Planet cracking (Earth-2124)

Planet cracking is a term to describe the literal cracking of a planet for mining valuable resources. During it, a large section is broken through the use of gravity tethers, with it being brought inside a planet cracker, ships specifically built for such tasks. Through UEG history, most planet cracking operations occur across the Outer Colonies, and most are met with overwhelming success, despite its slow rate. Because of the sensible nature of these operations, planet cracking must be performed with heavy security and oversight, as the least ammount of damage could cause an entire atmosphere, gravity and geology to become disrupted.

History
The Concordance Extraction Corporation is the oldest company to begin planet cracking operations, and the one that has been the most able to consistently excel at it. The Ishimura was one of the oldest of planet crackers.

In 2410, a mining operation on Wanat led to the deaths of hundreds of miners duo to a failure with the gravity tethers. Ever since, the CEC works closely with manufacturers and mining crews in order to ensure another disaster occurs ever again. After the Ishimura's fiasco, planet crackers became rarer, and a large ammount of unemployment grew in the CEC.