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Early experiments show that directed energy bursts and hypertronic controls can also change how the BAG produces mass; more energy in a shorter span produces heavier elements- hence the planet “spontaneously generating” heavy metals in the bodies of the poor astronauts. It also explains why you never found it before- this type of exotic matter <span class="mu-s"><span class="mu-i">will only be found in exoplanets</span></span> or far away from stars- as in the “very short time of a few thousand years” all of the gas will have been used up. You can already hear the drooling mouths of scientists and engineers wanting to be the first to create matter fabricators- but there's a bit of a problem.
You do not have anyway near the budget for that kind of thing.
After spending a huge amount of money to produce your first Crusiers and the Baalathi projects on Nan and in Max, AND your production of new spacesuits and other technology upgrades- has drained your coffers to the point of only maintenance being possible until you can recoup some of the costs from these investments. Even the massive Nan shipyards will take more time then this to pay off the costs of hauling so much Azurium to them for their construction.
Of course, you can't just let a scientific discovery of this magnitude go by without further investigation and investment. Something will have to be cut. Whose or what departments are you going to cut?
>Temporarily put the populace on Biocube rationing (Unpopular)
>Cut Tetak's funding of his personal projects
>Reduce Hwat's civil defense and Enforcer funding
>Stop building Cruisers for the time and weaken your military to pursue this discovery
>Other? (Write In)
