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You chide Fim for going along with this trend, and quickly make efforts to ban it. You are tempted to hand out harsh punishments to those who did it in the first place, but better keep morale high and let people learn by good example.
Sadly, you aren't exactly sure what to replace it with. You were never a cultural expert, and with Yino Val, your civilization's previous master of art and culture, now passed on from old age- you don't have much else to replace him with.
<span class="mu-s">Year 137 of the Resurrection Era</span>
Your AI informs you of the progress being made in the new colonies; including your highly successful mineral deposits. It seems the Hazaar, for all their cleverness and capitalist waste, still didn't reach the deepest mineral reserves on their planets and moons. More interestingly, it tells you of a possible choice.
"My Liege. Your mineral gauge will reach <span class="mu-s">20%</span> for your next 5 year marker, which is enough material to <span class="mu-s">commission a fleet</span>. Fleets are the workhorses of the empire; while primarily designed as military units, each fleet also has an array of cargo ships, support units, medical equipment, tractor beams, and fusion cores which can all be used to help aide civilian development. Each fleet can be used to aide in construction or resource acquisition, letting them be assigned to <span class="mu-s">raise any gauge by 5% over a 5 year period</span> of time. Additionally, fleets can also be used to transport colonists directly, increasing your Habitation Progress by +1% over a five year period as well, or can be sent away on defense missions, if needed."
<span class="mu-b">"Still, 20% materials is a massive amount of resources."</span>
"Indeed. Huge amounts of metals, rare silicates, fusion materials, antimatter containment units, natural oils for synthetic polymers... all things equally useful for the growing and building colonies. If you build a fleet, all 20% will be set aside at once, so your colonies may be resource starved for a time until they can recoup the loss, or you can regain it from the Fleet's own workload. Like all things, master, it is a choice with a cost and benefit..."
