Since the signing of the debt agreement a few weeks had passed, and Ragnar had returned to the heart of his industrial domain, City Titan.
General Bjorn remained within the Midlands with a security force of 5,000 contractors to ensure the West Saxons honored their payment schedule.
As for the rest of the workforce, they returned with Ragnar back to the smoke and steel of the North.
Though Nottingham had been secured, Ragnar had no plans to move his headquarters there to oversee the puppet Eadwig.
Thus, he had issued a standing order: the administration of the Midlands would flow through City Titan.
His justification was that Nottingham's infrastructure was too dilapidated from the war and needed a "structural overhaul" before it could serve as a seat of power.
For the time being, Eadwig stayed in the Governor's Mansion in Titan, under the constant surveillance of Ragnar's Iron Guard.
