When the elite heard that Ghosty's Lab fully joined the city, they became worried.
This essentially quadrupled the available number of loyal guards the city had.
Gemini and Kugelblitz realized that it would become much harder to influence the guards for their own means.
However, everyone had a price. That price would just increase by quite a bit.
It was annoying, but there wasn't much they could do about it.
The game dictated that the city guards were difficult to influence due to their loyalty.
The government hadn't gone against their interests directly.
They just made it harder to circumvent the law.
But then, the second announcement hit, and the feelings of Kugelblitz and Gemini were very mixed.
The policy of requiring 20% of Extractors working for a Manufacturer to be dedicated to the city was completely scrapped.