The Myriad Magnet Continent was destined to be a long-term project. Even Oran Island, with an area of only a few tens of thousands of square kilometers, had taken over a decade to develop to its current state.
That went doubly for the Myriad Magnet Continent, which covered several million square kilometers. Developing even the current million square kilometers was a daunting project.
Perhaps progress would accelerate considerably as the Science Institute continued making technological breakthroughs and the overall capabilities of the Oran Empire's citizens improved.
But they still needed people. Without people, everything else was empty talk.
I'll have to do more to encourage childbirth when I get back! Lind silently made another decision.
The Oran Empire's population situation had been rather tight before, too, but Lind had worried about a population explosion exceeding its capacity. Having to introduce family planning then would have been even more troublesome.
Thus, Lind had never explicitly encouraged childbirth, choosing instead to respect natural and social patterns.
But now, with the Oran Empire launching projects to build a new continent and explore space one after another, overpopulation was no longer much of a concern.
Instead, the population shortage deserved more attention. If they waited twenty years, until they needed people even more, encouraging childbirth then really would be a little too late, greatly delaying the Oran Empire's development.
Now was the best time to encourage childbirth. They could afford to raise the children anyway, with the Myriad Magnet Continent and all the islands that would be expanded afterward.
Even if their parents could not afford to raise them, the state could. At the very least, there would be absolutely no problem supplying food.
As for producing other daily necessities, they could only rely on the Science Institute and see whether it could further