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<span class="mu-s">Year 42 of the Resurrection Era</span>
You are back to being <span class="mu-s"><span class="mu-i">Bantam Falathane</span></span> again, even though you wish you weren't. The truth is you are now straight up, flat out <span class="mu-i"><span class="mu-s">broke</span></span>.
It is unfortunate that the incident with the Starseers had to happen so early in your reign- and you didn't exactly inherit the most rich of empires in the first place. Wrix Val, your predecessor, drained much of the coffers to work on his own projects- namely the new <span class="mu-i">Stealth Cruiser</span> prototypes still in development. It was an expensive project. And then you decided to begin to weaponize your Starseers- a totally unexplored avenue of warfare and science- equally expensive. The surplus the Hegemony produces every year of careful budget balancing and economic growth was blown through too quickly.
Despite heading the great command economy, a far superior system to flawed capitalist thinking, money is still the fuel that drives the engine, and you're out. Even with the slight economic boost from your coronation speech in cultural production. It's a good thing you didn't choose robe colors meaning <span class="mu-i">Wisdom</span> or <span class="mu-i">Prosperity</span>- it would be even more of an embarrassment. Now you need to find a way to balance the budget and rule frugally for a few years...
<span class="mu-s">Vote for one option. No write-ins are allowed.</span>
>Biocube Rationing (Health & Happiness down)
>Pause Research (Science delayed significantly)
>Security downsizing (Chance of negative event)
>Humility among the Elite (Lessens Hierarchy & Prestige)
>Take out a Loan (Specify faction)
>Cull undesirables (Atrocity)
