Essene miner
Career
Qualifications
Essene miners are typically born into the profession. By necessity, they become experts in meteorology, life support and heavy equipment maintenance, subsistence farming, and survivalism.
Career Progression
Miners typically start out doing basic equipment and vehicle maintenance. If they progress to management they will become shift leads and eventually operations managers. Otherwise they will specialize in mining operations, agriculture, meteorology, electronics, communications, life support, or scouting and become an expert in that field.
Payment & Reimbursement
The owners of Essene territory are paid well, but their high-tech nomadic lifestyle incurs lots of running costs. Their small profit margin does not allow them to pay their employees much. Most essene miners work simply to survive.
Perception
Purpose
Essene is a critical component of starship coolant systems.
Social Status
On Gamble, essene mining is the status quo lifestyle for most residents. The wealthiest and most powerful people on the planet are nomadic miners with wide strips of land. Throughout most of known space, mining is typically viewed as a low-quality profession.
Demographics
About 40% of the working population on Gamble are employed as essene miners.
History
The first essene miners settled at the poles of Gamble. As the demand for essene grew, miners spread farther away from the poles. Due to Gamble's extreme temperature differences between noon and midnight, these miners had to develop a nomadic lifestyle, always moving to stay within the twilight zone. The miners use floating collectors filled with spores to harvest essene from high atmospheric winds.
Operations
Tools
Essene miners use floating collecting bags filled with artificially-bred spores to extract essene from the atmosphere. They live and work in buses designed to support their nomadic lifestyle.
Alternative Names
Nomad
Type
Raw Materials Gathering
Demand
Essene is in high demand and only produced on a few planets
Famous in the Field
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