I guess this is a step forward. Liberals used to support evil in reality, like the Iraq war, but then they would use fantasy to virtue signal that they are actually the good guys by not supporting the Empire in Star Wars or something like that.
Not anymore! Now they are just like "kill kill kill"
Wtf were they mining in that movie anyway? What were the humans using it for?
It's just an ambiguous standin for any resource that countries colonize others for.
Space oil. They it is called unobtainaium it is an old sci-fi joke about a resource that does whatever the plot needs it to do. It is functionally a material that breaks gravity so you can do fun physics tricks that we cannot do in real life.
Somewhere in the lore, it was a room temperature super conductor, which was also their explanation for floating mountains. Somehow didn't induce currents in everything around them (except "instruments ")
I’m pretty sure it was a super conductor.
I think it was because it was expensive, therefore they wanted to sell lots of it