Direct insertion versus Overflow

"That surely took much longer than I anticipated…"

From the time and effort Theo needed to actually build the whole thing, the few moments he took to solve the issue of his seemingly endless exhaustion, all the way to then… going straight back into the hole to connect all the generators to a single power grid and then extending it through the same tunnel Theo used to lay down the fuel belts…

"Still, for a power-oriented project, there were still far fewer complications than what one would normally encounter."

There was a limit to human focus, a limit to how long they could keep focused, build everything in the perfectly correct way, not miss a single element, a single connection, a single belt…

That's why, in factory-building games Theo could remember, there were actually three phases to building any project that was even slightly on a bigger scale.

The first phase was to just build it and see if it worked in any capacity.