ah, thank you!! :)
i did the assets mostly so i miiight be jumping the gun trying to explain mechanics but the original idea was that the further out you went from the Big Turtle, the more resources the planets dropped when you mined them (and the higher the population you had, the quicker the mining laser worked, so it was kind of an easier way to get more resources later in the game compared to flying around) - time got away from us when it came to putting it in visually with bigger planets further out so it's not very clear :")