Drek's success as a chairman and businessman quickly led him to the status of leader of the Blargian Government. However, driven by greed, he launched a scheme that first involved secretly overpolluting his own homeworld. When it was rendered inhospitable to life, Drek ordered the military to invade the other planets of the Solana Galaxy to extract their choicest planetary components, such as independent planets in the Shadow Sector, and even worlds occupied by the Galactic Government, who seemed oblivious to the invasions. He would then use parts of these planets to assemble a a new planet for the Blarg. This way, Drek could coin tremendous amounts of cash when his own species paid to inhabit the new planet.