NationStates Jolt Archive


Delivery (Closed)

Kaukolastan
17-01-2004, 23:55
Artems Port
0300 Hours

Three superfreighters sat in the port, their silhouttes against the pre-dawn sky and the klieg lights of the tremendous dockworks. Machines and people scurried about, and large cranes lowered in the highest grade Kaukolastani steel into one of the freighters. Another was just closing up as the last of the construction equipment, retrofitted for the cold, was parked in its massive, tiered hold. The last was filled with crate after crate of high end electronics and equipment, all proofed against the cold. In these three superfreighters, there was nearly four hundred billion dollars of hardware, and all of that was a mere half of this project's cost. In the harbor, a small naval battlegroup waited, guarding these three cargo vessels. On the side of the crates carried, there was a simple logo emblazoned, five letters: MADAE.

Elk City, Dancing Moose
2400 Hours

The small flotilla waited just outside the harbor as the freighters approached. In the lead freighter, Captain Argive held the radio. "This is Captain Argive of the Kaukolastani Merchant Marines. We are requesting berths. The package is here."
Dancing Moose
18-01-2004, 06:46
Dock official #7: 'Transport Alpha 1, you are cleared for immediate docking, over. Alpha 2, follow in 2 minutes to dock #4.'

Over the next 2 hours, the biggest cranes ever constructed in the region unload the 400 billion dollars worth of equipment. General Ross, with a grateful look, stares at the gigantic superfreighters. He leans over and quietly tells his subordinate: 'Report, most honorably will the ADF finally have one of her own, MADAE has arrived. Copy this to the HQ urgent.'
Kaukolastan
18-01-2004, 08:54
Construction has begun. It will take eight years to complete. (RL, eight days.)