Over the last few years of my experience in being a Vanguard, I have witnessed the mining process of Mana Crystals multiple times.
I remembered how we first had to mine the crystals manually with literal pickaxes since we didn't know the properties of Mana Crystals yet but the moment we knew it was a new power source, they went all in on researching tech on how to automate the mining process.
They made mobile miners that were like giant drills and cutters on caterpillar threads and I would watch them cut away at the crystals to break them down before they get transported into trucks and carts to be brought out of the rift.
What I'm trying to say is… I'm quite familiar with how people from our world mine Mana Crystals.
But when it came to the Bunarfs…
I realised that I didn't really have a chance to see them in action before this.
The last time I went to their colony, their mining machines were all offline since they were planning to expand the tunnel that day.
