"I—I'm finding this a bit hard to accept. If the survey reports are conservative lies, what kind of lives must the people on the planets I successfully helped save be living?"
Topaz felt a pang of distress, but pressed on. "Were they really given preferential treatment by The IPC? Besides, not every planet successfully changed its environment. For that, I am truly sorry. In reality, as far as I know, such environmental rescue projects are not exceptionally good plans—at least, not in terms of success rate."
"I used to believe that as long as the environmental rescue succeeded, handing one's planet over to The IPC wasn't entirely out of the question. At the very least, The IPC wouldn't directly seize the planet; instead, it would prioritize letting the indigenous people participate in the planet's development."
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