Alliance economic expansion has finally shown signs of slowing down. After the highly speculative investment in the systems of Hooriayan, Wolf 412 and MCC 684, these systems enjoy many new business opportunities. However, doubt about the soundness of the investment remains.
Yet there are silver linings for Edmund Mahon: The previously frosty relationship with key Imperial senators has thawed, with the Senate even dispatching a taskforce for joint strategic operations. Asked to comment on this recent change in Imperial policy, a spokesperson of the "Protectores Zemina Nostri" said:
"Within the Empire, Zemina Torval has always promoted the value of tradition, stability and peace. In the past, the Alliance was recognized as a threat due to border disputes. This stance was recently reevaluated by our strategists. Even if Mahon's academic vision depends on a vastly different societal model, he shares Senator Torval's goal in building lasting and functional societies.
"Where military competition is a wasteful way to resolve disputes, economic competition increases prosperity for both."
Commanders Gran Solo and Jemy Murphy
Allied News Service | Interstellar Press
