Myths of our Solar System (25): Pluto, underground man

As he stood, rising to his feet, his eyes wide, his cheeks covered with dry mud and with
rocks in his hands, Pluto turned his mind first to fresh water, the old wells having emptied
and collapsed in on themselves. He quickly set about using the skills Mother Earth had
given to him as he lay listening and he wandered out to find pockets of water in the rock
between the earth and the Underearth; and to the First People he brought knowledge of
divining and well digging, ideas he would spread throughout This World.

Pluto then travelled This World conducting his own research of that rock beneath Mother
Earth, as she had asked him to do. He found many resources (some for now, some to be
discovered later) to tell This World’s inhabitants about.

But first the war came and Pluto was forced to introduce mining as a tactic, digging tunnels
under the enemy’s positions and using the explosives Mars made to destroy them from
beneath.

After the victory, Pluto and his Mining Platoon took the people underground and they
mined for tin, copper, coal and iron. Together they passed on knowledge of digging and
props and removing spoil and goods alike as well as dealing with flooding and other
dangers.

And out of the mines This World began to flourish into one of commerce- each town
producing its own goods to trade with others.