I encourage all citizens to vote in favor of this deal.
This deal is about power, and we have the opportunity to seize it. Elucidia does not wish to alter the Construction for Map Making agreement that we signed 9 turns ago, because they do not need Map Making from us, even if we could offer it to them faster than they could research it.
This tells me that they expect to trade for it. Talking to Apolyton, it seems my suspicions are correct. They "accidentally" asked if we were going to trade them Philosophy and Mathematics for Map Making. Moments earlier, in a separate chat, Elucidia mentioned that they were going after Philosophy next!
So, it seems to me that if we do not intercede and provide Mathematics to Apolyton first, then we will have to wait until we get Construction (up to 30 turns) to trade to Elucidia for Map Making.
Why should we wait that long to get a vital tech like Map Making when we can get it in 6 or 7 turns, if not sooner. I say we make this deal, even if we have to end up gifting Construction to CDG to avoid an incident with them down the road.
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