Helium 3?

In Oceanum’s official canon, Helium-3 stands as the quiet cornerstone of humanity’s last great technological leap—made possible by Kaelen Collier, the brilliant scientist whose theories reshaped the future in the years before the Plague. Helium-3, a rare and non-radioactive isotope, was prized for its theoretical ability to power aneutronic fusion, producing immense energy with minimal radiation, negligible waste, and unprecedented efficiency. Collier recognized that such properties were essential for sustaining Pendragon, the SKY AI—an orbital intelligence whose continuous cognition, predictive modeling, and real-time tracking demanded stable, compact power beyond the limits of solar arrays or terrestrial reactors.

The Moon became central to Collier’s vision not as a colony, but as an archive of energy. Unshielded by atmosphere or magnetosphere, lunar regolith had accumulated Helium-3 for billions of years through constant exposure to the solar wind. Mining it was never about expansion, but endurance: securing a fuel capable of sustaining AI, propulsion, and space-based infrastructure for generations. In Oceanum’s records, the lunar Helium-3 program is remembered as Collier’s final act of foresight—unlocking the power that allowed Pendragon to identify, track, and eliminate orbital debris, safeguarding space travel from the cascading threat of humanity’s own abandoned satellites and launch fragments long before the Plague silenced the world that built it.