Bamboozled
It was a happy time on Zaonia (0104 C885655-5 Ag Ri 123). In fact the newspapers were calling this The Happy Times. why not? *They had created a system to prevent fraud locally. *They had established a banking system for heavy offworld investors who wished to secure certain funds and valuables away from prying eyes and sensors. *They began their own ship loans and financed a small fleet of subsidized merchants. *They had repelled an offworld invasion (though the leader was homegrown and many polities claimed that didn't really count.) They had established small but thriving markets for their paper products. They made the subsector capital knuckle under and make good on their contracts and staved off a recession. They had established a safe haven for psionics and had a few hundred they vetted who were deemed loyal. Pretty good for an underpopulated and low tech backwater. The Tech Knights who ran the show sat back and had a cold one and some cigars. About a millio