The impacts of the bill passed by the General Assembly of the Gaian Alliance could be felt around the world almost immediately. The financial crisis that it caused was not merely a temporary blip, but was the result of very rapidly shifting capital flows away from standard sectors where investors would normally earn a handsome return on investment, and more towards anything that had to do with interstellar space.
It became the newest gold rush, one that was unlike anything ever recorded in the history of human civilization. Overnight, the structure of the economy changed, causing mass disruptions that spread far and wide. Only societies like that of the elves, who didn't have a free market, were functional, and even they were rocked by the changes that had already begun to occur.
Not a single person was exempt from its impacts.
