That takes someone to anticipate them, doesn't it? A group of people ready to take the reins of different portions of the city, before another oppressor comes in and takes it.

[ Silco has a plan, of course. Several plans. The chembarons would have played their role, putting them into places and having them take up the positions of Zaun's industries and public works — before he installed more and more competent people into them as it went.

It was all some orchestrated plan, one that would never see the light of day, apparently. ]

They were not unknown elements, in short.