The alliance with Dune Town had even deeper implications. After all, it was a Town and it was still thousands of kilometers away from them.
The deal had been finalized just over a month prior through Helios and his new wife, the beautiful Sahara.
The trade deal was for Alterra to give water-making technology and drought-resistant plant seeds in exchange for large amounts of oil.
While they were trying to be self-sustaining in terms of electricity and various mechanical productions, there were still plenty of uses for petrol.
Plastic and synthetic materials—despite the trouble it caused them in Terran—had a lot of great uses which they could not discount because they feared the troubles brought about by its overuse.
The material could be used as electrical insulators, casings, packing materials, storage, and so on. It also had too many uses for medical tools like syringes, IV bags, surgical instruments, and the like.