>>5449091Oh goodie, sector politics. Yay.
Separating the easiest one from the others, it's obvious we'll be doing both for the Police Force. Starting with employing only Loyalists to bring order swiftly, we'll recruit screened locals to begin training as soon as possible. Afterwards comes a period of joint peacekeeping where both forces oversee law enforcement until there are enough trusted locals fully trained and on station to allow us to slowly withdraw our own police forces, eventually leaving it all in hand of the locals.
>[Police Force]>Employ Loyalists at first, then slowly train and replace our deployed forces with Local assetsThe other two problems aren't as clear cut, and whatever choice we make in Problem #3 will affect which choice we should make in Problem #2 (we wouldn't want to build Local Industry if we're planning on relinquishing control for example).
Personally I want to throw Alexander a bone here and (eventually) hand the planet back over to him entirely, mostly because we need him to properly navigate the Administratum and to pull the right strings to ensure we're not going to get bleed dry of resources. If he has to burn a lot of his favours and pull many of his strings trying to maintain as large a share of the minerals on his side of the planet as possible, he's not going to have much left to share with us afterwards so finding a solution where he has to do the least greasing in the Administratum on this issue is paramount for us.
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>>5449100 suggestion of a Colony Administration, followed by a transitionary period where it eventually returns back to Alexanders control seems a good middle ground, thought it shouldn't be for generations but until we've finished training the local police force instead. This would let us extract minerals until such times when we've begun large scale mining operations on other worlds to make up for the loss of Hyddrit Delta.
Important to note is that a promise to return the world fully to Alexanders control in the future does little to help his bargaining position with the Administratum right now. Some other form of compensation to House Gildenmar might be necessary if we want Alexander to hold back on using his favors on himself. I'll have to sleep on this and see if I have any smarts in me when I wake up.
Hyddrit Delta is no longer as important as it was in Thread #2, when we thought it the only mining world we'd have access to for a long while. We have Iapetus-I in our own system ready for exploitation and an agreement with the Astral Claws that gives us mining rights in Badab and across the Maelstrom Zone. Delta will serve well as a good stopgap measure, but after we've established our own mining worlds it's not the end of the world to hand it back to Alexander, especially since it buys us some extra good-will and further cements the good relations between Svartalfheim and House Gildenmar.