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<span class="mu-s">Year 113 of the Resurrection Era</span>
This did not work out as planned.
Over the past 3 years, you have been searching the Hazaar systems for suitable worlds for your Migrator population; who are otherwise locked to a single planet, though a decent number more live in captivity in special chilled tanks around the Hegemony. There are actually a few possibilities but...
"My Lord, the economic reports. Things are not looking good."
<span class="mu-g">"...Dammit. I didn't mean for this to happen. I guess I got sidetracked on a personal project. This isn't the first time. I'll have to expunge some more resources from my personal account, and try to correct this..."</span>
"Lord Supreme Hass Takar, I am sorry to say this, but that will not suffice this time."
The <span class="mu-s">Hegemony</span> economy is based on planned and centralized industry. As the state produces all goods, creates and manages all the business, prints the money, and to an extent controls the demand of goods; a careful balance is required to avoid economic collapse. The Hegemony can create long term expensive projects and lofty but low-return investments like scientific research and ecological protection because of its control over its own industry. However, even with your state control, enough mismanagement can still upturn the system. Every printed Danbo Mark and begun project and day of vacation awarded to workers is done with the full promise of the economy being bigger in the future through its growth and mechanisms. While the intentional market manipulations of the degenerate capitalist past are long gone; mass inflation, supply line shortages, a lack of qualified workforce, or expenditure of resources the Hegemony's otherwise perfect system of industry can eventually collapse.
Because you decided to focus your expansion on something with <span class="mu-s">no immediate benefit</span>, you have left a gap in the Hegemony's predicted and planned growth. Without a surplus to fall back on due to your previous expensive project, not to mention the inclusion and retraining of millions of new alien minority citizens, you've reached the breaking point. Over the next few years, the Hegemony will experience a massive economic downturn which now cannot be fixed through investments. The unclaimed lands in the Hazaar space were going to be your big investment as a way to stabilize, but now something will have to be given up...