"We ran the numbers, and determined that pre-incorporation, the rate that Libertonian companies were starting their first planetside branches on Erie was easily a tenth of what it is now. The previous administration had a lot of their own infrastructure in place already, but it could've taken something like, seventy or eighty years to get the level of services and industry you'd find on Denver at the rate local charters were being handed out.

You compare that to now, we can manage the same thing in ten, maybe twelve years. Clearly, that's good for everyone."

"Cleanup is proceeding a little slower than we'd hoped. The enemy has shown resilience in dealing with our air power due to what we suspect is foreign supply, and leverages the ability to disperse into civilian terrain with rural support. The way our initial landings were uncontested, that preserved a lot of their fighting capacity to play the game on their terms instead of ours. So those are the strengths we're targeting, getting our troops and armor right in there with the enemy and rooting out their supporters in the farmland and the isolated settlements. Those're the places keeping them going.

There's a whole lot of ground to cover, but we're confident in the superior espirit-de-corps and technology of our Marines.

I cannot, however, put an estimate on our victory at this time."