To Infinity, and Beyond!
Author: Agent_047
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Emperor’s council chamber, the simulation.

“I agree with His Majesty. The remnants will continue being a problem and causing trouble as long as they’re still on Earth,” John said.

Aron had begun the meeting by giving his ideas on what should be done with the noncitizens, as Operation Boiling Frog wasn’t working nearly as well as he’d thought it would.

“But where can we send them?” Minister Rogers asked.

Eventually, all of Earth would be populated entirely by imperial citizens and government functionaries, so isolating the noncitizens on an island or something would just be kicking the proverbial can down the road. Sure, “future them” would have more options to deal with them, but Jeremy was of the firm opinion that curing a disease was much better than simply treating its symptoms.

“There’s a lot of moons in the solar system. Hell, Jupiter has 79 of them and we’re still discovering more that count as moons. And Saturn has even more! I mean, we could also just draft them into ARES and
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