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The outsiders or those who became known as the OFFWORLDERS... were not just the Orians.
Traders came from other worlds BUT were restricted to set landing zones / trading centres controlled by the Ai entity.. monitored and enforced by AEGIS. 
Tribute paid to the Orians .. NOT only goods offloaded but Human(a) in cages loaded onto certain craft. Many in the belief they were going off to a new life in a new paradise. Ones who had paid almost all of their Drax (Gold n any other rare resources. Cadmium, Silicates).
Zad had been stood watching the latest vessels arrive. Orian ones were lacking any identification markings. They had signal transducers ,that allowed them through any security checks.
Numbers had steadily increased. Bringing in more crates. Getting access to them was virtually impossible. Storage areas were heavily guarded and after they had been sealed in, gases were released into the air around them.
Toxic to any Human(a). Not so good for the Orians but definitely deadly to any others.
Set Zones within zones of occupation. Reserved for the Orians Airborne ‘craft’ were strictly controlled and any deemed in violation were destroyed.
MANY original industrial complexes had been left to rot and ruin. NO need for what goods they offered or processed. ALL manufacturing of any value was for weapons, craft and other essentials not forgetting the existing mines.
Medical facilities for removing organs, modifying, adapting for ELITE iClones.. existed.
Old ones who went onto iCloning needed replacement young, organs. Their entire forms refreshed.
For Zad, as a spy.. sent by the Galacia Federa to deliver some truth re what the Orians were up to?
YES. They were KNOWN to be devious, cunning, taking over worlds, mining them until those resources ran out.
Then using the planet to breed.. the natives of any planet.
SLAVES, FOOD, were always a desirable trading commodity. This race were found to be a very desirable edible delicacy.
A number who had been taken off the planet had been removed to processing plants on other worlds where the taste had been a top selling food resource.
Skin flesh, organs all selling well. Christmas Turkey.. all the stuffing.. substitute a young Human(a) cleaned out, carefully stuffed ready for the feasting. Even ones to celebrate the end of the Human(a)? NO.. that could not be allowed.. !
To terminate that food supply.. NEVER!
Fattening up the populace, advanced crops with rich processed slurry tor the Human(a) to quote that they had never had it so good?! Getting fatter and fatter.. to where the guards were all but non existent. These fattened calf were not going anywhere other than the breeding pens.
The realization by some that the cargo weight could be heavily reduced IF the processing of the flesh could be done on
Solus3 (Earth). often worked for a set period of time before the workers were fed to the ‘machine’. ?
Secured those places from being uncovered for what they were with none left to tell or reveal?
A real bonus for those now filling huge tanks with the processed flesh. Workers at those places could also be fed from the slurry left overs. Once again reducing costs.. adding to the weight and the flavour of the finished slurry when they ended up in the ‘machine’.
It would take a lot of TIME for Zad to establish herself, begin her undercover work. The rebels were a good starting point.
Mountainous areas, where the Ai entity and its cohorts could not, NO! did NOT want to go. Such areas were less than one third of the planet.
The buyers of their food products wanted assurances that their would be no contamination by any ingredients that were anything but the best. Menials and mountain dwellers, PRIMITIVE uneducated were NOT wanted.
Thin, sometimes emaciated in comparison to their bred products..
The overall health of those rebels was actually better. Food supplies, water supplies contained minerals from the mountain springs. Fresh, clean and that included food stuffs GROWN in those areas. LIttle processing though some were stored VERY carefully to allow for a long term supply of the essentials; harvests.
A message sent to her from her Galacia Federa commanders. TO meet up with an Orian commander.
Should the Orians have been suspicious or on their guard realizing that she was there.
NO. Vanity and arrogance.
Commander Sjeis of the Orians was no different to many of their race re how they regarded others.
The Galacia Federa were a nuisance. True they could NOT nro would dare to attack them.
BUT whether they did as they were told? NO.
ONE of them on the planet. Did not warrant them getting worried, not one jot. BUT as always they liked the idea of a meeting with that ONE.. to remind it that they were in control. Had the approval of those native to this world.
In short take your sorry butt off this world might be equivalent ..
What it KNEW she had NO knowledge of was the arrival of its forces in massive numbers. For the full take over of this primitive race. The BILLIONS of them ripe for plucking ? NONE of their other planets were this populated.
It was to them, borderline obscene.
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