Trade Hub
Author: Agent_047
last update2025-04-11 23:12:39

"Now that's strange," the Yrall Coalition representative thought as he reviewed the basic information about the Trade Hub, which had been included alongside the docking details shared moments ago.

He was certain that the empire hadn’t possessed this space station during their last mana stones exchange. That left only two possibilities: either construction had already begun at that time, but the station had been too small to be detected from their previous vantage point, or, far more astonishing, it hadn’t existed at all, and the empire had managed to construct this massive facility in less than a year.

Although the Yrall Coalition had the capability to achieve such rapid construction, it was far from cost-effective. Completing a project of this scale within the same timeframe would require nearly five times the usual resources compared to a standard construction timeline. Their ability to pull it off stemmed from their vast and highly efficient industrial production systems. However,
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