(Meanwhile Leo)
Leo's private communicator lit up the moment Charles's speech ended, streams of calls and messages flooding through in an endless barrage. Yet he dismissed them all without a second thought, for in this moment of crisis there were only two voices he wished to hear, and those belonged to Veyr and Chaosbringer.
"I'm sorry, Lord Boss, but it simply isn't possible to save everyone.
With the infrastructure we've already built, we can house at most two billion people in proper units, giving them apartments that are livable, with farms to feed them and meaningful work to keep them occupied.
However, let's assume, instead of giving them all private units to live in, we make every quarter communal, and turn the whole landmass into a concentrated refugee camp, we can still at most house 20 billion, in difficult conditions.
And that too would be the best we can manage right now.
