The party travels to Civilia, a new-ish city being built on Mytene as part of their bid for Enhanced Societal Status. Civilia is intended to be a city of culture, bringing together the best of Mytenean and Galactic art and society. However, it soon becomes clear to the party that the city is having some issues. Nominally they have been hired by a senior Administrator, Amorphous Alloy, to help eradicate some vermin from buildings - but these buildings are a theatre, a museum and a restaurant, none of which have been used since being built - and all of which were built early on in the city's construction, before e.g. housing for workers or other residents. They also encounter a somewhat purposeless canal which is now being built with very poorly designed plans put together by another bureaucrat, Liminal Gold, who appears to have more ideas than planning skills.
After successfully destroying the various vermin nests and only slightly setting fire to the roof of the museum, the party visit the central Administration building, where they meet not only several members of the bureaucratic adminstration, but also the city's Ship Heart, Civilia itself. It soon becomes clear that the combination of Civilia's whims and the Administration's slavish response to them are what is causing most of the problems. The party do not attempt to do anything about this for now, but instead accept the job of evicting a 'traitor' who has been ordered to leave the city but has not left.
When the find the 'traitor,' an ex-Administrator called Abundant Feldspar, they get a bit more explanation of what is actually happening here and how involved the Ship Heart is in the city's life. Feldspar was an Administrator who raised concerns about the progress of the city with their superiors and wanted to ask for outside help, but the superiors - not wanting to admit to central Administration that any problems might exist - instead reported this to Civilia as outright disagreement with the cultural brief of the city, not wanting to make it sufficiently glorious and cultural etc. Whereupon Civilia both demanded they be exiled and removed its protection from the Decay from Abundant Feldspar - resulting in essentially a small Decay bubble of their personal space following them around at all times.
The party is not happy about this (with the exception of Mossy Hollow, who is very excited by the 'Decay Bubble' part at least), and concoct a plan with Feldspar to get them out of the city and pick them up before returning to central Mytene to report what's actually been going on here. They deposit Feldspar outside the city, promising to return soon, and head back to the central Administration building.
Once there, they argue a bit with Amorphous Alloy, distracting him while Pre-Emptive Flight is talking Civilia around to the idea of workers' homes being built immediately with Civilia's likeness inside every one to inspire them (Civilia's likeness in this case being a globe light fitting), and the party leaves with confidence that immediate construction efforts on what actually matters will begin.