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#A FRACKED PLANET CRACKED#
#A FRACKED PLANET CRACK#

By 2019, natural gas had overtaken both and was by far the top energy source in America.īut from the beginning, there was a big climate issue with fracking for natural gas as a bridge fuel: methane. Just 15 years ago, natural gas was the number three energy source in the US, narrowly trailing nuclear but well behind coal. This idea certainly made for good business. This idea of natural gas as a bridge fuel was pretty simple on the surface: these big companies said natural gas produces lower carbon emissions than coal and was more readily available than renewables like wind and solar energy, making it a supposedly sensible option for the country and our planet while we worked to ramp up use of clean energy sources.

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Two other unidentified CEC Planet Cracker-class ships.For years, energy companies have claimed that natural gas obtained through fracking was a cleaner alternative to coal.

Unidentified CEC Planet Cracker-class ship, destroyed by gravity tether failure in the Wanat Disaster in 2497.

Whether or not this is what happened with the Wanat Disaster is uncertain but entirely possible. The damage can range from wiping out all life on the planet and rendering it uninhabitable to even potentially causing its complete destruction and destroying anything in its area. Should enough of the gravity tethers installed on the colony fail, or if the ship in orbit suffers failures in its own tether system or comes unable to maintain altitude, the massive piece of harvest rock it is carrying can make planetfall and cause catastrophic damage. Once a planetary body has been sufficiently mined away, the gravity of an entire area of space can be affected, potentially disrupting an entire solar system. It is implied that planet cracking operations are potentially very destructive, as it can result in significant disruptions of the planet's gravity and geology, possibly rendering it uninhabitable. The decommissioning and eventual destruction of the Ishimura, as well as the publicized disaster of Aegis VII, caused planet cracking to lose its credibility as a business. As a result, unemployment numbers in the CEC grew drastically. After an EMP blast from the Marker shut down several important gravity tethers holding up the piece of extracted rock, it fell back down onto the planet, wiping out the infestation and all but destroying the planet, which was left unstable and exploded some time later. An outbreak of Necromorphs resulting from the discovery of a Red Marker on the planet's surface (and being subsequently brought onboard the ship itself) killed nearly everyone on the ship and the colony with only a handful of survivors.

#A FRACKED PLANET CRACK#

The Ishimura herself was dispatched to carry out an illegal mining operation in the Cygnus system, establishing a colony on Aegis VII where a single planet crack was carried out. Since that time, the CEC worked closely with the manufacturers and held crew training lectures to ensure that a disaster of this magnitude never happened again.īy the time of the Aegis VII disaster, the CEC owned at least five Planet Crackers. The remains of the moon would form the basis of Titan Station.Įleven years prior to the disastrous events at Aegis VII, a mining operation accident known as the "Wanat Disaster" resulted in a planet cracker, three supply ships and the colony lost due to gravity tether failure.

#A FRACKED PLANET CRACKED#

The first planet cracking operation was successfully completed in Earth's solar system on Titan, one of Saturn's moons, which was repeatedly cracked and mined until it was almost entirely gone.

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The first planet crack carried out on an unmined planet was known as "popping the cork." Over the history of the CEC's planet cracking endeavors, only one operation of three dozen met with less than optimal results. The mining vessels used gravity tethers to pull massive sections of the planet up to be processed from within the vessel's mining deck. The USG Ishimura, owned by the Concordance Extraction Corporation, was the oldest and consistently largest of the planet crackers. Once ready, tethers onboard the colony and a Planet Cracker-class ship in orbit were used to break off the massive piece which was hauled into space and brought inside the ship, where it was stripped and its ore content was studied. Once this was done, a colony was established in a ring-like shape around a site about a kilometer across, and power gravity tethers were built while mining operations were carried out to carve around the planet piece to be removed. The first step of planet cracking was determining a planet rich with the desired minerals and ores via extensive surveying.

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