The Grand Project's formal application notice was forwarded to the Council through S.H.I.E.L.D. after some time. The Council members had already gotten wind of it from Nick and had engaged in fierce private debates.
There was no doubt that it would be approved.
The temptation of living for tens of thousands of years alone was enough to move them. Even if they objected, countless people would find all sorts of ways to hint that they should agree. After all, with Hebron's technological support, they could indeed live longer now. But for one thing, those technologies were too expensive and had to be purchased with New Currency. For another, they always carried a sense of uncertainty, as if one had to take medicine for life. Once they confirmed that the technology would not inflict destructive harm on their homeworld, they tacitly reached a consensus on the matter.
What they argued over was everything else.
For instance, how would the energy be distributed?
And how would it be managed after it came into being?
They had already learned from Nick about the mysterious energy that would emerge after The Grand Project. In their eyes, it was probably a rebranded form of New Energy. The difference was that this energy would most likely be managed and used by humanity on this planet.
The Council members did not understand what incredible power this energy possessed. Even Nick himself had only given vague, unclear explanations. But that did not stop them from comparing it to certain real-world references.
For example, oil? Nuclear power?
They believed this energy was a more efficient and higher-quality form of energy. It lay dormant in the planet core, but it would spread outward in some form, influencing the environment and living beings.
It was clean and pollution-free, and the more