While Ragnar and his Track-Laying Division were engaging in Operation: Iron Horse, and Bjorn was securing the perimeter at Northampton to liberate the Midlands from Luddite inefficiency, Gyda was resting in City Titan, presiding over the company's Q3 reforms.
Through the acquisition of Nottingham and the liquidation of King Burgred, she had begun incorporating the region into the Directorate's jurisdiction.
Though she did not allow for the "Mandatory Internship" of the northern population yet (as they were already paying taxes), infrastructure projects and agricultural overhauls were underway.
The sooner she got the drainage ditches dug, the sooner the land value would appreciate.
The people of Northumbria enjoyed their lives during this time of chaos, as they were well insulated from the famine and the banditry that was appearing across the Saxon world.
