“This is like the colonies, isn’t it?” she said. Trejo lifted his eyebrows, answering her question with a wordless one of his own. “You’re shifting everything to Laconia,” she said. “Not just ships or money. The culture.” Trejo smiled. “Earth will always be the home from which humanity sprang, but yes. The high consul thinks that … fetishizing Earth is bad for the long-term future of the species. We will also put in place an accelerated repopulation scheme. Try to adjust the balance so that Sol system isn’t such an overwhelming majority of the population either.” “You can’t put billions of
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