Tuf Voyaging - Second Helpings

Second Helpings

Tuf returns to S'uthlam to pay the first part of his debt. He is hailed as a hero due to the advancements in food supply, now known as "Tuf's Flowering". This is also due to Tuf and Mune, a highly inaccurate, overly-dramatized movie about Tuf's first adventure on S'uthlam, which Mune encouraged so as to build public support for Tuf's plan (and save her political skin from the fallout of helping Tuf escape with Ark).

However, paradoxically, the overpopulation crisis has become even worse due to the S'uthlamese people's over-optimistic response to Tuf's Flowering, increasing ' their reproduction rates. Tuf works on trying to provide even more-efficient crops and animals. He also insists on delivering a planet-wide speech detailing the enhancements he had in mind for S'uthlam and concluding with an explicit admonition.

The only true and permanent solution is to be found not aboard my Ark, but in the minds and loins of each individual S'uthlamese citizen. You must practice restraint and implement immediate birth control. You must stop your indiscriminate procreation at once!

This is received with predictable religious outrage, and Tolly Mune is barely able to extract Tuf from the clutches of an angry S'uthlamese mob.