The world of Foregone has, for millennia, but subjected to the whims and desires of slave traders from the nearby world Relgan.

The relgi originally landed on the world in advanced, ancient starships and captured the local firryans themselves from tribes, small settlements, and petty kingdoms. Eventually the relgi set up the city of Foregone and taught the ruthless city-dwelling firryans to go out and capture their neighbors for profit. The city eventually grew to a sprawling eight million residents, with several million more firryans inhabiting the outlying farms, ranches, and fisheries, but the firryans across the rest of the planet were reduced to nomadic, subsistence lifestyles, constantly on the run from slave hunter operations.

40 years have passed since the destruction of the enslavement operations, the city of Foregone has been rebuilt following our conquest, and hundreds of thousands of slaves have been returned to their ancestral tribes. The Peldak Senate has declared it’s time to redirect our focus towards an ambitious infrastructure project. The goal is to improve the lives of the long-neglected nomads.

The project is expected to last 180 years, roughly the lifespan of two firryans. They are, understandably, warry of outsiders, so the plan is to slowly acclimatize the nomads to accept the beneficial presence of peldaks.

The first step will be the creation of wells, pumps, dams, and freshwater reservoirs across the planet, ensuring the nomads have access to clean water. Historically, slave hunters patrolled rivers, springs, oases, and the constant threat of slave teams forced nomadic tribes into less hospitable regions of the planet.

They might warry of the new infrastructure at first, but on a long enough timescale eventually a few courageous firryans will realize that they pose no danger. After word spreads to neighboring tribes, we’ll move on to step two.