Absolutely, I enjoyed making a comment that generated some push back and I enjoyed defending my considered choice. My only mild disappointment is that while I

Absolutely, I enjoyed making a comment that generated some push back and I enjoyed defending my considered choice. My only mild disappointment is that while I opened the door by airquoting "mining" and drawing attention to an actual nation scale spice industry no one made comment on the "spice mining" in both Dune and in the Spice mines of Kessel being both the harvesting of a seasonally produced organic bloom. In Dune the spice harvesters surface scooped fresh blooms as they appeared from active worms, on Kessel I believe (I'm no authority here) they harvested old buried organics using mineral mining techniques rather than fresh cropping from a surface source. EDIT: It appears the Kessel spice may have been a mineral? .. https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Spice_mines_of_Kessel https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Spice_mines_of_Kessel TBH that's a rabbit hole of detail I'm happy to skirt.