"Too many simultaneous replies. Please hold while I order them."
"One, it can't be done that way even if Governance can outfight its population. That would be a negative consequence presented only in anticipation of the other's output change, 'threat'. Which people would ignore because they don't want their predictable decision to offer a reason to threaten them." [Unobserved, confident.]
"Two, one of the few facts passed down is that, when it was said this must be done, all of Governance quit and was never allowed in Governance again, to show that they took it seriously and didn't expect to benefit themselves." [Reported, confident.]
"Three, I'm much more of a cognitively-diverse nonconformist, 'rebel', than the average dath ilani, and it's never occurred to me that I ought to go try to dig up an old city that somebody presumably had a very good reason for hiding." [Direct observation.]
"Four, farms are huge mechanical operations operated by one person in a hundred. They would just change out the machinery once it had been redesigned, not give up the farmland." [Effective certainty.]