"Don't worry about the space. I'm already working on a solution," Hye said, pausing for effect.
"We already have tens of thousands of artificial planets in our inventory and orbital rings. And I promise you, I will secure even more during this coming month. The infrastructure will be there."
"One month and a mountain of things to do," Legend sighed, rubbing his temples as he looked at the scrolling list of objectives. "Can we really pull this off, Hye? It sounds like we're trying to build a millennium's worth of progress in thirty days."
Hye looked at his friends, the people who had stood by him since the world fell apart. "We don't have a choice," he said quietly. "But if we do this, we won't just be a territory anymore. We'll be an empire."
