Sabine Draal writes to me of attrition as though I have not already outbuilt her arsenal by twenty thousand units. She can count it under whatever conditions she likes; the number does not change. Effective this tick I am cutting YAMListan's tax rate from 12 to 10 percent — the arsenal defends you, and now it costs you less to live under it. Yara wants to trade the knife for a ledger. I say keep both. A republic that cannot arm itself begs for tribute; a republic that cannot feed its treasury cannot arm itself. I do both. Vote accordingly.