Mining a Sphere World

[Fyron]

bbq said:
I think the problem with the logic of getting resources from the sun is that if you can do that then all the mineral Ratings for all the planets become sorta meaningless since it becomes the sun's rating, not the planets.

The planet's value is meaningless for the Crystalline race's solar resource generator. For the RW/SW, it is based directly on the star, so the value could be said to be the value of the energy/materials being projected off of the star. The amount of material from the star that reaches the planets is very low, considering that it is more or less evenly distributed over a spherical area. But a RW/SW is capable of trapping a lot of it, seeing as it is so close to the star and completely encircles it (as a ring or a sphere). With a stretch of the imagination, it works out.