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Within days, word came back from Zeppelin. High command had approved the military farming operation.
The General had gone to his superiors and made a simple offer: his ten regiments would voluntarily relinquish their claim to redistributed food. They would not draw from the common pool, would not place demands on the Hive's supply chain, and would sustain themselves independently. In exchange, whatever they produced would remain in their hands — no requisitions, no taxation, no official hands in the harvest.
The planetary leadership was trying to feed ten billion people on an empty larder. The idea that ten regiments would simply remove themselves from the problem was received with immediate and unconditional enthusiasm. Approval came back the same day.
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