The Ocean Fleet Act

The way the North was governed was bound to differ from the way Central was governed.

The history of the North was the history of its wars with monsters. In the process, the military had grown to an unprecedented size—a clear difference from the other regions.

Every industry in the North was structured around war. Although it had the largest industrial district among the territories we had occupied so far, it was unclear how best to make full use of it.

The factories mainly produced weapons, yet their facilities and equipment lagged behind those of our southern factories.

But if we simply assigned them light industry, the West and East already handled that.

Therefore, the North's modernization had to center on producing weapons in its existing factories.

Thanks to the southern factories, our current weapons production was sufficient, but demand for weapons would only continue to grow.

"The North will take charge of heavy industry, with weapons production at its core."

Monsters were a constant threat. This wouldn't end just because this monster wave had passed.

The monsters driven north during the founding of the Empire a thousand years ago would inevitably rise again ten or twenty years from now, even if we stopped this offensive and they fell quiet for a while...