enough to travel between areas designated for mining.

The Kuiper belt was believed to hold only about 10 percent of the earth's mass in materials. While originally thought to be composed of ice bodies it appeared that most of them had cores of metal, many of them rare on earth.


It turns out the estimates were way off and the yield was closer to 26 percent!

This provided a bonanza as Gleso was able to harvest the gasses in ice form, harvest the water, then mine the cores.

The materials were sent back in large containers, much like with the asteroid mining, but there was no vessel attached. Instead, they were given a gentle nudge on a trajectory to intercept earth and a vessel would rendezvous with them between the orbits of Jupiter and Saturn where they would clamp on to the container and direct it into final position.

There were many objections to this technique; what if the vessel failed to rendezvous?, etc. but these were overcome by the Earth's need for resources. It is a testament to the science of the day that there was not one incident of a container colliding with Earth, the moon or any orbiting facility.

On the other end of the asteroid bonanza were the “dwarf planets” that were the largest bodies and rich in minerals and resources. Despite the objection of many groups, these planetoids were broken apart and harvested. The need for resources trumped nostalgia.

Just inside the Kuiper belt the moons of Neptune drew the attention of Gleso.
While harvesting the moons, Gleso looked at how to best begin the task of harvesting the gasses of Neptune.

About 450 years ago the first Gas mining facility was created in orbit around Neptune and gas mining took off.

The development of the Stellar Drive by Arc-Light Projects was a game changer. The engines were purchased and used in orbiting mining facilities to maintain stable orbits around Jupiter and Saturn.

Full scale mining of Saturn's rings began shortly after that.

Gleso began eyeing the sixty plus moons of Saturn and after lengthy arguments and legal battle is was determine that Titan, Iapetus, Phobe, Rhea, Dione and the other “spherical” moons were off limits, but the other “moons” were open for mining.

On Earth, Gleso was politically active and along with DarkLight Labs and OFC Technologies shaped a large portion of the policies governing the use and availability of resources on Earth. They also partnered with Offworld First Colonies in their early exploration of developing mining on Mars.

After discovery of the gates Gleso invested heavily in the newly formed Explorers League hoping to get a hold of information ahead of everyone else.

Gleso was one of the first commercial industries allowed through the gate.
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