The Hegemony in the past, when only inhabiting the core worlds, focused on quality over quantity. Industry focused on meeting the demands of your Supreme Ruler and high administrators instead of capital, mindful of environmental impact, and eliminating as much waste as possible. While decent enough when only owning a single star cluster; you'd think owning two star clusters would double it. But even your training in economics and industry and you couldn't predict its true impact. Not only do you have many more habitable planets, the new Hegemonic races fulfilling new consumer markets, and possible trade between the colonies and homeworlds; you also have the massive impact of the Reassembler technology, which has replaced almost all small-market consumer goods with very efficient forms of recycling. Every ship and colony has fabricators now; and with uplinking to the AI network mandatory to all they can be turned to whatever use you deem fit to better suite your goals.

Your economy hasn't doubled with the new worlds and technology, it's more then tripled.

While you still can't quite measure up to the raw unfettered, degenerate capitalism of the Consortium; your economic output has greatly exceeded both the Esaal and Aristocrats. Even goods they special in, like mineral processing or biological products respectively, you exceed with your own production. The quality of life and resource abundance for Hegemonic citizens has exceeded both nations, with only the Consortium slightly above it as an average; but this is only because of the huge gap between rich and poor in their hellscape of an economic system. All because of your father. He even made the first battleship; increasing your military's strength to surpass the Aristocrats and Consortium further, though you are still behind the Esaal in that regard.

It appears your father's lifelong, thankless work has paid off. Due to his advanced aging, you have decided on your imperial robes. Black, for respect and honor for the dead and those who came before; but with a gray and yellow stripe, representing Cijan Anak and Avae Anak, your father. At least for the moment; three Anak men who are or were Supreme live at the same time, which is most fortuitous. Your robe represents this.