Acornia has established a colony on venus. It is top secret, no one knows stuff about it.
Mining operations are prosper. We found basic stuff like iron and copper, and what-not, but we also found a large quantity of pyrite (what the forget is pyrite, beats me), carbon (coal) and a strange new mineral that we're still brown townyzing.
The rest of acornia is left to fight the war because we're total sons of bitches.