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blockquote class="messageText SelectQuoteContainer ugc baseHtml" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding: 0px; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.7;"span style="margin-top: 0px; font-size: 22px;"strongEntry Thirty-One – Days after Geonosis, One Hundred Seventy-Five/strong/spanbr /Unlike the Senate, the Municipal Authority cannot simply ignore millions of internally displaced citizens, not when the problem spreads throughout the underworld and creeps all the way upward into the underdeveloped sections of Galactic City. The Bucket may have rioted the hardest, but there was widespread unrest on every level. The bureaucracy struggles with the task of managing an ever-expanding number of homeless people. The official estimate for the Phase One plan is that nearly two billion person-units worth of housing will be erased by redevelopment, but this number does not include any of the territory currently occupied by unofficial housing or true squatters in non-residential environments. The reality is likely double the estimate. To the Senate that is merely a number, but down here the problem takes on a tangible /br /In desperation, the Municipal Authority has partnered with the GAR Logistical Corps and hacked together an emergency relocation plan. Huge numbers of people will be transported, at government expense, to priority resettlement zones. I had Tesso analyze the plan for me, I've been too busy treating smoke inhalation cases with exotic breathing apparatus to study such materials. He says that most of these resettlement locations are off-world, mostly on industrially or strategically important planets liberated from the Separatists. The actual purpose is quite clear. This is no charitable enterprise. It is a back-door draft measure to acquire industrial labor to support the war /br /This plan discomforts me, and not simply due to the questionable ethics of the policy. Sending individuals to live on new biospheres is always risky, and most of the underworld's residents have not lived one second of their lives surrounded by a functional ecology. Many are shockingly unaware of basic concepts like forests or grasslands. Even without considering the inevitable local resistance to this maneuver this plan presents serious /br /Then there is the question of what happens when the war comes to an end. Weapons production and fortification development are certainly active industries now, but what happens when peace returns? Will all these people be stranded on dying worlds?br /br /Discussion among my patients suggests little appetite for this plan. The people of the Bucket view this artificial realm of yellow durasteel as their home, and call themselves Coruscanti. Their idea of upward mobility is startlingly literal. They dream of moving upwards, one level at a time, never of leaving the planet. Most among them have never seen the stars – even from the lower portions of Galactic City they are not visible – and have only an abstract conception of the existence of other planets. I have, by myself, visited more worlds than whole communities of /br /The Municipal Authority will gather up only the utterly desperate and totally broken. The rest will evade this offer and instead burrow deeper into the cracks and crevices of the underworld and wait for a day of improvement that never comes. It will take blasters and binders to haul them out. I hope it does not come to /br /Somehow I must find a way to improve conditions down here. A vaccine remains my best hope, but perhaps there is something else. I have set Tesso to building a database of medical needs compared against treatment costs. Perhaps it will crack open some unexpected /br /Maybe, maybe, when this development plan completes, things will change for the better as we all hoped. Morne says the utility boards are seeking a massive increase in inspectors, to insure this new work is tied to long-term improvements in core infrastructure. That seems a good idea. I do not trust these megacorporations and their contractors, not anymore. Of course, such hopes are thin. I do not think they have enough money either. It seems that is always the case. Force send another path /br /span style="font-size: 18px;"strongNotes/strong/spanbr /With regard to Nema's travel estimate, it is my general viewpoint that the bulk of the GFFA populace is simply not very mobile. Space travel is a privilege of the rich or a duty of the military and the merchant marine and most people never leave their home planets save due to massive upheaval.
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