The Gallic Seigneurs

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Honorable friends,

Le Maréchal suggests only two of these projects can be pursued, while disappointing it isn't surprising considering what our glorious house has had to endure over the last few years.

It'll come as no surprise that I am here to stress the need for the Vandoeuvres colony to be reconstructed and for food production on other worlds within the Union to be ramped up. Planet Metz is struggling. While the mentions of famine were originally thought to be untrue, that was before the destruction of the colony. The populace of the planet has been under strict rationing laws for the better part of a year now and what little food we have coming in is proving to be completely inadequate for what we require.

There are those on the surface who are trying to incite some sort of uprising against the Union and myself, perhaps aided by the Maquisards who seem to frequent the system, I genuinely fear for our control over Metz should these malcontents be allowed to continue, should the Seigneurs and Le Maréchal continue to absolve themselves of the problems faced by the planet then we may have a runaway problem that we'll quickly lose control over.

My people can survive without the mirror array for a time - it is not as urgent as the need for food and oil.