A mostly untamed planet such as Ocanon VI possessed a huge amount of biodiversity.
Billions of years of nearly untouched evolution had shaped the organisms on the planet in profound ways.
Though the human colonists who recently claimed this jewel discovered faded signs of prior alien visitations and occupations, the planet's critical lack of phasewater drastically lowered its worth among the native alien races.
Their neglect made sense in a time where the Red Ocean used to orbit around the Milky Way, but the Age of Dawn had completely upended the status quo.
Phasewater still remained valuable, but it was not as critical of a resource as before.
Humans and aliens could not have imagined that an ordinary life-bearing planet such as Ocanon VI could one day hold just as much value as a planet with a renewable phasewater deposit!
The rich and natural ecosystems of these virgins had turned into strategic resources overnight.
