The "Korgon dream" became a paramount cultural ideal aboard the Korgonian arks at the time of 2205.07.01. The dream of owning land, real natural soil that one could sink their appendages into. During these years, the rights to every part and parcel of the conquered planet Arrival was bought and sold from the army. It is a well-known reality that before the fibrous Korgonian feet ever touch a square kilometer on these two colonizing worlds, that land has already been traded several hundred times over between the oligarchs of Korgon.
The invasion of Arrival had been ruthless. Gargantuan corporate gangs had assaulted the Sojagg population centers, capturing the citizens and seizing control over commercial activity. Ownership of commercial entities had been seized by these independent wings of the Korgonian army, and each valuable entity was registered with the Korgonian stock exchange. A new system of loans, debt, obligations, and other blunt financial instruments were installed on the Sojagg populace as they were forcibly integrated into the Korgonian way.
It must be said that this disrupted the Sojagg way, which had been egalitarian. In the wake of invasion, the Korgons had not replaced the prior Sojagg government's system of wage supports and universal benefits. Many previously well-off Sojagg were plunged into poverty as the central pillars of their economy were toppled. The Sojagg who remained in power were those closest to the industries, those materialists, some of who had already begun to take on their master's philosophy of authoritarianism, and those who most closely resembled the Korgonian trade unionists. The other Sojagg who still believed in truth and equality lived only on the fringes.
The election of Oligarch Cytophane ka Hiel following the assassination of the prior Oligarch had sent waves of fear and jubilation throughout the dismal, echoing metal halls of the three gargantuan void arks. In an effort to improve the civil stability of Arrival, billions of the native Sojagg were supplanted by the Korgons and transported to the arks of Korgon, Evotilis, and Elox. Here they would pay off loans, or pursue contracts among the labyrinthine and ancient Korgonian void ships.
Law and order across the Korgonate Cartel was especially strict towards the Sojagg. Charity busts were orchestrated to seize accumulated funds and curb the Sojagg's misled altruistic urges. Sojagg leading philanthropists were arrested, and would eventually die in prison.
In these years the Sojagg position in Korgonate society rose from chattel slaves to indentured servitude, as over time certain Sojagg corporations bartered for increased rights across their species. Particularly effective were the activities of the Sojagg restaurant and entertainment corporations, who in their close contact with the hedonistic Korgonate trade union leaders, were able to wile and persuade the industry elite for fairer civil rights. The most barbarous days of Korgon-Sojagg relations had past behind them. Their place as impoverished subjugants beneath the Korgonians seemed deeply entrenched, but conditions were improving slowly for those who obeyed.
The icy clime of Arrival was a cold and bitter sting to the Korgonian void dwellers. Those who spent time outdoors on the planet often suffered from frostbite, lethal within a small number of hours. Instead, they preferred to dwell in sealed, depressurized chambers. The native Sojagg would not often enter into these places, but when it was necessary they would put on a pressurized suit, or only remain for a very small amount of time in no small degree of discomfort. The air contents were not at all a problem, as both the fungal Sojagg and the plant-like Korgonians enjoyed the high carbon dioxide content of the natural air. Air vents exchanged directly with the air, and fed pressurization machines to provide liveable air for Korgonian residents. In highly industrialized zones, this carbon dioxide content was even too high for the Sojagg, who traveled primarily in enclosed and air-filtrated vehicles in such places of intensified industrial activity.
The previous Korgonate governor, Feron ka Yusto, was replaced by his younger cousin Lephyte ka Yusto. Lephyte headed the largest workforce resourcing agency across the Korgonate, and was elected by the business elite to further their objectives across the expanding Korgonate territory. Sojagg work contracts were their hottest commodity, often resulting in Sojagg outbidding for the opportunity to work for decades on a Korgon ship. To the wealthy Korgons, it was a buyer's labor market.
Arrival's economy, to the metrics of the Korgonate, advanced hundreds of years in under a decade.
Back in the comparatively comfortable realm of the metal void ships, the Korgonian sciences continued, although gaining little from the conquest of the Sojagg system. At the least, Cytophane's government had campaigned on exploring the galaxy and planting the Korgonate flag, and followed up on their promise to build two new stellar void explorers with the ability to teleport to uncharted systems. Aboard them, the notable terraforming scientist Glabu ka Jatek, and the master of biology Feron ka Nive.
These voyages to nearby systems were funded by an allocation of speculative investments made by corporate entities belonging to both Korgon and Sojagg. What the Sojagg were not able to attain in equal civil rights, they at least were able to ensure in equal economic rights before the Korgonate. Among the fanatics of the high speculators for exploration and scanning were the defunct managers of Sojagg pensions and employment insurances funds, who collectively organized one last desperate gamble to repay an owed sum equivalent to a four billion Sojagg life years.
The gamble succeeded, and those social security fund managers bought back the lives of fifty million Sojagg wage slaves entrapped in Elox mining schemes.
In those days, the cultures of Korgonate and Sojagg combined, augmented by the imbalance of power. A small element of egalitarianism, although subjugated, was reintroduced to the civilization. Perhaps it would grow, and develop into its own faction. That element resembled the ancient and noble Korgonian virtues, so long forgotten and mutated by their survival for millennia aboard their desperate void ships. As witness to the carnage of these two worlds colliding, the academic and scientific Korgonians watched with hopes that this seed of egalitarianism might re-awaken the noble Korgonian past.
