Department+of+Interplanetary+Resources

Stats
ECON: 120 MIL: I ESP: E ESP: RES:

R EXT: 60 R USE: R Stock:

Assets
Solar arrays 20 R Ext (20 econ) NEA Mining 20 R Ext (5 econ) Core Mining 20 R Ext (15 econ)

DIR EoT 1


 * Department of Interplanetary Resources**

**Response**
Your efforts to help New Haven are successful. The Bureau of Technology has successfully isolated the fungus and figured out how to contain or destroy it.

The new solar arrays are helping provide more power. You gain 20 resource extraction. However the analysts report that such a massive infusion into the satellite industry has had negative effects. Many contractors have seized on the opportunity to siphon away money by overbidding. The job got done, but a substantially higher cost than was actually necessary. And even the resources that did go into the project ran into the simple fact that there are only so many workers skilled at this sort of industry.The project will likely continue into next year before even the current order has been completed.

(Just to be clear there wasn't anything illegal going on. You just overpaid the contractors and satellite companies massively.)

Meanwhile the new asteroid initiatives are being pursued (I don't know where you got that the NEAs were one of the Earth's primary source of resources.) They are quite successful and the nearby asteroids are providing larges quantities of resources for the factories of Earth. You gain 20 R Ext.

Your efforts at improving the output of the Borehole mines has also shown fruit as several new boreholes have been drilled. For the first time in decades Earth is starting to produce resources on its own. Although there are fears that there is only so much that can be mined before it begins to actually undermine the cities that span every continent. You gain 20 R Ext.