Chapter 481 The Inaugural Imperial Council Meeting (part 3)
Aron turned to Nova, who was in charge of all things related to the private simulation, and asked, "How's development on the Henry's Eye system? Can it detect the mana levels in awakened?"
[Our current sensors are sensitive enough, but that's the problem-if anything, they're too sensitive. Right now, the researchers are working on filtering algorithms to discard false positives caused by pockets of higher concentrations of mana. Due to needing to be able to detect the minuscule amounts of mana emanating from the distant object the visitors are traveling on, the number of false positives we got when we turned it around and looked at Earth was ridiculous. Fifteen billion results were mislabeled as awakened humans, not including the ones that are actually undergoing the final stages of their evolutions now. And those that have already finished and woken up are so weak as to be virtually indistinguishable from the background mana density in most places. This content has its origins in n0v£lbin★
[That said, we expect them to strengthen as they gain access to more mana. Right now, their mana levels are likely low due to the aspected nature of their mana affinities and the basic mana gradient. After all, if an earth aspected awakened wants to draw earth mana, they have to compete with the entire planet, which is still absorbing mana at an almost incomprehensible rate. Once that saturation process is finished, we expect the average strength of awakeners to undergo a rapid, dramatic rise,] Nova said. She knew that Aron appreciated detailed reports when the circumstances allowed for it, and given that the empire was in a rare moment of relative peace and security, the detailed report would be best.
"Do the researchers have an estimate on how long it'll take them to develop the algorithm?"
[Next is the appointment of leaders in the imperial agencies. We already randomly assigned people to staff positions according to their fit,] Nova said, her lips twitching when she recalled Aron flipping a coin to choose ministers. [So now all that's left is to manually vet the leadership positions.] She cast a pointed glance at Jeremy, the Minister of the Interior.
"Seeing as I just came on board, I'll need some time to go through the profiles and make decisions. Just cutting down the lists was a huge help, thank you, Gaia," the young minister reported.
[Just doing my job,] she politely replied.
"How long will you need?" Aron asked.
"Two weeks, tops. That's V... uhh, I mean, simulation time." Jeremy was still used to calling it VR, while the officials referred to the private simulation simply as "the simulation". Just like how the government internally called people the awakened, or awakeners, and the public referred to them as the blessed, it demonstrated something of a gap in the amount of information available to the two groups.
"You can use a random selection method," Aron said. "All of the candidates that have passed the multiple rounds of Gaia's screening are equally viable for the positions. The only thing that really differs are practical experience and methodology, and practical experience isn't necessarily as valuable as you might think. After all, nobody has ever led groups of awakened as part of a globe-spanning empire before, so any 'practical experience' they may have in leadership positions or politics can actually be detrimental when issues crop up that are out of their understanding."