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After some brief deliberation with the Esaal women, you decide to make a counter offer for this mysterious ocean planet. Offering even more AI cores then before, you wonder if you've lowballed their offer before the commander smiles.
<span class="mu-r">”Oh wow! That's perfect. Ok, sounds good, thank you~”</span>
Quite surprisingly, the Esaal have given you a specific planet to fully utalize as you see fit, though it is in Esaal territory, a bit further from the border to be a single contiguous line. Regardless, you investigate the planet with your drones and probes to find it is... totally habitable? There is life on this planet. You're quite surprised, the fact it has a fossil record indicates that it had life on it once, but not necessarily today. And they're just... giving it to you? You suppose the Esaal don't value an ocean planet very highly, given they can't live on it themselves, but you find it surprising. The Consortium would have tried to trick you into buying a dying or inhospitable world you feel, but the Esaal are much more honest.
The ocean world, designated as <span class="mu-s">HBTP-OW1</span> is totally covered in water, meaning much of the planet has very low amounts of bioenergy, but some areas are in the shallows and fed by algae blooms, leading to diverse explosions of life and the possibility of artificial reefs or other structures. Not only that, but the water is oxygen rich enough to support Swall without even needing any filtering, and the planet is only a little cold to the tropical climate they prefer. It's basically a perfect world for the Hegemony to exploit.
