Precious Metal

Precious Metal "Precious metals" was always a uniquely human conceit, anyway. Gold? Even after all of the mining thats been done in human history, theres still tens of exagrams of it on Earth alone. Once your civilization moves into space, theres even more of it to be had. Its not particularly rare, in the grand scheme of things. But, it turns out nobody but us humans really cares about gold, silver, platinum, palladium, or any of the other metals we call "precious," except inasmuch as they are ...