At a recent science conference the team attempting to make Zoneland, which suffered a catastrophic nuclear attack, habitable again announced they have made major breakthroughs with new geoengineering technology. A timetable of decades until the planet is barely habitable has been reduced to years.
This is of vital importance to the Clone Star Empire because of the mineral wealth that is on the planet, said to be worth trillions of zarks, cannot be extracted due to the levels of radiation. The CSE Science Academy said that limited mining could begin in five years.
