Operation and Significance
Around 2400, hundreds of millions of mining drones were sent into Saturnian orbit during Operation Locust Crossing. Saturn’s rings supplied water, hydrogen, oxygen, shielding material, and reaction mass, while metals were imported from asteroids, moon cores, and Mercury’s mining zones. Together these material flows supported construction of the Circum-Jovian Accelerator.
Sources
Volume III, “Brute-Forcing the Laws of Physics (The Circum-Jovian Accelerator)”