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After much thought, you decide to okay the project. With only minor gains to be made for your space-fleet with the Azurium, expanding your power base and creating a truly impressive work of engineering would be more valuable to leave behind to the future of the Hegemony...
<span class="mu-r">”Alright Mann, I've thought it over. I give you full permission to do the project. Don't go overbudget and don't waste my time. The Azurium is yours. Don't disappoint me.”</span>
<span class="mu-b">”Yes, I will do you proud!”</span>
With that, a mass of ships and workers begin to flow to the Swalli system; great work undergoes the planet. In just a few short years; the planet's islands and landmasses are destroyed and sunk into the ocean, the ice caps are melted, and all of the Swalli's complex life forms; the dreaded Zharks, the rare and valuable corals, and the deep sea and fish go extinct. Your scientists make sure to take stock of all of the extant populations genetic data and samples; there will be no more from this point on- a loss of an alien ecosystem in exchange for a grand construction.
The Great City will of course take a very long time to build- and it will not be finished all at once. As of now, Mann is dedicating the rest of his career and possibly a successor to finish it, but it's the kind of challenge he's been waiting for. Even now, only the foundations of what will one day be your races first ecumenopolis are built out of super durable and dense materials- but even now, the oceanic pressures on these are too great to continue without richer materials. The <span class="mu-i"><span class="mu-s">Azurium</span></span> will be needed. Right underneath the Consortium's nose; you've stolen a natural cache of the stuff, begun to mine and refine it, and send it off for shipping across the entire empire...
