The envoys who joined the General Assembly had visited the entire installation in Zeta Ram with the help of the guides, with some of the luckier ones amongst them even given the opportunity to visit the land of Mycroft.
Even so, they were puzzled.
Where did they obtain all these resources?
It was not underestimation but sheer confoundment. The people of Mycroft hid nothing about themselves and generously revealed their homeworld and Void installation with no hint that they were making a fool of themselves, but that was precisely how those envoys had easily noticed that the total population of Mycroft had not even exceeded three billion.
They were simply too few.
