"Inter-Kingdom Transportation System: Designed for smooth, efficient and cheap travel between cities. Goods can also be transported regularly, without a need of waiting for strong enough Mages to come along.
Pros:
-Easily accessible to common folk.
-Can enable two Kingdoms to share their strengths and shore up their weaknesses
-Capable of regularly transporting essential items
Cons:
-High initial setup cost
-Will result in a period of loss, as common folk cannot pay much
-Mages and Magic Portals are already accessible in most locations. Hence, financially not feasible."
A train! A damn train!
Daneel could barely control his excitement. As someone from Earth, he knew exactly how important a proper train network was.
He had actually considered this, himself, long ago, but he had discarded it due to various reasons.
Most of all, it had been too ambitious at that point.
However, now, seeing that the Emperor, himself, had been thinking about it, he saw hope.