The Ethical Mirror

Mining the Belt has consequences. v0.16.0 introduces the Audit Tab — a Bloomberg-terminal-style dashboard that surfaces the real operational footprint of your colony. Robot deployment counts, extraction rates, faction power balance with HHI concentration indexing, and total resource stockpiles. No lectures, no penalties. Just data, rendered in amber, and the question of what you do with it.

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Faction Cost Thresholds

Your relationships with Belt factions now carry economic weight. Factions with low disposition impose a 25% cost penalty on market transactions — hostility is expensive. Reach elite standing (75+) with a faction and you will see the first hints of exclusive access. Faction-exclusive items are designed, lore-approved, and coming in v0.16.1.

What’s Next

v0.16.1 will bring six faction-exclusive items — one per faction, each reflecting deep species heritage. Lore review is complete. Implementation follows sign-off.