Beyond the possibility of using it for food, there is water, metals, raw materials like gems, chemicals or plants that could be turned to chemicals, stone...
[ He ticked them off his fingers one after the other, after the other. Unlike Atsumu, Silco did know what was required for industry. Not only was he an industrialist, but he'd worked the mines as a boy, and he knew what his betters had valued -- all the easier to smuggle with, in his early days -- and he could see the potential in this. ]
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Beyond the possibility of using it for food, there is water, metals, raw materials like gems, chemicals or plants that could be turned to chemicals, stone...
[ He ticked them off his fingers one after the other, after the other. Unlike Atsumu, Silco did know what was required for industry. Not only was he an industrialist, but he'd worked the mines as a boy, and he knew what his betters had valued -- all the easier to smuggle with, in his early days -- and he could see the potential in this. ]