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* Extracting: If you are building a extraction-planet, you mine the resources from the planet with extractors, usually refine the extracted materials to some degree and export them up from the planetary surface into space. Follow [[Setting up a planetary colony#Step 2.1: Extract resources|Step 2.1]] for building a extraction planet | * Extracting: If you are building a extraction-planet, you mine the resources from the planet with extractors, usually refine the extracted materials to some degree and export them up from the planetary surface into space. Follow [[Setting up a planetary colony#Step 2.1: Extract resources|Step 2.1]] for building a extraction planet | ||
* Importing: If you are building a factory-planet, you import | * Importing: If you are building a factory-planet, you import some of these resources from space back onto the surface, refine it with processors to one or more higher grade materials and export them up again into space. Follow [[Setting up a planetary colony#Step 2.2: Import resources|Step 2.2]] for building a factory planet | ||
There are hybrid configuration, that use both methods, but in most cases it is more efficient to do one or the other. | There are hybrid configuration, that use both methods, but in most cases it is more efficient to do one or the other. | ||