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Civilian use was a very broad term. It covered far, far too many things to count.
Were technologies such as brickmaking and cement production difficult?
They were not necessarily difficult, and in some ways they were very simple.
The difficulty lay in trying to make bricks and cement in a world without any industry, such as ancient China, when you only knew a little about them beforehand. That would be very hard. You might have to devote the best years of your life to developing them.
But the simple side was indeed very simple. Developing these technologies in a world without an industrial foundation was difficult, but in a world that already had one, both were among the most basic of basics.
Once someone began researching them, success would come quickly. The fundamental reason they had never appeared in Azeroth was that no one had thought in that direction or tried to make them.
Most people pursued destruction instead. The Dwarves researched gunpowder, developed cannons, and built dwarven helicopters. The Goblins had the Goblin Zeppelin. All of these had been created to strengthen their military power.
The only supportive application was in growing crops.
Now that the crisis had been resolved, Rex looked back and discovered an enormous market. It was enough to raise the Kingdom of Gilneas several levels in strength, perhaps even transforming it from the Kingdom of Gilneas into the Empire of Gilneas.
Industry drove development. Lordaeron City could one day become the largest city in Azeroth, and even a population of more than ten million was not impossible.
Rex had calculated city populations before. Around a million was already the greatest population a city could support at present. After