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Post by Afghanistan on Sept 29, 2004 15:56:38 GMT -5
The royal advisors had been dismissed, leaving their neatly typed reports and colored diagrams spread over the king’s desk. The king looked over the meaningless jumble of facts, puffing on a cigarette filled with a foul substance that passes for tobacco. All the advisors tell him is problems. That Afghanistan is backwards, a laughing stock. That their trade is based on a thin chain of roads and rail, and that even with the new Turkish rifles and training that his military is hopeless. It suddenly dawns on him why he has elected King. No one else was stupid enough to take the job.
Current Projects
* The development of proper shells and explosive chemicals for use in Afghan’s newer artillery. Research in to improving older artillery pieces (completed)
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Post by Afghanistan on Oct 2, 2004 21:07:02 GMT -5
Current Projects- Develop a crude Maxim machinegun knock-off for production by Sikh artificers
Completed Projects- Upgraded artillery to meet modern standards.
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Post by Afghanistan on Oct 6, 2004 10:24:51 GMT -5
In a small warehouse in Kabul, the shriveled Sikh artificer sits in a stool, over looking workers at long lines of tables. They assemble specialty artillery shells, the forge in the adjoining building filling the one large room with a dull, rhythmic pounding. Dust fills the air, kicked up off of the bare floors and falling down from the aging ceiling. It is hot, dirty work and primitive to be sure, but while proper factories are being built this is what counts as Afghanistan’s industrial base.
A young apprentice runs into the shop, holding a large white cylinder of rolled paper in his hands. He begins trying to explain what is in the message, his words pouring out too fast to be made out over the noise of the workshop. The old man listens carefully and then takes the roll of paper, slipping off its binding twine deftly and slowly unrolling it. A large blue scroll, a design imprinted upon it with clean, white lines, labeled in a draftsman’s precise Arabic. Accompanying it a typed note to begin production of the new “Maxim Afghan Experiment 1” to begin field testing.
Current Projects- Improved Hotchkiss (Secret)
- Reverse Engineer 75 gun (Secret)
- Reverse Engineer Modified Fuso Class battleship
- Reconstruct Yodo Class cruiser
Completed Projects- Upgrade artillery to meet modern standards.
- Develop a Maxim machinegun knock-off (Designated MAX-1915)
- Reverse Engineer Lebel Rifle
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Post by Afghanistan on Oct 12, 2004 16:28:04 GMT -5
ENCODED TELEGRAM
TO: Theater Commander Najib Kahn
FROM: Emir of Afghanistan
Let me congratulate you on your recent victory. I have seen the numbers of French technicians captured. I hope that their interrogation will yield important technological information. As per attack Plan 9 you are to begin Project Prometheus. I am shipping you several of our own artificers and some of the foreign scientists we have hired to develop our industrial base. They should be able to piece together the details we have gathered and help in the creation and modification of French weapon systems.
God's Will Be Done.
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Post by Afghanistan on Oct 14, 2004 20:52:15 GMT -5
Encoded Telegram
To: Emir of Afghanistan
From: Science Advisor to Project Prometheus
Progress Report
Lebel prototypes are currently undergoing field tests in the hands of Indochinese troops. Recources put towards this goal are being cycled out to the non-classified projects to reproduce and produce Fuso and Yodo class ships from the reckage recovered from the Japanese fleet. I believe we might be able to increase the preformance of the Fuso class if we can do something about the excessive superstructure. Between you and me I think those Japanese are compensating for something.
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