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Wait so a super technologically advanced life form that is able to travel through the universe easily doesn't have the knowledge to create technology that can mine for gold on a different planet? That instead they need slaves?
I mean if you are going to go down this crazy route at least make it more plausible!
They didn't even have to come to a populated planet if they wanted to get gold out of the solar system. And unlike us humans in the article, they presumably don't have to worry about devaluation.
https://www.space.com/psyche-metal-asteroid-composition
Also with differentiated asteroids like Vesta, Ceres (and maybe Psyche) they're entirely cold. So rather than scrabbling around for the flecks of gold on the surface like on Earth, you can just tunnel down into the core and mine all the heavy metals that sunk during the planetoid's molten era.