The Storm Archipelago currently consist of five islands.
They are Storm Island, Crab Island, Sharp Rock Island, Silver Beach Island, and Building Block Island.
The first four islands are natural islands with some seabed silt and rocks, while the last one, the Building Block Island," is composed of nine small, deserted islands.
The core of Storm Island is also the island where Storm City is located.
Noah summoned Gairam, who had been transformed into Apostle. The Cube-Cube Fruit was extremely useful for infrastructure construction, and with Shiki's Float-Float Fruit assisting, a city quickly sprang up.
The construction plan resembles building blocks.
Using the Cube-Cube Fruit, cube-shaped rocks are cut out directly, and then Shiki manipulates these rocks to be stacked in designated locations.
For example, to build a house, you only need to first cut out a cube of rock 15 meters long, wide, and high, and then divide the interior of the rock into smaller sections to quickly obtain a two-story house.
In this way, Storm City quickly completed a series of infrastructure projects within a month.
It includes a governor's mansion, four grain warehouses, 16 defensive castles, 12,000 two-story stone houses, an underground sewage pipe corridor system, two small reservoirs, and ten large industrial plants.
The population that has been gradually transferred from Sikasis Island has reached 32,000, which is initially sufficient to maintain the city's various functions.
Noah intends to position the Storm Archipelago Governorate as an industrial zone.
After all, the Rum Kingdom, an island suitable for farming, coupled with its status World Government Member States, is not suitable for developing industry, especially heavy industry.
Sky Island are also unsuitable for developing heavy industry, since Sky Island have very few minerals. If heavy industry were to be developed, Noah would have to transport some mineral-rich desert islands from the Calm Belt, which is not a long-term solution.
Because the Storm Archipelago are located in the eye of the storm, it receives almost no rain all year round, and the islands can only rely on pipelines for water.
As for the source of fresh water, it's actually very simple.
Because Building Block Island, one of the Storm Archipelago, is not entirely within the eye of the storm, one-third of Building Block Island is in the storm zone, and it is also an area that frequently experiences heavy rainfall.
The Building Block Island was transformed into a unique terrain. The third of the land in the storm zone is not only relatively high, but also forms a basin, which can trap precipitation and transport fresh water through pipelines to the two small reservoirs on the Storm Island.
Therefore, even if it doesn't rain all year round, it won't affect the water supply on Storm Island.
Of course, not all of the Storm Archipelago are planned to be industrial zones.
For example, Crab Island is quite suitable for developing animal husbandry.
Silver Beach Island is suitable for developing agriculture.
Sharp Rock Island and part of Building Block Island are suitable for developing the mining industry.
With the initial completion of Storm City's construction, Jay, who was in charge of the Department of Industry and also oversaw the Department of Science and Education, was transferred to Storm City to take charge of industrial construction.
Given the importance of the Storm Archipelago, Noah transferred Joshua from the Rum Kingdom to serve as the governor of the Storm Archipelago.
Taking into account the management of the various governorates, Noah abolished the Sikasis Island Governorate and moved it from its original sea area to the skies Black Rock Island near the Rum Kingdom.
To ensure secrecy and safety, almost all the Cumuloregalis Cloud produced in the past few months were moved to the skies Black Rock Island, forming a completely new Sky Island.
Furthermore, Sikasis Island will also serve as the production base for the cloud factory, since the Black Rock Island volcano can continuously provide volcanic ash containing Seastone.
Sikasis Island and the Rum Kingdom together form the East Blue Governorate, with Uncle Joseph as its governor.
The Sky Island Jaya Island, along with Birka Island and Gluttony Island, form the Sky Paradise Governorate, with Monet as its governor.
After being redefined and reorganized, the Kingdom of Dawn was divided into three governorates: the Storm Archipelago Governorate, the Sky Paradise Governorate, and the East Blue Governorate.
As for other smaller bases and eavesdropping stations, they were assigned to the Department of Supervision for unified management.
Noah and his crew stayed in the Storm Archipelago until the end of the year, and only set sail again after the New Year.
After more than two months of development, four more mineral-rich islands were added to the Storm Archipelago. These deserted islands were formed by mineral veins that he had secretly mined in the Antarctic ice sheet by sending Shiki.
The factories that were secretly built underground in the Rum Kingdom were largely sealed with cards and then gradually moved to Storm Island using Ray's wormhole jump.
At this time, a large Ark shipyard had been built in the Storm Island Industrial Zone, capable of mass-producing medium-sized Arks.
In addition, research and replication work has begun on the technology obtained from the ancient well ruins on Crab Island.
Noah left Gairam in the Storm Archipelago as the manager of the industrial zone, which also served to fulfill Noah's vision for developing the Cube-Cube Fruit.
Besides its immense applications in infrastructure, this Cube-Cube Fruit also has significant uses in scientific research and weaponry.
Because the cubes created by the Cube-Cube Fruit can be compressed, this characteristic alone can lead to a wide range of applications.
For example, if hydrogen is compressed to its maximum, it becomes metallic hydrogen, which has an explosive power dozens of times that of TNT.
If metallic hydrogen is further compressed, the hydrogen atoms within it will undergo nuclear fusion, thus triggering a nuclear explosion.
Of course, to compress hydrogen atoms to the point of nuclear fusion, we'll probably have to wait until the Cubic Devil Fruit Awakening to achieve that.
In addition, cubic compression can also produce a variety of high-strength alloys and non-metallic materials.
For example, by using the Cube-Cube Fruit to compress graphite, a large number of artificial diamonds can be produced. As long as the output is controlled, these artificial diamonds can bring a continuous stream of income to the Noah Family.
Devil Fruit can be used not only in combat, but also in production and daily life, where they can play a significant role.
Therefore, Noah left Gairam on the Storm Archipelago, making the best use of him.
If it weren't for the lack of a more suitable trump card, Noah wouldn't even want to keep Kuma, the Devil Fruit User, around.
After all, the Steel-Steel Fruit can manipulate magnetic fields and generate high heat, which would be a tremendous asset for metallurgy and machining.
However, for his own safety, Noah would naturally not leave Kuma on the Storm Archipelago. At present, the superhuman strength brought by the Steel-Steel Fruit allows him to physically withstand Admiral. Without the Steel-Steel Fruit's support, if he were ambushed by Admiral- level enemy, he might be killed in one blow.
Although the probability of Admiral- level enemy ambushing him was low, Noah did not let his guard down.
Because the World Government still has many trump cards hidden, such as the mysterious Holy Knights, the Five Elders, Imu, and the Ancient Weapon Uranus.
If the World Government manages to identify him and sends the Holy Knights to carry out a decapitation strike, then the enemy he will face will be incredibly powerful.
At this moment, each of the Apostle on one's body could potentially influence the outcome of the battle between the two sides.
Therefore, when Noah went out, he always carried Shiki and Kuma with him as his Apostle; the other Apostle were not so important.