Though it was a dinner gathering of Black Panther royal nobles, socializing was a more important course than food. The undisputed focus of everyone's attention was T'Challa, who would become king tomorrow, while even the Queen Regent seated beside the empty throne took second place. Emperor of Latveria half-lidded his eyes and listlessly stuffed nuts into his mouth, surveying the various attendees under Princess Shuri's introductions.
There were nobles who controlled Vibranium processing companies, business-political conglomerates that controlled communications firms and royal franchise licenses, technological consortiums that possessed antigravity engine manufacturing techniques, and more. Before taking the throne, T'Challa needed to communicate thoroughly with these nobles. He needed to promise them greater benefits in exchange for their support of his reforms.
Many of the companies the City of Immortals had established in Africa had been launched in cooperation with Wakanda. In the eyes of these nobles, Emperor of Latveria, the mysterious partner of the former king, had brought them vast quantities of high-quality industrial raw materials, making up for the shortage of basic industrial materials caused by their past isolationism.
Unlike the Border Tribe, which was dedicated to defending the borders, the nobles of Wakanda's Golden Tribe present all had some degree of blood relation with the royal family. As a result, they controlled most of Wakanda's current industrial production facilities. With royal authorization, industrial machines operating at full capacity in noble-owned factories produced large quantities of high-end technological goods, such as antigravity engine components and individual detection radar. Wakanda could not absorb these products, but the City of Immortals consumed all of what should have been excess production capacity, creating enormous wealth for these nobles.
Later, Emperor of Latveria persuaded the previous king, T'Chaka, and the current Princess Shuri to double Wakanda's industrial capacity. The industrial resources flowing from