Even Earth's largest cargo ships would be tiny vessels in the void routes. The first cargo ship launched by the Mars Foundry from the summit of Mount Olympus, the Solar System's highest peak, was actually about the same size as an Earth cargo ship. It was a landing craft used to transport War Engines strapped to a rocket, and its carrying capacity could not lower the cost of void logistics by much.
Although the entire container of Martian soil was merely a test item the Mars Foundry used to trial its logistics routes, it could also demonstrate Latveria's technological strength and ambition as a diplomatic gift. It was both a gift and a subtle warning. Earth had never been the Emperor of Latveria's ambition, nor had he ever taken the United Nations' Outer Space Treaty seriously. With that entire container of Martian soil proving its scientific capabilities, he could also use it to gather the world's foremost scientists and turn Latveria into a nation that championed progress, reason, and science.
As the chief culprit openly disrupting the international order, shattering the illusion of peace created by trade agreements and the shared interests of the privileged classes, inserting itself into a strategic region of Europe, and very likely dragging the world back into an age of war, Latveria did not have a particularly flattering reputation. If not for the Emperor's formidable personal power and technological superiority, if not for the precision-strike capabilities demonstrated by teleportation technology, and if not for the strength to seize the entire Balkan Peninsula in one stroke and end every ethnic blood feud, even Regent Victor von Doom's personal diplomatic visits would likely have secured few trade agreements. After all, Latveria itself did not occupy the moral high ground.
As a supporter and inheritor of Superhumanism, Earth