[2020] so if DRG, Inc. has the tech to make autonomous BET-Cs and the tech to mine with Boscos... why exactly do dwarves need to risk their beards on Hoxxes IV?

• BET-C is smart enough to distinguish dwarves from bugs and only shoot bugs
• Bosco knows what ore looks like and how to mine it
• MULE can walk across any terrain and hold an unlimited amount of ore
• Mission Control has "sensors" that can pick up deposits of Morkite and Aquarqs from far away

Just saying, this entire operation would be WAY faster if it was robots from top to bottom. And no dwarves would have to die doing this EXTREMELY DEADLY job, as Mission Control loves to remind us... "Very few dwarves live to make it this far." And let's not forget about Karl. Can't leave a dwarf behind if you never bring a dwarf to begin with...

Hypothesis: DRG is a jobs program designed to be hazardous so that the galaxy's "unwanted" dwarves have somewhere highly lethal to go where they won't be missed...