An Yang sat at his desk, supporting his temple as he felt an unusually splitting headache. Before him lay a clean sheet of stationery.
Logically speaking, informal items should never make it onto his desk, but this sheet of stationery was clearly no formal policy decree or official bureaucratic planning document. Official matters should always be brought up on A4 paper; what in the world was this with stationery and handwritten ink, complete with a red thumbprint pressed at the bottom?
Seriously, An Yang was so exasperated he almost laughed!
At his level, ordinary things could no longer genuinely give him a headache, yet he never expected that the group of pillar ministers he relied upon, the group of scientists propping up the empire's technology, would actually bring such trivial nonsense all the way to him.
Because the warp drive technology acquired earlier in Star Trek had consistently proven difficult to crack, and the empire was rather urgent in this regard—after all, the star systems surrounding the Huaibei Empire were not as barren as Parランス, and many resource planets as well as suspected habitable worlds held considerable development potential. Relying solely on the starships brought by Your Majesty was naturally not enough; the empire inevitably had to build its own starships in order to unlock the epic achievement of interstellar colonization, yet this technology seemed exceptionally difficult down in the Apocalypse World.
Actually, it was not that the scientists weren't pulling their weight; the main reason still lay with the materials. Because the worlds were different, the material resources they possessed were also different. The materials used to build warp engines in the Star Trek world could not be found in this world, and replacing them with another material proved far too difficult.
In the early stages, the imperial cabinet