[Sara can't stay quiet anymore. this is too familiar--too close to home. it screams of Mavic Chen and the Great Clock--the price the old men paid for the space lanes. and even worse, the price that the Empire was to pay at the hand of the Daleks for the Guardian's own ambition]

I'm not sure the townspeople are the only ones meant to benefit. What about the people of this world? But will they have any idea what their "benefits" cost?