An outwardly humble consultation effort by the Hankish to the Hearthfire terraformers is met with favour by the latter, though their recommendations dont receive much of a positive reaction in Hanksville. Perhaps encouraged by the success of talking and friendship in the Handmaidens subsector, the Hankish decided to extend the olive branch closer to home. Some paranoid parts of the Pentarchy mutter that the Hankish set this up deliberately to steal a march on them in SAH7 as part of a bid to control all commerce in the Handmaidens subsector, whilst others draw up plans for an expanded merchant shipping of their own, and the once jovial mood in SAH7 may have gotten just a little bit darker. On this last point however they have been stymied by the Hankish, who had allocated the entirety of the fleet running the GlonSigma Relay route to their own transport needs rather than the open market and the loan shipment is thus stuck in limbo for a year at Sigma Relay waiting for an open transport slot. To this end the Ilosians have been scrambling material and workers from across their widely spaced settlements to the ice giants orbit, and even taken out a considerable loan from the Pavonis Bank to finance it. If they have a pump and orbiting station already in place, the Delugers will surely have to tip their hats at losing a gentlemans game and settle for the slightly less valuable VIII. This prize, and the fact that several spectators speculate the Ilosians know more about the contents of IXs moons than theyre letting on, is driving the Ilosians to try and get a fiefdom set up before the Delugers arrive. Beyond its aesthetic appeal this ring of orbiting matter may in the distant future prove a valuable trove to mine for antimatter particle interactions. Whilst this might seem more than enough to go round, the outermost world of SAH7 IX is graced with a mighty swirl of hundreds of thick white and grey rings that put even ancient Saturn to shame. Now SAH7 has two ice giants orbiting a very large distance from the tiny sun, and each outwardly having the same composition and a small retinue of moons. Ilosians sales representatives had been in long discussion with the Dardareo worldship, and had dreams of fulfilling the potential wealth of manufactures that could be gained from supplying that politys massive resource needs, not to mention the massive social credit helping out such a large group of people would accrue. Speaking of the Ilosians, they have been galvanised by the (hardly secret) planned Hankish-Deluger to travel to SAH7, with the Hankish trade vessels already visiting that system. The few remaining critics point at the Ilosians bounding ahead in the friendly contest for SAH7, and urge a society wide discussion on how the Deluger society should be, and if a multi-system polity can be sustained in the same manner as they organise currently. Indeed it appears as if the Delugers are on the breaking cusp of some sort of boom period, held back only by the disorganised and ad hoc political system failing to efficiently move projects forward. The rest of the Deluger sphere is also buoyant with confidence, and ambitious industrial projects are being undertaken on the Unbreaking Wave itself, as well as a vast number of new and elegantly designed cities and workplaces. The Ecumenical Council has battened on the success of their diplomatic efforts and had entered a stage of magnanimous goodwill towards all its neighbours offering generous gifts to help paper over the sore spot with the miners of Blueside (though obviously not planning on giving their old world back), which are gladly received. Not that the Delugers are in any way a passive client of the Hankish, as they have been taking the lead in the volatiles project and certainly had a great deal of input into the Hankish-Deluger treat agreement, even exacting one of the prized Hankish cargo vessels as a symbol of good will. The target of their current cooperation seems to be harvesting one of the several ice giants that can be found orbiting the star SAH7, as the Hankish know that rich markets for volatiles exist back Spinwards, and the combination of the two nations expertise would surely yield great synergy.
The Hankish seem to be developing a closer relationship with the Order of the Deluge than with the Ilosians (a cynic would suggest that such a course is because of the Delugers naivety in the battlegrounds of the marketplace). In the new year the Handmaidens continues to be the main focus of the Hank-Sobor corporations expansion, as their finance experts begin to offer capital structuring to the somewhat unsophisticated inhabitants of the Glon system.
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