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You give the order to build the second fleet, Beta Fleet, right away. The newfound Consortium Credit economy in the cluster is boosting production everywhere, but it's still not a guarantee they'll be ready in time for your next 5 year plan. In the meantime, you wonder what your Overseers are doing...
<span class="mu-s">Year 150 of the Resurrection Era</span>
After ten years of waiting, the shipment of raw materials in the form of asteroids have finally arrived in the new colonies from the Consortium. Despite having waited until the Consortium lowered their prices, and knowing they can be trustworthy when it comes to business deals; not to mention having just accepted the Consortium Credit as a currency in the new colonies; you find the shipment to be a tiny bit lacking.
“It seems the inside of the asteroids are less dense then the outside. The shipment will fill our Materials gauge by 1% less then expected, your Majesty.”
<span class="mu-b">”It seems you get what you put in. Capitalists don't care about efficacy, environmental impact, worker and consumer happiness, social ramifications of their goods and now not even the quality! At least the damn thing is on time. Wait, did you say less dense on the <span class="mu-i">inside</span>?”</span>
“Yes, your majesty. Which is quite unusual. Gravity would form natural satellites with more dense atoms near the center over time via accretion.”
<span class="mu-b">”Hold on... Threes, simulate a cloud of BAG being struck with high energy lasers or other devices. Is the result similar?”</span>
“Very, your Majesty. Excellent deductive skill.”
<span class="mu-b">”Well... this proves the Consortium has access to BAG. Seems a bit of a waste to mass produce rocks of basic resources, but I guess it'd be cheaper then mining them and having to deal with pollution on a planet or getting the materials out of a gravity well.”</span>
“With this; we now know the Esaal have access to Azurium and the Aristocrats have access to the Celestial Wine. It seems all of our galactic rivals have access to at least <span class="mu-i">one strategic resource</span> each, and will likely be interested in trading for the others for their resource of choice.”
<span class="mu-b">”We are quite fortunate we have access to all of them, but perhaps in lesser quantity then they do. That Esaal Azurium stockpile Cijan discovered still scares me.”</span>
“As it should, your Grace.”
