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Throughout your reign, many things have happened and changed, and many advancements have been made. You made a vow to colonize your local cluster, and thus far you are almost there- only two unexplored star systems remain. Since both are about a year away or more even with your fastest hyperdrives and migrator-navigator setups; you have the ships sent out as soon as you are able to do so. You have also just turned <span class="mu-s">sixty years old</span>.
Incredible to think that, in the day your DNA was first conceived, that was near the life expectancy of the average Jaxtian. Now, you are over halfway through your life. Eoba the first lived to the ripe old <span class="mu-i">age of 113</span>, which is probably how old you'll live too. It's time to take stock of the Hegemony.
Your current long term empire project is the creation of a <span class="mu-s"><span class="mu-i">Threemind</span></span>. Progress under the watchful eye of <span class="mu-s">Galyo Qint</span> and other geniuses of the Hegemony, divided up among three totally incompatible computer disciplines, mean that this new computer system will be solving all of your computer problems for the far and foreseeable future.
You have <span class="mu-i">fixed</span> the food crisis and removed your reliance on biocubes. In the meantime, Andoen I and Xin I are slowly being colonized and built up- with Xin-I also being terraformed and inhabited by a large number of Blue Haazar. Vetuck II is not yet colonized as the Vetuck aliens expand across the planet underneath your own ideological goal. Your vassal in the form of King Aok has long since died, but his descendants continue your mission of purging the more religious kingdoms from the planet underneath the Hegemony's banner. Though to them, it's little more then an idea.
Another factor- the rogue exoplanet named <span class="mu-i"><span class="mu-s">Talacenti</span></span>. Discovered by your predecessor in far and cold orbit around your star, a very slow project to move that planet into your own solar system to twin its orbit with Schoon and gain access to its space and minerals is still underway. All safety checks confirm that the old corrupted Alavis never gained access to the planetoid. It will probably be after your reign, and after you die, that this rogue planet reaches your star system.
As for your own society- the culture of the Hegemony seems very intact and unified- possibly due to the great rate of expansion and colonization. The only big thing on the horizon is the works of <span class="mu-s">Yaun'Tul Scholiander</span>, a State-Philosopher that will release three great works of thought and political analysis in the Hegemony at some distant later date.
Underneath all of this, you think back on how you got here. The truth is, you know that something fundamental about the <span class="mu-i">succession of the Supreme Ruler may need to change</span>. That is something you will need to grapple with... when it is time for your succession. But it is not yet that time.
