Name: Roots for the Little Guy

Description: The Unfallen ability to put down roots and become a Third is not always a purely personal decision. Workers woke up this morning to find that an anonymous Unfallen has planted her roots and become a third in the middle of the construction site for a planned robotic factory which would replace millions of workers, halting progress and risking abandonment of the site.

Choice 1: Uproot (Industrialist)

Description: The wheels must turn. Uproot her and place her out of the way, then resume construction.

Objective: Construct 8 new buildings to provide the infrastructure to remove the Third.

Outcome: With the Unfallen Third uprooted (mostly) without harm, work is expected to resume. The Unfallen are certainly unhappy with the result, citing the moral imperative of economic development, but they will learn in time that the industrial health of the empire is paramount, and this factory is about to become its grinding mechanical heart.

Reward: World-Tree Industrial Spire: Unique Building. +40 Industry per System Level. Using lessons learned from Unfallen bodily architecture, this industrial facility functions like a massive tree, with maximum density of production modeled after the flow of nutrients in plants.

Choice 2: Concede (Ecologist)

Description: It would be both expensive and unpopular to undo this. Better to go with the flow.

Objective: Grow 8 new minor pops within 10 turns to prove the agricultural use of the Thirds chosen location.

Outcome: Perhaps there was a better solution, but now at least some benefit has been found. The empires industrialists are still annoyed at their lost investments, but the new Park of the Nameless Third has inspired both a wave of similar protests and an atmosphere of political engagement in your people. The Unfallen quietly approve, and follow the Thirds example.

Reward: Grove-Kitchens: Building. +20% Food production on Happy on System, -20% Food reduction from Blockade on System. Through science and deep meditation, some Unfallen have found ways to ensure that they grow fruit once they become Thirds. Volunteer grove-kitchens spring up system wide to feed the poor and displaced, in peace and in war.

Choice 3: Ascend Together (Pacifist) (Condition: Empire must contain a Guardian)

Description: The Unfallen spirit is that of compromise. Surely one can be found here?

Objective: Sacrifice a Guardian to create an atmosphere of cooperation

Outcome: The fumes of the Guardian allowed all sides to contemplate the Thirds choice, and so there was a compromise: grow the economy as planned, but pass on the benefit directly to the masses. A new employment agency headquartered under her branches, raised wages, and expanded public services will ensure that for the next major project, nobody will be left behind. A fitting memorial.

Reward: Natural Employment Agency: Empire Improvement. +50 Dust per Friendly Empire on Empire. Combining Unfallen empathy culture with xenopsychology and predictive models, the unemployed can be brought together across cultural lines and trained for predicted fields and upcoming projects.