The Expeditionary Force's strategic plan was exceptionally detailed. Multiple Eridu Special Agents who had joined the Brotherhood of the Shield had kept thorough records of Egypt's culture, geography, climate, and other conditions during this era. Egypt was still in its "Predynastic Period." Upper Egypt lay along the upper Nile in southern Egypt and was the agricultural, population, and cultural center of the Nile Valley at the time, while Lower Egypt occupied the fertile Nile Delta in northern Egypt.
The Neolithic Badarian Civilization of Upper Egypt was still in its early stages. The people there survived through simple farming, fishing, and animal husbandry. Eridu's traveling merchants often sailed small boats along the Mediterranean coast, transporting turquoise from the Sinai Peninsula to the Nile Delta. They then traveled upstream to the vicinity of the Badarian Civilization in Lower Egypt, trading unpolished turquoise for barley, wheat, and lentils. After returning by the same route, they used a series of logistics channels arranged by the Emperor to transport the grain to Eridu's various strongholds on the Sinai Peninsula.
Compared with transporting grain from the Mesopotamian plains to the Sinai Peninsula and Egypt, this method was clearly more economical. It was also a reluctant measure on the Emperor's part. In this Neolithic era, he could only trust that those in charge of the various strongholds, who had received temple education, possessed sufficient loyalty and would not affect the Expeditionary Force's plans.
Egypt had no concept of a nation at this time. There was no name such as "Egypt," much less any distinction between Upper and Lower Egypt. The largest administrative unit was merely a primitive nome formed by village communities. The Kree's main research base was located in one such primitive "nome" in Lower Egypt. During the Predynastic Period, only farming regions had enough population