Charles was part and parcel of the Peloran program to Uplift our industrial and fighting technologies. We all knew they couldn’t completely change our tech base in the time we had before the Shang could overwhelm us, but Charles had connections all over America and beyond. He used those connections to spread everything he learned throughout the industries that would help us stop that otherwise-inevitable result, and that helped America bootstrap ourselves through another major technological renaissance. Charles and his connections spread the new tech farther, wider, and faster than the government could on its own. They placed America in a position to launch forward into a new economic surge when The War ended, and that changed all of our worlds. Charles was integral to that effort.