The war with the Saiyans did not go as smoothly as the Tuffles had first hoped. As such, the King decided to issue a decree to further support the war effort. Under Royal Edict #17223, all branches of the Tuffle Government, and indeed, the civilization in general, pursued various means to ensure the survival of the Tuffle race. These means collectively came to be known as the 'Numbered Contingencies', due to how they were filed in the Royal Archives.

While over several hundred were executed, only few ever came to fruition.

Contingency No. 1: Project Banana Peel
An experimental suit designed by nano-engineer Dr. Nanaba. Its purpose was to increase soldiers' longevity by spraying a mist of medical nanites into the air and passively healing the injuries of surrounding troops. It was stolen and never saw the battlefield, disappearing into the realm of legend.

Contingency No. 13: Project Lemonade
Perhaps one of the most heavily-funded programs of the numbered contingencies. Project Lemonade was a pre-emptive effort undertaken by the Tuffle Science Commission to study Saiyan biology and unravel any secret weaknesses they might have. To this end, on the eve of the war, tens of thousands of Special Forces units were deployed across the planet to kidnap hundreds of Saiyan women, children, and elderly.

They were spirited off to secret laboratories scattered across the galaxy and subjected to the most heinous of scientific experiments to see what made them tick. Many of these Saiyans died, while a scant few were put in cryostasis for further experimentation down the road.

After the Tuffle Genocide, these labs continued to operate under the Continuum's influence as part of a proposed plan to retake Planet Plant. The research ultimately resulted in the creation of the MELONs, the artificial Saiyan slave warriors used by the Continuum.

Contingency No. 19: Operation Pie in the Sky
A concerted effort by Tuffle Orbital Command to reinforce the Sky Funnel orbital defense network. This network consisted of a constellation of several dozen magnetic artillery satellites, each capable of firing a multi-ton slug at hundreds of times the speed of sound.

Special 'blast funneling' technology within each slug contained the resulting ground explosion, concentrating the power of a nuclear bomb into a 5-meter radius. This highly efficient use of energy transfer meant that less things would be destroyed, but whatever the target was would be hurt very badly.

King Vegeta observed early uses of this technology against his armies and prioritized the destruction of the satellites. The Saiyan attacks on Sky Funnels eventually outpaced the construction of new satellites. The remaining three Sky Funnels were destroyed on the last night of the war, when they were used to provide covering fire for escaping Tuffle ships.

A few decades later, when the Continuum discovered the existence of Super Saiyans, vast amounts of funding and effort went into improving the Sky Funnel technology to even greater heights. Today, the small fleet of Continuum warships is equipped with Strike Funnels capable of firing slugs at near-light speeds, more than enough kinetic energy to harm even a Super Saiyan.

Contingency No. 33: Project Grapevine
The Tuffle Immigration Bureau attempted to establish dozens of colonies on other planets over the course of the war. Many of these efforts proved futile, either due to the hostile ecosystems of the chosen worlds, or because resources were spread so thin that the colonies could not be properly supported.

With the destruction of the Tuffle civilization, most of the colonies lost their support before becoming self-reliant, and either died out, or degenerated into small tribes. The Continuum monitors these colonies for potential new conscripts. Indeed, most modern Tuffles come from these failed colonies.

Contingency No. 42: Project Guapple
The uplift of a xeno species that had naturally evolved an extremely useful power. The Tuffle Science Commission's Department of Evolutionary Biology had originally experimented experimented on this race some decades earlier and jumpstarted their civil advancement by leaps and bounds.

When the war began, this little uplifting experiment was retooled to be used in the war effort. The DEB team introduced the concept of war to this race, which they hoped could be deployed against the Saiyans.

Unfortunately, it proved too little, too late, and the war was over before the new race could be fielded in combat. Within a decade of the Tuffle genocide, DEB probes monitoring the situation determined that the species had all but destroyed itself in a nuclear civil war.

The probes continue to beam information, and a pair of Continuum case officers continue to monitor the planet, in the event that the race recovers from its destruction.

Contingency No. 159: Project Mango Salad
Tuffle Mechanized Command spearheaded a two-pronged program to improve its war machines. On the one hand, furious research went into improving the MANGO battle mech after a single Saiyan adolescent managed to critically damage a MANGO unit with an elite pilot.

This resulted in the TFS-31 "Super Mango", which managed to go toe to toe with some elite Saiyan warriors. With resources being spread thin, however, the Super Mangoes were built in small numbers, which were not enough to turn the tide of the war.

The second program under this umbrella was to develop an army of autonomous mass-produced battle droids to combat the Saiyans. This plan failed catastrophically as the Master AI rebelled and assumed complete control over the city it was built in, deporting its organic inhabitants. The machine army holed up until King Vegeta led his personal guard to lay siege to the city and raze it down to the ground.

The Master AI, however, beamed itself up to a nearby satellite, which it used to leapfrog into a Hypernet Relay, escaping into the vast sea of data in the Hyperweb. It is still at large today. The Continuum's Task Force Huckle-6 is dedicated to locating and neutralizing it.

Contingency No. 215: Project White Wine
This project originated as a generalized experiment in controllable Grey Goo at the University of Appur. While nanotechnology was no means a new concept to Tuffles, who had used it even prior to their colonization of Planet Plant, the subject of a 'Grey Goo scenario' was left taboo, due to its destructive potential.

