All good empires need good freight options, which basically means containers! Containers full of stuff! What kind of stuff do they contain, nobody knows. Have they got shoes in them, maybe. What about food? Probably not. Hordes of irate knife toothed, sword fingered, purple aliens? Yeah, maybe.
If that doesn't get your freight gears turning like the tracks on our plasma powered claw crane then I'm afraid we'll have to call the inquisition from one of our heresy-proof™ buildings!