Although the Bloodfear Grand Duke, that old pirate, had made up his mind to speak in riddles, his help was the real deal.
By midnight that very night, Paula, the halfling captain, had made her decision. She was going to ride this rare wave of fortune.
So at midnight, Captain Paula brought several trusted crew members to pay a visit to the Scarlet Consul. Mirian had to crawl out of bed, get dressed, and hold a reception in the administrative compound.
This was indeed a major event.
If Paula could bring Transia more airships to convert into weapons of war, it would mean that, besides lone aerial fighters like Murphy's vampires, he would have a truly useful air force as well.
Some idealistic players in the manufacturing industry had already begun organizing in private to build wooden planes, but Murphy obviously didn't have the time to wait for them to retrace the history of aviation.
According to the theories put forward on the forums by some mysterious big shots, even with technical support from the real world, the players' current skills and resources wouldn't make it easy to recreate a World War I-era plane in Transia.
Especially when Ouni-chan had a complete set of blueprints, yet still hadn't managed to build a single internal combustion engine after two months.
Ouni-chan might not look reliable, but he was a professional engineer, and a certified one at that! If even a specialist like him couldn't manage it, expecting the players to brainstorm their way into building a plane was clearly unrealistic.
Transia's industrial base was far too weak. The arms factory could operate smoothly only because Governor Murphy had "robbed" industrial equipment from all over the place. Expecting that handful of machines to complete industrialization was pure fantasy.
Under the circumstances, getting