The researchers behind the project insisted it could be done in a controlled setting, however. Their motive? FOR SCIENCE, of course! They successfully lobbied parliament and gained the right to perform their experiments on a nearby asteroid. They developed a primary control chip which served as the nucleus of a swarm of basic grey goo nanomachines. It was around this time that the War started, and the research team was redirected to repurpose it into a weapon.

Combat Asteroid Gete-1 was deployed against King Vegeta's elite guard in the final months of the war. While initially successful at killing a handful of elite warriors, the Saiyans eventually destroyed the asteroid with a combined energy attack that almost completely vaporized the nanite mass, leaving only the control chip and a few nanomachines floating out in space.

The chip eventually encountered debris, which it absorbed, little by little, until it gained enough mass to actively seek out and assimilate more materials. It wandered the darkness of space for decades, absorbing anything it encountered, until it finally grew to the size of a planet: the Big Gete Star.

Contingency No. 387: Project Berry Vineyard
In light of Project Mango Salad's failure, Tuffle Biowarfare Command developed an army of mass-produced, flash-trained, cloned Tuffle soldiers. Using the DNA of Major Cranba, the Greatest Tuffle Soldier, as a template, millions of clone soldiers were manufactured and deployed against the Saiyans.

Of course, since Major Cranba was still just a Tuffle, the clone army's soldiers fell like any other Tuffle unit. It did manage to prolong the war, however, and some would argue, save millions of civilian Tuffles from potential conscription.

The advances in biofacturing technology, and the lessons learned in cloning science, were later integrated into Project Fruit Basket.

Contingency No. 421: Project Kiwi
The Tuffle Science Commission attempted to develop new superweapons based on Thetarium, a rare and powerful crystal that can be prodded to artificially manipulate ki. While a superweapon itself was never completed, the research and insight gained from the program allowed the Tuffles to generate massive amounts of artificial ki via the synthesis of artificial Thetarium crystals.

Theta reactors were integrated into many Tuffle systems, and by the war's end, nearly every scrap of Tuffle technology made use of this new power source. Unfortunately, it was not enough to turn the tide of the war.

The Continuum makes use of synthetic Thetarium as its primary energy source. This technology is not available to the galaxy at large, and major factions maintain tight control over any scant Thetarium deposits they discover.

The Galactic Patrol's top secret research facility, Dark Mesa, was built over a large vein of Thetarium crystals, which are used to power nearly all of its wild technology.

Frieza Force's Lord Slushee designed and sponsored the construction of THE SNOWGLOBE, a moon-sized battle station powered by a gargantuan Thetarium reactor core. It was destroyed during the war 50 years ago when Galactic Patrol super elites infiltrated the superweapon and sabotaged the reactor.

Contingency No. 664: Project Fruit Basket
Originally intended to go hand in hand with Project Lemonade, Project Fruit Basket preserved the memories and personalities of the best and brightest Tuffles, who would then be cloned as Custodians to guide any Tuffle survivors to rebuilding their lost civilization.

Offworld databases were constructed to ensure that not even total annihilation would destroy the records of these great Tuffles. The Tuffle genocide and the general failure of evacuation and colonization efforts, however, rendered Fruit Basket's original objective void.

The 100 surviving members of Tuffle High Command retooled the project into something far more sinister: the destruction of the Saiyan race. The Continuum's present leadership is comprised of Custodians cloned from the original 100 survivors of Tuffle High Command.

President Drinman's identity is something of a mystery, as his name is not in the Custodian database. It is assumed, however, that he is more of a gestalt consciousness based on multiple leaders.

Contingency No. 665: Project Persimmon
A pet project developed by Dr. Lychee, Chief Director of the Tuffle Science Commission, and the greatest Tuffle scientist of his day. Project Persimmon was the last numbered contingency to be approved by the Tuffle King, and thus the last official contingency plan.

Created with the idea of vengeance rather than victory, Dr. Lychee constructed a superweapon he dubbed "Hatchiyack", which would assimilate the combined grudges and hatred of the Tuffle race. This hatred would then be transformed into an almighty killing machine.

Ironically, on the night of the Saiyan genocide, Dr. Lychee himself was killed while launching his personal escape craft. His hatred was assimilated into Hatchiyack, and in his new undead state, conceived of a plan to eradicate the Saiyans.

Many decades later, he would attack Earth, and both he and Hatchiyack would meet their ends at the hands of the Super Saiyan Kakarot, better known as Son Goku.

The Continuum remains in possession of the plans and formulas used to create Hatchiyack, and has developed a serum capable of mimicking the effects of his powers.

Special Contingency No. 666: The Final Contingency
The war ended so abruptly that King Tuffle was separated from the rest of Tuffle High Command in the ensuing chaos. Left without a leader, the eventual founders of the Continuum decided to take matters into their own hands and chose a new direction for the remains of their people.

The last remnants of Tuffle Civilization, the Continuum, would focus all their efforts on eradicating the Saiyans. It is the driving directive that runs through the very blood of the organization itself. Unlike Dr. Lychee, however, they have the advantage of having military strategists and intelligence directors among their number, allowing them to operate in secret.