Etherstone was originally considered to be border waste rock. It was buried in the edge of the abandoned starfield. It has no features on the surface. It is often mixed with waste ore and abandoned as useless gravel.
In Star Yuan 3259, Professor Lu Xi discovered during an accidental exploration that a piece of residual rock produced an extremely strong energy pulse under high-frequency resonance. In subsequent experiments, he extracted a rare energy structure that can be used for deep space communication and thought induction. She named it the Aetherstone, referring to its rarity.
After the news came out, the border mining area was instantly boiling. Prices in waste rockyards have increased dozens of times, and many old stars that were originally uninterested have been snapped up. In just one year, cornerstones that were once worth only a few credits were sold on the black market to hundreds of thousands of credits.
But after the craze, people discovered that the occurrence rate of ether stone is extremely low. Only about every 80 million planets may contain a real ether stone. And there is no scientific method to distinguish its authenticity without purification.
Even so, there are still countless people with the expectation of gambling, spending money on the deserted starfields, and going to the edge planets to build simple mining stations, just for the slim chance of winning the grand prize.
In Star Year 3768, Professor Luchino unearthed a mineral similar to ether stone on an edge planet in the abandoned star belt.
Like his ancestor Lu Xi, Professor Luchino also gave this mineral a name - Fool's Gold, which means dusty treasure.
Concept: dusty treasure