From a practical standpoint, Saine perhaps should have stopped the president's plan.
Rather than pouring funds and technology into other, still immature military-industrial sectors of the Icarus Conglomerate, it would have been better to go all out and devote everything to manufacturing combat robot legions.
That way, when the Evil Tide crisis arrived, the total number of Mechanical Legions the Icarus Conglomerate could provide Saine and Wizard Civilization would have been an utterly staggering figure.
But after giving it some thought, Saine ultimately chose to support the conglomerate president's grand plans across every military-industrial field.
Because Saine himself had considered that the Mechanical Legion under his command in the future would definitely not consist solely of monotonous Intelligent Robots and Wizard Civilization Space Fortresses.
His Mechanical Legion should lean more toward a mixed combat force like the Cosmic War Fleets of Technological Civilizations, composed of multiple unit types.
More unit types meant greater complementarity.
As a mage pursuing Truth, Saine did not want the Mechanical Legion under his command to have any glaring shortcomings.
And this Icarus president named Hughson had said so much before Saine and laid out his grand commercial blueprint not merely to prove his own capabilities to Saine.
He also had another unspoken intention—he wanted to ask Saine for more financial support, and hoped Saine could use his authority and standing within Wizard Civilization to pressure the other heavy-industrial conglomerates of the Galente Federation, allowing him to obtain more complete Stellar-level Cosmic Fortress construction blueprints at a lower cost.
Naturally, Saine understood Hughson's implication.
"I can inject a sum of Magic Coins as capital, so that you can realize your commercial plans as much as possible."
"But it will be difficult for me to pressure other conglomerates on the administrative level."
"For the construction of fortresses