During the continental war, cannons certainly proved their usefulness. However, problems arose amid the chaos when rebel forces with ambitions to liberate their own species popped up in various imperial territories—the cannons were too slow.

Overall, the empire's regular army outnumbered the rebel forces and outperformed them in terms of technology, but in regions where a rebellion took place, the empire's conscription process would take longer compared to the rebels, who had already gathered and united for a singular purpose. And in terms of technology level, due to concerns that the rebels might acquire the empire's firearms technology, various weapons and gunpowder depots were concentrated in the central imperial regions, making it time-consuming to transport these weapons for the suppression of rebels.

As a result, the hurriedly assembled regular army often had to suppress the rebels using cold weapons, which led them to rely solely on trained soldiers.

Kyle Lak Orazen had personally devised the nationwide conscription process and military supply routes for the empire to suppress rebellions, but the results were not entirely satisfying. So Kyle nagged the Technology Minister, Rumf, about it.

Rumf...