??? What sacrifice? We translated a book this turn, and we can keep translating them as well. That why we have 4 (3) Learning actions.
We had talks of going heavy on books this turn but there's some particularly impactful research that could easily be knocked down. It's more about priorities but since you use the term fist:
I just kept for sake of context.
I think they already did the farms, or if they haven't I assume its either because they can't acquire land easily or food is already readily available and they see no need t build farms.
Not really the land is a bit poor but they could always build hydroponics the problem is that the story of the hollows chapter is set up, encounter problem, nig scary thing happened that put everyone in lockdown, medical rush where we send supplies, trouble with the merchant guild, get the depot in the way, now.
They had a lot of issues trow on them before they could set up issues that Akane can't just ignore because well, she helps the people in front of her before anything.
And one of the fires that akane is constantly dealing with is trying to get people to accept her and the Pilgrims help in spite of all the racism. It is one thing to turn down help, it is another to turn down a job with a decent salary.
That does not work. We can't really buy converts. We can in theory use the money to fund charity projects that passively get us converts, or recruitment campaigns that let us to reach people.
But they don't need an industry for that,they need money, money we really just have.
Hell, the Tersen chapter (ie us) do not employ pilgrims exclusively either, our industry is less about the numbers of converts and more about the base needed for research and recovery of tech so we can keep improving the livelihood of the general population and the wrold overall.