A good deal of the mining was done by Mining Ships, which were armed with Mining Lasers, and a system of Tensor Beams that pulled in the resources into the large containers that the ship pulled underneath it. When a Ship's Container was full it took its container to a Resource Controller. When a Controller had a full load of Containers it generally moved to the Orbiting Gehenna Base until a full convoy was ready to be escorted to Anothelis.