[X] [BLOOD] Empire (Canal linking the Urskoy and Lynsk)
[X] [ULTHUAN] Cooperation
Yep, the canal satisfies most of my criteria, and my concerns are somewhat hypothetical. I do assume that the non-specificity will give Boris the most freedom in how he accomplishes it. I don't consider it a requirement that Kislev foot the entire bill or do all of the work, getting the Empire to do some of it would be fine in my eyes, but Kislev has to actually commit the resources and make the offers. Also don't consider it urgent. Literally most of the risk my brain is seeing is the idea that he will have to pull away from his higher priorities of military buildup in order to do this huge infrastructure project that'll only pay off in the long term and for now is digging a hole in his treasury.
Also, yeah Cooperation feels like a forced move from a zoomed out perspective, we have paid truly insane opportunity costs in order to pull this Project together and bring every possible source of expertise onto the table, because we are the only person who could do that. Many of our reward votes have funneled everything towards making this work. So solving a pretty major foreign policy snafu in the Empire's favor, or just giving every stakeholder enough money to truly make up for their respective investments, both of those things are just more opportunity costs we all gotta shoulder for the pipe dream of improving the Waystone Network.