Strip mining gravitational wells is a dumb thing anyway used for ali n invasion plot devices. There's probably plenty of resources for even extensive interstel

Strip mining gravitational wells is a dumb thing anyway used for ali n invasion plot devices. There's probably plenty of resources for even extensive interstellar civilizations in asteroids. Once you can cart around a solar system pretty easily, it's probably far less resource intensive to mine Asteroids and not have to deal with gravity wells, atmospheres, and chemically reactive environments. If you dropped in the solar system needing rare earths would you conquer humanity, extract the resources from our metal poor crust, and drag them up to orbit, or park your ship next to that asteroid with sixteen quintillion dollars of rare earths? Even mercury or a host of moons would be far easier.