Vicerite has no market value

[Sam Guivene]

In addition I've also noticed ice is a thing now and that too has no market value, I'd imagine in space liquid water, or a component to its production, has some kind of significant space value

well i mean they can just dispense an infinite amount of water from the chem dispensers

I'd assume that the chemistry dispensers we have are relatively expensive technology, and probably aren't standard everywhere, also I'm going to pull up EVE logic in that heavy water is a valuable thing for usage in reactors and such, and asteroid space ice is a good source of it.