Imperator: Resurrection of an Empire-Chapter 407 - 402 - The System Is Overflowing

Architecture [5] +3

Apprenticeship [3] +2

The completion of the third stage, easily meant my empire was entering the middle game stage, if not already the later stages of the games progression.

Afterall there were only five tech stages to develop before you’d hit a wall, though with this now being reality, perhaps that was as far as the system could go, but what about his very own people?

Could they go beyond the limits of the system and help his empire to rise higher upon the firm foundation their emperor had built first?

I whistled.

But gods, this was overdue.

Choosing to refresh the screen to minimize the third rank tech tree and see the new fourth rank and what it had to offer up.

Stage 4;

Cartography [0/3]

Fortifications [0/5]

Ship Building [ 0/5]

Urban Planning [0/10]

Sanitation [0/3]

Seeing the results of the latest rank up Julius could only remark on how useful only some of these techs were for the here and now.

If the empire was at war, or at the very least at risk of going to war, the more military inclined technologies would certainly be a premium for him right now, but they were at peace, and even with the peace being tenuous the need for forts, and fortifications greater than they already have was unlikely lest the Visigoth emperor lose his mind and declare all out war upon the whole world at once.

So for the Emperor, and his Empire Julius ignored the military techs for now, not just from the tech tree but also from the military tech tree as well.

His armies had performed extremely well in Francia, but at this time against regional powers they were the better, wasting points now to enhance them would just be... well a waste.

So instead of military he turned to the civilian technology, Cartography, Sanitation, Urban Planning, even ship building to an extent.

These would be his focus for the current accumulated points.

Stage 4;

Cartography [2/3] +2

Fortifications [0/5]

Ship Building [ 1/5] +1

Urban Planning [3/10] +3

Sanitation [2/3] +2

Though his tech points were indeed great, the cost of Stage four tech advances was simply to much to bear all at once.

But even still, the growth just from this alone would be enough to cause Serena to swoon, as the empire advances ever more into a grand empire the likes of which this world has never seen before.

With his tech points all but exhausted at this point, Julius instead turned his attention to the regional, and local maps of his empire.

Every thing under his direct control was visible thanks to the system map, clear without any fog of war.

And thanks also to the system like any Grand Strategy build game, he as the ruler of this nation had access to make modifications however he liked.

And with almost four hundred thousand build points at his disposal, the empire was about to change drastically.

Starting off with the core cities of Latinium, Lunalia, and Rosaria that served as the inner realms of the Romanus Empire, Julius was quick to enhance them.

The citizens houses quickly changed from simple single story houses into sprawling three story apartment buildings.

Thanks to the boost from Urban Planning Level 3, Julius was able to make far better use of his cities space to accomodate a rapid influx of new citizens arriving from distant lands, most abundant would be the new war slaves coming in from Francia, these tens of thousands of men and women would require proper housing, and these new complexes would provide just that for them to live in.

After that he moved his way to the coastlines.

A number of fishing villages dotted the way, but what his eyes fell on were the port cities.

Currently the Empire controlled, Carthage and it’s three main port cities, one from Parthia, three within the core territory, and lastly 3 more from Achae, and Francia.

10 total proper port towns and cities, but compared to Carthage all the others were a dissapointment.

Their ship building facilities were almost a joke.

Sure it was enough to build basic fishing vessels and slow moving rowed merchant ships but what Julius needed were sailing ships.

His Navy still had the Grand Fleet, but it was old once a real naval conflict erupted they would lose ships for sure and they needed to be able to replace them, at the same time with the empire expanding as it had the only other sources of possible gain lay in the far east, but to get there would require naval assistance which the current Navy just couldnt provide.

So these seven ports were quickly chosen for upgrades, the facilities for building ships quickly overhauled and brought almost to the same standard as the royal shipyard of Carthage itself.