As the person in charge of the budget and treasury, I will say yes, we had a large drop in budget once. But based on the records here, it's not from over-selling, it's from over-extension of territory and probably from that Wall project we did once but never finished.
I found a record during that time period: we found five uninhabited planets near our system rich with Celestite and Carbite. So we took it, fortified them all and turned them into mining planets. Fortification of that scale requires a lot of effort...and money. Suffice to say, we had a drop before we managed to reap the planets' bounty.
And that bounty made the Second Dynasty.
Then again I could be wrong, I'm still pretty new here compared to the other members, so they might know what really happened.
I found a record during that time period: we found five uninhabited planets near our system rich with Celestite and Carbite. So we took it, fortified them all and turned them into mining planets. Fortification of that scale requires a lot of effort...and money. Suffice to say, we had a drop before we managed to reap the planets' bounty.
And that bounty made the Second Dynasty.
Then again I could be wrong, I'm still pretty new here compared to the other members, so they might know what really happened.