Because it was already late, Eldest Princess Annie did not travel back to the city at night but stayed overnight at Brandelis Manor.
For her, this was not the first time; when Perfikot's mother was still alive, she was a frequent visitor to this manor.
However, after Perfikot's mother died three years ago, Perfikot dismissed the manor's servants and refused all noble social interactions, resulting in Annie's visits becoming less frequent.
Nonetheless, she was very familiar with Brandelis Manor and did not experience any discomfort staying overnight there, quickly falling into a peaceful sleep under the serving of the maid puppet.
Tired after a full day, even with her extraordinary physique, she was a bit overwhelmed.
As Eldest Princess Annie fell into a deep sleep, Perfikot was adjusting her plans. With the Royal Family's support, the situation she faced was entirely different, rendering her original plans obsolete.
For starters, just the Royal Shipyard, and the Royal Alchemy Workshop under the Royal Family's name, could provide significant help to Perfikot.
Lacking cold-resistant materials? You could commission the Royal Alchemy Workshop to manufacture them or hire scholars from the universities established or sponsored by the Royal Family to conduct research.
Lacking a Flying Airship? Just have the Royal Shipyard produce them. With three large shipyards for building cruisers, at least five large Flying Airships could be constructed within nine months.
As for finding suitable locations for shelter construction on the New Continent? Although the Imperial Exploration Company does not bear the royal title, it remains a Royal Family enterprise and possesses quite detailed exploration data of the New Continent.
Even the construction of shelters can be entirely met by the Royal Family's building company, steel company, and mining company, as they have branches in the colonies on the New Continent.
It must be said, in an era where imperial power is solid, the resources mobilizable under the Royal Family are astonishing.
However, under normal circumstances, the Royal Family would not easily mobilize these enterprises to do anything, as the revenues from these enterprises are crucial for maintaining the Royal Family's daily expenses. Should any issue arise requiring a reduction in the Royal Family's expenses, it would be very serious.
Furthermore, with the Empire's political reform, the nation has already developed from a sole emperor to a parliamentary democracy stage. If the Royal Family overly emphasizes its presence, causing too much uproar, it would not be favorable for the parliament.
They would jump out furiously to oppose, even if those assets belong solely to the Royal Family.
But now... Perfikot unfolded the document personally written by the Empress. It explicitly stated the Empress's appointment of Perfikot as the Royal Family's plenipotentiary envoy, responsible for overseeing and advancing the "Arctic Expedition" project, able to utilize all resources under the Royal Family's name.
For this, the Empress even specially granted her the title of a baroness to facilitate her actions.
"With these, my original plan can be revived." Perfikot retrieved a document from a hidden drawer of the desk; this was the plan she drafted to cope with the disaster before being mocked by the Noble Council.
At that time, Perfikot was ambitious, hoping to leverage the entire Empire's power to combat the disaster, rescue more ordinary people, and, after weathering the initial phase of the cataclysm, strive to end the disaster's source to save the entire world.
However, the mockery from the Noble Council made her acutely aware that wanting humanity to unite is an ordeal harder than ascending to heaven.
So, after that, Perfikot abandoned her original salvation plan, focusing her mind solely on surviving.
Now, with full support from the Royal Family, she could modify her original salvation plan, increasing its feasibility while aligning it more with current realities.
"Cold-resistant materials and quick assembly... seems to be lacking something?" Perfikot scratched her chin with the quill pen's end, furrowing her brows slightly: "Ah! Remember now! It's insulation materials! Apart from being able to build quickly in cold environments, houses also need effective insulation!"
In temperatures several tens of degrees below zero, if the house can't insulate, it might as well be an ice cellar.
"Insulation materials can also be developed by commissioning those scientists and alchemists collectively. I remember humans developed insulation materials like aerogel and honeycomb foam structure before my crossing? Whatever it is, let those scientists and alchemists rack their brains!" As Perfikot said this, her pen continued to revise some details on the plan.
Yet, after noting this point, Perfikot seemed to fall into difficulty and hesitation again.
"Food, clothing, housing, and transportation, now I can solve 'transportation', 'housing' can be handed over to recruited scientists and alchemists, next is 'clothing' and 'food'." Perfikot muttered as she placed the quill pen back in the ink bottle.
The issues with clothing and food are akin to the other two, both needing solutions for cold resistance and warmth.
If a material could be developed for use both as building skin and for clothing manufacture, it would effectively solve most problems surrounding food, clothing, housing, and transportation.
Of course, relying on one material to resolve various aspects concerning food, clothing, housing, and transportation is impractical.
Overall, in terms of solution approaches, the resolution schemes for these issues align; all must achieve the singular purpose of cold resistance and warmth.
"So, the first step is to research cold-resistant materials?" Perfikot continued to write on the paper; she wasn't too worried in this regard.
This world is different from the one she crossed from; while overall world progress on both sides is not too disparate, the presence of extraordinaries and alchemy in this world leads to significant differences in many specific details between the two.
For instance, in the development of material science, Perfikot's previous world primarily relied on advancements in material science and related researchers' "trial and error".
But in this world, how about understanding alchemy?
As long as it doesn't violate the principle of equivalent exchange, alchemists can accomplish many incredible things, and the performance of alchemic materials themselves is remarkably absurd.
If not for the exorbitant costs of alchemy, utterly incomparable to post-industrial mass production with its skyrocketing productivity and efficiency, the achievements this world could accomplish would far surpass the world Perfikot came from.
"In this case, first commission... no, it should be reorganized into a separate research group, specifically responsible for developing new materials." Perfikot finally made up her mind, deciding to first gather a group of scientists and alchemists under the Royal Family's name, and then have them research what she desired.