Northern Rangeria
29-01-2008, 01:23
KATK Research Facility
Kawnisto, Halsanki Province
Northern Rangeria
Sky was grey above the research facility, located approximately twenty kilometers south of the capital city of Halsanki. It was here that the KATK, or Kansallinen Avaruustutkimuksen Keskus, the National Centre of Space Research and Exploration, was founded not ten years earlier, on the remains of a Greater Rangerian missile base. Here Northern Rangeria had shown its desire, to rise from the ashes of war and occupation, and to reach towards the stars.
Thus far the KATK had only managed to send unmanned probes into the orbit, but today... today all that would change. On the courtyard was set a covered seating area for honoured foreign guests (mainly ambassadors from other nations), and another housed the main members of the KATK research staff. Between the two podiums, on the wind-swept tarmac, stood a podium with the royal insignia of Northern Rangeria. And towards this podium walked a single man, dressed in the grey dress uniform of the Northern Rangerian Defence Corps, the golden marks on his arms telling of high rank. This young man was the Prince himself, Mikhail IV. It was a special day indeed, for even he had arrived to this location.
He stepped behind the podium and looked around.
"Honoured guests and staff of the KATK. Today we stand at the ruins of the past, in the present, and await the dawn of a new future. On this site were once housed weapons of mass destruction and other implements of war to keep the people of Northern Rangeria down, to keep their eyes looking down into the soil to which they were bound. For the past decade, this has been the main facility of our most ingenious scientists and dreamers, looking up to the stars. Looking, and dreaming of strange new worlds from which we only hear news and rumours."
"Today Northern Rangeria reaches up to those same stars, seeking new frontiers among the celestial bodies. With the gracious help of our trusted friend, the Unified Republic of Kostemetsia, our people now reach up towards those spheres. Ladies and gentlemen... the dream has come a reality."
Kawnisto, Halsanki Province
Northern Rangeria
Sky was grey above the research facility, located approximately twenty kilometers south of the capital city of Halsanki. It was here that the KATK, or Kansallinen Avaruustutkimuksen Keskus, the National Centre of Space Research and Exploration, was founded not ten years earlier, on the remains of a Greater Rangerian missile base. Here Northern Rangeria had shown its desire, to rise from the ashes of war and occupation, and to reach towards the stars.
Thus far the KATK had only managed to send unmanned probes into the orbit, but today... today all that would change. On the courtyard was set a covered seating area for honoured foreign guests (mainly ambassadors from other nations), and another housed the main members of the KATK research staff. Between the two podiums, on the wind-swept tarmac, stood a podium with the royal insignia of Northern Rangeria. And towards this podium walked a single man, dressed in the grey dress uniform of the Northern Rangerian Defence Corps, the golden marks on his arms telling of high rank. This young man was the Prince himself, Mikhail IV. It was a special day indeed, for even he had arrived to this location.
He stepped behind the podium and looked around.
"Honoured guests and staff of the KATK. Today we stand at the ruins of the past, in the present, and await the dawn of a new future. On this site were once housed weapons of mass destruction and other implements of war to keep the people of Northern Rangeria down, to keep their eyes looking down into the soil to which they were bound. For the past decade, this has been the main facility of our most ingenious scientists and dreamers, looking up to the stars. Looking, and dreaming of strange new worlds from which we only hear news and rumours."
"Today Northern Rangeria reaches up to those same stars, seeking new frontiers among the celestial bodies. With the gracious help of our trusted friend, the Unified Republic of Kostemetsia, our people now reach up towards those spheres. Ladies and gentlemen... the dream has come a reality."