[Admiral_Aorta]

I suppose it wasn't really expected, given my low gem income. But I had a forge lord as a pretender, and once I made the hammer of the forge lord I was making artifacts(also things like rings of wizardry for 16 pearls) at 75% discount, so I didn't really need many gems even for the very expensive items. Middle age Agartha can really be a research juggernaut with the cbm boosts, so it was easy to get to construction 6 before anyone else.