Maybe it was the sunk cost but you decided that you needed to sell some frigates. The problem was you had no idea how to sell such unconventional designs… but Jack did.
One cringey holo-ad and a business trip (which Jack would not have survived if it weren’t the body guards Farron sent with him) later and you started getting orders.
>Received orders for two Thunderbirds and two Excelsis>Filling Orders for Thunderbirds>2x Thunderbirds Construction Costs: 24kT CM, 6kT RM, 1kt EM>1kT EM bought for 4Mil Solar Credits>2x Thunderbirds sold for 19.76 Mill Saurain Scrip>Final Material Storage: 42kT CM, 6kT RM>Final Balance: 9.2 Mil Solar Credits, 19.76 Mill Saurain ScripHalfway through the frigate orders another problem reared its head; organised gangs were starting to form among the penal labourers. Your house troops enforced a brutal order among the prisoners but they had slowly learned just how far they could push the boundaries without bringing down their wrath.
Corruption was starting to spread to your regular workers as well. An internal black market was forming where the prisoners bribed and coerced them for favours and trinkets. Every time illicit activity was reported there was no evidence to be found. Shortly after the accuser would suffer some kind of misfortune; sabotaged work setting them behind their targets, or even an “accident”. It had gotten so bad that the regular workers now outright refused to work on the same projects as the penal labourers. Morale was plummeting and if not addressed <span class="mu-s">the situation might deteriorate.</span>
>What do?>Fuck it! Just shoot them all, they’re more trouble than they’re worth and they have no rights.>Do nothing, the service period has almost expired, soon they won't be your problem anymore.>Intensify segregation of penal and regular labour. Convoluted scheduling will disrupt further gang activity but increase construction time of all ships by 1 period until the prisoners are transferred out.>Counter-corruption; put some of the prisoners in your pocket and allow them to take over the black market. <span class="mu-r">Option unavailable, requires Intelligence Department</span>The only person who didn’t seem to be having trouble was Glasner, sequestered as he was in the research module. He had recently unveiled a set of prototype fusion reactors that were overall more compact and efficient than existing models.
>Refined Fusion Power tech gained.>Vote for next tech research (see >>6130754) 