Originally Posted by
Kalyyn
You'd need to build drilling ships capable of fighting those things, and find crews willing to man them. On the upside, in addition to the oil you drilled, you'd also be able to process more oil from the corpses of the ones you killed.
And you wouldn't even have to worry about over-fishing them. Because honestly, who's going to complain if something like that goes extinct?
Still, one of my biggest fears as a space explorer would be finding myself in the wrong scene of a Starship Troopers re-enactment...