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You decide to <span class="mu-s">end the subculture</span>. Ultimately, it is a sex thing; a more private affair among your citizens, but still something that should be under the watchful eye of the Hegemony. Because while it can seem silly, it does change how people view the world, how they act, how they breed, and their relationships. Healthier relationships are always the goal of the Hegemony, as they tend to improve the valuable metrics for childrearing and socialization. While letting the subculture thrive to continue Jaxtian Supremacy, in truth, you just don't find cow women very attractive. Who wouldn't want a sleek Jaxtian girl?
The social weight has shifted.
>Jaxtian 40%
>Vetucker 30%
>Swall 30%
After your conquest and cleansing of the Hazaar Vassal States- several valuable artifacts and pieces of Hazaar technology were left behind. You've been cataloging and grabbing them ever since, but one has been of special interest to you when your own battle-fleet was stumped by it for years at a time. It was the only real piece of resistance the Hazaari could bring to bear against you; the <span class="mu-s">White & Black Spores</span>.
On the Hazaar homeworld, a special defense system came in the form of highly sophisticated biotechnology. Released naturally from the planet's flora, these spores floated into the atmosphere. There are two of them; the white spores are small, almost imperceptible even in great clouds, and can float into the upper stratosphere to touch orbiting ships and stations. Any ship will likely get a dusting of these white spores even with shields up as the spores just float right through. They latch onto atomic crystal structures, such as metals, and essentially leave "anchor" protiens and spurs into the material at weak points in the crystal structure. Harmless on their own, they can be washed off with some effort, but if you enter the lower atmosphere while the black spores are active...
The black spores seek out the white spores and, on contact, rapidly consume them in an explosive version of mycelium formation; crumbling and destroying whatever substrate they were formed in. This effectively <span class="mu-i">stopped</span> your invasion efforts despite your immense technological superiority over the Hazaar for a while until you found a counter: and would an effective way to defend your planets against enemy invasions, except for <span class="mu-i">Azurium</span> plated ships. The spores even become more powerful the more rich and healthy the planet's biosphere is, as they are created by mushrooms cultivated on the planets surface. The Hegemony's military and defense branches have been strongly considering ways to port this to other planet biospheres as a form of natural ecological defense.
