[@thewizardguy] "firstly because our current systems make small scale energy production difficult and secondly because it won't stay as just a colony forever so the excess energy can be put into the new systems when they're built, but for now it's just useful for trade." she replies evenly, a large mass of frigates leaving for his worlds as they speak to do planet-wide scans of pretty much everything, the good twenty frigates and couple hundred dozen corvettes being fairly imposing to see heading into his system, though, from how the sergeant treated it, the force appeared to be incredibly small to her even though they could probably down matt's current recon fleet orbiting the planet with minimal damages or one loss depending on fire distribution.