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Commonwealth Emperor announces Imperial Senate on Sol Expansion plans
Empire fully develops Mars and Asteroid Belt, Emperor to tighten imperial grip over loosely developed outer solar system
Imperial City, Russian Federation, Commonwealth Empire
Commonwealth Emperor Vladimir Putin recently revealed that the Commonwealth Empire would continue its march across the solar system. Imperial city is preparing to invest 10 trillion credits into the expansion of shipyards and asteroid mines needed to fully settle the remaining reaches of the sol system.
The Commonwealth Empire currently controls World Hannover and the entire inner solar system and while claimed the Empire has very limited presence in the outer solar system. The settlement delay is not due to a shortage of funds but due to infrastructural bottlenecks associated with expanding shipyard sizes and industrial capacity needed to settle the outer solar system. Engineers previously worried about intense radiation and magnetic storms of the various gas giants especially Jupiter has concluded that awaiting for advancements in shielding technology can be ignored by simply scaling up shield arrays which requires larger power output and thus larger ships.
Since ship size has to be increased to accommodate increased power output for shields it was also determined that ships would also requires engine thrust power to be several times larger than any of the current imperial ship classes. As such the Emperor has personally ordered the creation of shipyards between Mars the resource rich asteroid belt to begin the mass production of these new gargantuan Imperial class vessels which have civilian and military hull designs.
The Emperor concluded that military vessels must first be prioritized as their advanced sensors will help to better explore the remaining territory and the raw efficiency and professionalism of the Imperial Navy will be used to initially settle and explore these regions first in partnership with the Empire's largest space development corporations. Any uninvited visitors in the claimed imperial space will be dealt with by the Imperial Navy.
*There are in fact rumors that the Empire has discovered aliens attempted to spy on humanity in Hannover. Conspiracy theorist claims this is why the former President Putin now immortal Emperor Putin ultimately founded the Commonwealth led it to dominate the planet which has led to its very aggressive development of space. It would explain by the Imperial Navy is so large when the Commonwealth effectively governs 95% of Hannovers territory and exclusively controls the Sol System.*