What about direct treasury deposits? Merchantmen and bulkfreighters do periodically just dump their quatloos into planet treasuries.
If that had been the case, then the planet would have easily had enough Quatloos to pay for upkeep on the Mind Control, but it didn't and it went inactive.
I vaguely remember Dave saying something about trade being broken, but I can't remember where and I'm really not in the mood to go checking, so you'll just have to pretend I'm right. So I'll put it down to that and rage about it some more if I'm wrong ¬¬
