A cheap, convenient, stable, and reliable means of long-distance communication, its role in the process of social development is beyond doubt. Especially at the current stage when Gawain has destroyed the old aristocratic forces in the southern borders and begun to integrate and establish the New Southern Territory, its significance is as substantial as the cannons that can dismantle the old aristocracy.
There are many factors that constrain social development, and for the rapidly expanding Cecil territory with its fast-growing population, the two biggest challenges in maintaining domination over the southern borders at this stage are transportation and communication. The ability to transport goods and people, construction capacity, the flow of information within the territory, the reaction speed of the entire governance structure, and the effectiveness of those reactions... almost all of these depend on the development of transportation and communication technology.
