While the effects of recent expansions have hit the economy, it was not as tremendous as Askal would have hoped. Askal has ordered further expansion, in the hopes that continued expansion will increase the effects on the economy. Already, the overpopulation issue is lessening in the capital, but continued expansion will be necessary to keep the burden light. Exploration has led to the discovery of a nation to our north, first contact has not been made yet, however. Exploration hasn't had any major discoveries yet. The civilians lifted from sprawling slums of the home world have become adapted to colonist life, and things on the previously colonized worlds have begun to pick up. On new systems and worlds, the same strategies have been in use as they have proven highly effective. Unemployment, housing prices, and homelessness are down as a result of the campaign, and it is believed it will only scale with continued expansion.
