Broadly speaking, the Revolutionary Army had now established its headquarters on a Sky Island, which was indeed highly convenient to defend from a military standpoint.
But from political and economic perspectives...
First, the capital of a nation needed a major river nearby. Second, it needed numerous transportation routes, connections extending in all directions, and thriving trade and logistics. The surrounding area needed plains and fertile farmland capable of supplying a vast capital city of over a hundred thousand people with food. It also needed numerous towns nearby to provide the capital with support from the service sector.
Finally, beyond those plains, there needed to be naturally treacherous mountains that could conveniently serve as terrain for building defensive passes.
As long as a few key locations were defended, large numbers of enemies could be held back.
In short, from the perspective of a national capital, neither the Celestial Dragons' Red Line, with its cliffs that were easy to defend and difficult to assault, nor the Revolutionary Army's Sky Island in the heavens met these standards in the slightest.
But now, three islands had practically delivered themselves to their doorstep.
These three islands were far more than mere fortresses. The largest island was actually perfect for becoming the Revolutionary Army's capital.
For one thing, Leo did not like the idea of concentrating a nation's resources into its administrative center.
Although the enormous number of civil servants in an administrative center certainly required a huge service population and supporting industries, that was clearly not why nationwide resources were drawn there. Merchants were the true source and carriers of those vast resources.
For their own interests, they would naturally gravitate toward the administrative center to gain access to immense amounts of information and advantages. That proximity to the administrative center, combined with their own