After exploring the situation at the bottom of the valley, Perfikot returned to Eagle's Beak Cliff.
The oil discovered on the Death Valley trip is indeed important, but its significance is as the key to unlocking the Second Industrial Revolution, rather than the valley itself or the Oil Lake being crucial.
Although they do hold significant importance for the Northern Territory, it's not to the extent that Perfikot would need to drop everything and personally oversee the entire process here.
Upon returning to Eagle's Beak Cliff, Perfikot quickly received several new pieces of news, plunging her into busyness.
First, news from the Royal Academy of Sciences indicates that the scientists requested by Perfikot, as the vice president of the Royal Academy of Sciences and the dean of the Northern branch, have already departed from the empire's mainland and will arrive in the Northern Territory aboard the repaired Flying Airship.
