Thread:AenMaps/@comment-30574470-20160922181129/@comment-15419758-20161203233810

Some collectives start changing their laws in response to the crisis. Two political stances soon emerge. Some politicians say that the territories should be made collectives right away, and let the people there choose Free Drilling as they want. Others say, however, that Kharzothia shouldn't appease terrorists and should delay when the territories become collectives until after the terrorists are defeated. The former party says that legalizing non-Kharzothian drilling in those territories would slow down drilling-related crime, while the latter says that greedy capitalists would still take advantage and corrupt the economy in Kharzothia. While debate happens, the military fights back against FODRM, taking over oil rigs in the process. Despite the political split, some legislation is made to adopt a Free Drilling policy in Kharzothian waters (off any collectives shores though), and legalizing Free Drilling becomes popular in some northern collectives (though previously DB Cooriyen adopts DD). With the terrorist crisis and the political heat from it, a popular movement called the People's Oil Drilling Association (PODA) is started by the people to ban Domestic Drilling policies, and force collectives/territories to either be Free Drilling, or Drilling Banned. They also want territories to be able to choose their own drilling policy, rather than waiting for themselves to become collectives. The PODA believes that both Kharzothian and non-Kharzothian oil capitalists can be corupt and greedy, and the best way to stop them is a DB policy, while in less-corupt areas, an FD policy would stimulate the economy. They proclaim DD policies are causing the conflict, and more extreme PODA members even say DD policies not only discriminate against Lacertan capitalists, but also against Lakrothians in general and is a form of racism and neo-Kharzonusianism, along the lines of the old Ronald Grump and Dike Fence dictatorships in Kharzonus.

On Blaercha, more BLARGH ships go Super Saiyan, err... Super Swarm, and reach towards the large -DH8B9 and -5B22K ships to help them. They start pushing into the Ghallian army with immense force, and Kharzothian scientists further study the Super Swarm to see how they could use it with their own BLARGH technology.

In Space, Diamond Dragon and KHARGH-7H2NJ reach the Miaphisian and start releasing robotic pods to land on the asteroids and mine them. Once a pod fills itself with minerals and possible fuel sources, it will take off and deliver the resources back to the ships. Kharzothia also agrees with Varenvasia's retake Tagah plan and starts plotting its own plan. Some military commodores suggest sending a ship to Lesthar, Tagah's larger moon, to set up a base in preparation for retaking Tagah.