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In the many years since the original invasion and destruction of the <span class="mu-i">Swall</span>- the intelligent fish-man species who lived on their aquatic planet within the Hegemony's space; the planet was in many lefts a ghost town. The cities were flattened, bunkers busted, and infrastructure destroyed in the cleansing. Over the past 20 years or so, the world has been left to heal somewhat by the Hegemonic authority. The Swall were amphibious, so simply stealing their buildings and infrastructure wasn't an option. Already, the planet's biosphere shows great signs of recovery as their resident intelligent species no longer exist to leech off it and pollute it.
But now; comes the question of what <span class="mu-i">next</span>.
Your infrastructure Overseer, Mann Yumm, is too tepid to dare make such a large decision without your imput.
<span class="mu-b">”The planet has value, as any life sustaining world does, my lordship. But I have some concerns about colonization-”</span>
<span class="mu-r">”Do not bother me with triffles, Mann.”</span>
<span class="mu-b">”Eep! No Sir- it's not that. I simply am not sure how to maximize our newly gained planet...”</span>
<span class="mu-r">”Why are you my <span class="mu-i">overseer</span> then? Why are you having difficulties with this?”</span>
<span class="mu-b">”The planet is... depleted. Much like Jaxt itself when it entered the space age- why finding nuclear materials and building the industrial base on Schoon was important to earlier Supreme Rulers. Swallia was the home of a world-spanning, industrialized society with billions of members. They were even restricted on their world past the point when they could have begun moving into space. All of the near sea-floor metallic deposits have already been mined. Nuclear materials are nearly exhausted. Lithium is nonexistent- the most common crime on the planet pre-invasion was actually stealing batteries for that reason! The Swall did a good job at trying to perserve the natural world with “responsible capitalism”, but with any conflict of interest the natural world and animal life will be the first on the chopping block. It was impossible for them to clean up all the microplastics even after they invented non-shedding plastic alternatives, like us.”</span>
<span class="mu-r">”I see.”</span>
<span class="mu-b">”But the main reason I came to you was to ask for your permission to do something <span class="mu-i">radical</span>.”</span>
