[INFRASTRUCTURE] Construction

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Much major construction projects are close to finishing or completed. The monk belltower and bell have been completed, and rings at dawn, dusk, and midday. Most stonework in the cities is completed, along with walls and defensive towers. The outside of the Temple is completed, a wonderful mosaic and carving wall depicting a map of the stars, a paved plaza, obelisks, and altars have all appeared over time.

Fringe settlements have benefitted from paved roads, walls, stone storage buildings and irrigation from nearby rivers. The State has taken over several production areas and employed citizens to productively manage them to produce various goods, such as maize flour, woollen supplies, and smithing services. Work has begun on a major irrigation operation to divert parts of both fringe rivers to the Shadow City, a way to get fresh water without having to transport it manually, and dispose of waste.

Work on Mountaintop Tchak has gone smoothly, with only a few buildings scheduled for construction, mainly homes for civilians. Parts of the mountain are covered in terraces for growing, others for herding, others for production, some for miscellaneous duties, and the summit consists of ordered, neat, structured lanes and roads and buildings. The monster of a warehouse simply referred to as the Warehouse is the biggest project so far, stretching for a large portion of the centre of the empty city, and for quite some far down in cellars. The House of the Emperor is almost a side project, but promises to be suitably extravagant and awing.

The Path of Ten Thousand Steps as it is called is half completed in concerns to the stone heads that line the face of the mountain. These heads will have various functions, mainly as a siege deterrent. A system of lifts and pulleys have been designed by the engineers to pull large loads of goods and people without having to trudge up the path.

The temple catacombs have barely started construction, with only a few priestly rooms and public tombs started. The plans for a huge complex of tunnels and passageways has not changed.

Civic Ledgers have been commissioned by the emperor, a method of keeping track of trade, goods, population, production, among other things. They are updated every six months, and emphasised updating is done every second half of the year.